Golding twins - phase two and three

As mentioned in this post: http://suzyophotography.blogspot.com/2011/05/golding-twins.html, these darling little children are turning EIGHT this year!

I was hired by their mother to document their eighth year of life. Here are the delightful images from phase 2 (their school images, taken in late May), and phase 3 (gymnastics! taken earlier this week).

I'm starting with the gym pictures, because I just LOVE they way they turned out.

Below is BG on the uneven bars. We did a similar shot of her older sister, K, about 18 months ago. (In fact, the image taken of K won an honorable mention in a child portrait contest!) Whoot!

BG did a GREAT job for this take.

The "chalk" (sp?) shot was his coach's idea. Sweet!

Look at those arm muscles already in the works!

When we shot the below two images, I originally didn't like the way the ceiling reflected the light, so I had B's coach hold a gobo. Once I got the picture in post, I realized I LOVED the ceiling, so I brought up the contrast a bit in photoshop. 

Merisa, here is your 'rope' shot! It turned out great! (And here is another one of the kids being silly at the end of the shoot!)

 For phase two, we went to their school to capture the story of their love of education. The school was celebrating "Shakespeare" week, so some of the kids were dressed up as if they were from that time era.

What is school without recess?

For PE, the girl's class played a game called "sharks and lifeguards." All of the children sat in a circle, and there was a parachute over their legs. A few kids were selected to be the "sharks" and try to pull the other kids under the parachute, and a few others were the "lifeguards" trying to prevent the kids from getting pulled under. I've never heard so many kids squeal so loud! ;-)

The above images were my favorite series of the entire school shoot. They thought I was taking a few test shots...really I was shooting the entire time. I'm not sure what they were talking about, but I'd guess it to be that one of them had a little problem with a barking spider. (Ha ha ha!) 

What is a barking spider you ask? It's my mother's polite way of saying "passing gas." (Love you, mom!) 

Enjoy!

Suzy Oliveira
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