What a wonderful treat to spend my morning photographing the O’Brien Family.  In the center is mom & dad, John & Rosalie who’s birthday was the whole idea behind getting everyone together and having a birthday party and to have this American Family Portrait.  There are six family in all, with 30 people total, what a big family.  It was a challenge to bring everyone together I know, even so to get them like this for this portrait.  My assistant David and I took about 20 minutes setting our gear together and another 15 minutes to get them all in their places and another 5 getting them sound with vibrant attention,  30 seconds later the work is done.   After this big group photo we broke into individual family group photos which I plan to post them in the coming days. Kendra 4 spots to the right from Rosalie is graduating and so is her brother Bradley (next to her) so we spent some time taking portraits for their  Senior Year announcements. What a beautiful family!  A big thanks to my friend David Vevia for assisting me this morning.

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