Dancing with Giordano Stars

This was my third year photographing Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago super fun benefit, a ballroom dance competition, Dancing with the Giordano Stars. This year's event was held at the Park West allowing the dancers to perform on a fully lit stage (making it awesome to photograph as well). As always, everyone did an amazing job!

The Contestants & The Giordano Dancers

Teresa Carso / Robert Mckee
Dirk Degenaars / Lindsey Leduc Brenner
Desiree Denoyer / Zachary Heller
Rob Gallay/ Maeghan McHale
Lisa Huff / Martin Ortiz Tapia
Karl Leinberger / Meredith Schultz
Susan Lichtenstein / Cesar G. Salinas
David Prange / Ashley Lauren Smith
Temple Seigler / Joshua Blake Carter
Max Suzenaar / Lindsey LaFountain

Avery at Olive Park - Chicago Children's Photographer

On one of the last warm fall days I got a chance to hang out with the adorable Avery. She needed a little bit of time to ease into the session and then we got to have a lot of fun. I'm guessing her favorite part was at the end when we got into the lake and splashed around.

Our new nieces - Graycin & Reese - Newborn Photographer

We flew to Denver a few weeks ago to meet our new nieces - Reese and Graycin. My brother-in-law and his wife had identical girls in September. We spent the weekend cooking and taking pictures. Well, J did all the cooking... I tried really hard to tell them apart all weekend, with no luck. Conveniently, they have colored bracelets on to tell them apart for now. At one point we removed both bracelets for the photo shoot. I'm pretty sure we put the bracelets back on correctly :-)

Here are a few of my favorites (yes, I have a lot of favorites) Can't wait to see them when they visit for Christmas in a couple of weeks!

Yes, Graycin, I see you are done with the pictures at this point :-)

Hey, sis, you sleeping?

The V brothers - They look pretty good holding an itty bitty, right?