"You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing.  What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again."

I read an article a few months back.  It was about photographing children and particularly children between the ages of 11 and 16. It was noted this is the least professionally photographed age of boys (girls too), yet probably the most interesting and the best time to capture emerging personalities. So why do we skip this age?  Senior photos are 5-7 years away, we can wait? School photos are good enough? Who knows, but for me it's not good enough.  So, I took it upon myself to gather these 4 boys and take them on their own personal photo shoot.  They have done this before and really LOVE it. Don't be fooled, boys do like getting their picture taken.  It's a fact.  I remember way back when, my dad had a favorite photo of me.  I was 11 and in junior high with large teeth, round face and a big, pink, silly bow on the top of my head.  I could not understand why it was his favorite.  He just loved it.  Later on, I realized It was something about that age, still innocent but funny and intriguing all at the same time. I look at it 30 years later, and he was right.  I get it now.  Such a wonderful age, it cannot be missed.  So crooked, large teeth, bad hair baubles, pimples and all, I'm not going to miss one single stage again.  I hope you won't either.  You can find this photo shoot under the tabs: galleries,kids,cousins.