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Posted on October 29, 2010

And my last mini-session to post…..

E & S are two of my girls’ best friends on the block. They play, they fight, they giggle, and they get REALLY excited when they see each other. It has been so fun and enjoyable to get to know this family and again, to have such wonderful, wonderful neighbors in our new hometown!

Posted on October 28, 2010

The B & P families are neighbors and good friends. And they are in my neighborhood, too! And man, these kiddos are waaaaay too cute for words. So I will let the images speak for me. Get ready to “oooh” and “ahhh” at the cuteness! It was great meeting you all and I hope we connect again in the ‘hood! Blessings to you all this fun fall/holiday season!!

First up, the B family:

And the P family….

Posted on October 27, 2010

Great to meet the L family… another family from the ‘hood. Miss M was fun to watch interact with her parents… and fun to see her enjoying the playground even at 12 years old. Hey, if I wasn’t 8 months preggo and had any amount of bicept strength left, I would be hanging on the monkey bars too. Life is too short to run away from youthfulness. It was great meeting you, L family, and I hope Miss M can indeed babysit sometime!

And meet Mark and Sarah… adorable couple. They informed me they were not photogenic. I beg to differ!!  They have such a natural comfortableness with each other, a lovely thing to photograph… I guess that comes with knowing someone for 15 years! Blessings to you guys as you get married this next year! I wish you the very best!

Posted on October 25, 2010

Meet the awesome K family. Another neighbor-turned-friend in record time. Their daughter, little Miss B, is simply ADORABLE. And I love love love how well the three of them just FIT together. I don’t know how else to say it. So. Stinking. Cute. K’s, I am SO happy this worked out for us all this weekend! We are very thankful to discover neighbor friends like you guys!

Posted on October 25, 2010

Whew – what a day! What a GORGEOUS day with gorgeous families and kids and couples. It couldn’t have gone better. I will be adding a few single and combined posts as I process the images…

Meet the V family. A D O R A B L E. And we are neighbors. As in we can stare into each other’s houses. Two year old E and my Sydney are pals. Such a sweet family and I am so blessed to have friends like these guys living in the neighborhood!

Posted on October 24, 2010

Ah, what can I say…. I love my job. I get to meet fabulous people, adorable kiddos and capture precious memories and moments for families. And we get to do it all while playing at a park. Yup, I do love my “job.”

The “L” family had the most adorable daughters… who reminded me of the dark haired-dark eyed versions of my two girlies. The girls (and parents) were fabulous subjects.. and incredibly easy and fun to work with. It was so nice to meet you all…. hope we run into each other again at the park sometime! I think our daughters would have a blast playing together!

Mr. E is an adorable 21 month old with expressions and personality galore. My favorite moment is when he started mimicking his mom saying “come on honey!” It was precious! The light was simply delicious towards the end of the session. Mr. E was a blast to chase around and capture on camera!

Posted on October 22, 2010

I love these two so very much. Seeing them enjoy moments, days, experiences (playing at the park on this fabulous fall day in this case) brings so much joy to this momma’s heart and soul.

It has just hit me the last week or so that my “baby”, Sydney, is not going to be THE baby much longer. She’s about to move into big-sisterhood and that is a change that is leaving me feeling quite emotional and nostalgic lately.

I find that my camera is focussed on her more these days… remembering, documenting, capturing these last weeks of her “babyhood.” When the actual baby in my belly joins us, and we become “Hudson, party of 5,” and Sydney becomes a big sister and a little sister all at once, and Adelaide puts on her “mommy hat.” (whether i like it or not) and life just morphs overnight… I will be excited. But I will miss the “Hudson, party of 4″ days as well. And my photographs of our family living and enjoying life together will bring me back to these days and memories. And I will smile. Maybe cry a little. Probably think, “wow…. it was so much easier managing two kids vs. three…. but oh, isn’t #3 just so DANG cute?!” Or something like that.

But mainly, I just want to remember today. And tomorrow. And yesterday.

Posted on October 16, 2010

What a joy it was to be able to document this super fun couple’s wedding. Sean is one of our good friends from college days at John Brown University in Arkansas. We (my husband and I) have had some fun adventures with Sean in years past (can you say road trip to Denmark and Sweden??!). Just about everyone at the wedding had had some “adventure” with Sean in years past. It was a blast to hear the stories and nearly cry laughing so hard. Ashley is a doll and seems to be Sean’s perfect mate, for sure… calm, steady, fun, simple, beautiful. Sean is an MK (missionary kid) from Zambia and his and Ashley’s heart is to return to Africa at some time to serve people there with their recently acquired medical expertise. Sean and Ashley are both doctors. Well, Sean graduated from med school a week before the wedding, and Ashley is well on her way in med school. Their plan is to return to Africa at some point in the near future to practice medicine there. In fact, instead of wedding favors, they donated the money that would have been spent on the favors to establish a scholarship fund for a group of kids they recently worked with in a remote village in Zambia. Yup, thats the caliber of couple they are. I am blessed to know such as these.

The wedding couldn’t have been more beautiful. Simple elegance. The fall colors on Lake Weddington were a perfect backdrop. Ashley and her family are incredibly creative and the colors, flowers, accessories all drew out the fall colors in God’s beautiful creation around them.

The wedding was also full of surprises. Planned surprises… from the choreographed (by a friend of the bride) dance the newly wed couple and the wedding party danced out of the ceremony, to the “interview” Sean’s brother recorded (unbeknownst to Sean) and played at the reception (think: two white boys speaking and acting out an “interview” in Zambian english about Sean finding himself a wife, his first trip to Victoria’s Secret etc.) and the grand finale of Sean “faking” car trouble in the get-away car only to surprise his lovely bride with a limo ride to the honeymoon instead.

What a blessing and privelege it was to be the photographer for Sean and Ashley. You guys are the best! I wish you the BEST and am so thrilled to see how God uses you both here and in Africa in the coming years to bless so many others. Hope our paths cross again either on this or that side of the Atlantic!

Instead of posting all of my favorite pics, I will direct you to their slideshow below, and also my Chelsea Hudson Photography Facebook Album of these “preview” images HERE. (if you want to comment or tag yourself in the photos, just “like” my photography fan page and then comment away! )

Posted on October 7, 2010

Because of the chaos and stress of moving, being hugely pregnant with kid #3 and so on, I have been going back and forth about whether or not to take on any photography work for the rest of the year. But after talking to some neighbors recently, I decided to offer a weekend of mini-sessions this month. Its just too beautiful out there and I just want everyone I know to get some fun and memorable photos of their families as the holidays approach us.

So alas, here is the deal-i-o. Getty Park is here in Silver Spring, less than a mile from the Beltway on Georgia Ave. Spaces are definitely limited and will be filled on a first come-first serve basis (upon receipt of a non-refundable retainer fee and signed contract), so contact me ASAP if you are interested in booking your time slot!

Posted on October 6, 2010

We are certainly loving it here on the east coast this fall… the rain, the chilly air, the turning leaves do my soul good. I have been trying to get out into nature with my girls as much as possible… even if “nature” is the playground and park fields across the street from our house. And photographing fall colors wherever I can find them is one of my all time favorite things to do!

So here’s to fall, folks, in all its glory!

practicing the higher reach for a couple of upcoming apple picking adventures!

this is how i FEEL about fall…

and here’s to fall’s static air at the playgrounds! good times… even better photo op’s!