For our 5 year anniversary, instead of swapping gifts we splurged on a family session with Emily Turner during our trip to Hawaii. We booked the session for the late afternoon to take advantage of the "golden hour", it also gave us all morning to wander and explore Waikiki. The drive from Waikiki to North Shore was just under an hour and along the way we passed the Dole plantation with it's unending fields of pineapples as well as some fruit stands with their beautiful display of whole and cut up fruit. The contrast between the busy city streets of Waikiki and the quiet roads of North Shore are stark and I loved it. Our favorite game to play while driving was spot the chicken. There were so many wild chicken aka Hey Hey's roaming around! I did my hair and make up at the hotel but we all changed into our photo shoot outfits in the car on the side of the road which was an adventure in itself.
Emily is such a gifted photographer and she made us feel at ease while we trekked through the forest and along Turtle Bay on Oahu's North Shore. We love her photography style and the way she captured our interactions. She encouraged us to act normally and to engage and explore our surroundings. That wasn't hard to do as we found ourselves immersed in a forest of hanging vines and old banyan trees as soon as we took the path down from the road. By the water, there were interesting rock formations, groves of coconut trees and Parker's favorite, crabs!
Booking a photography session while on a trip is something I highly recommend if you can swing it. You'll always have lovely photos to look back on and we ended up using these photos for our 2017 holiday cards as well. Thank you, Emily, for capturing these moments for us. They are some of the few photos we took the entire trip because we were consciously trying to live in the moment and not be on our phones. Going through all the photos again makes me want to go back to Hawaii!
On Tuan
Ezekiel Macaw Shirt
J Crew Chinos
Rainbow Sandals
On Mary
ASOS Lace Cold Shoulder Dress
J Crew Sandals
On Parker
Splendid V Neck Tee
Old Navy Chinos
Tevas Sandals
[Fun fact: they filmed parts of Pirates of the Caribbean and Jumanji in this forest.]
[You can't even tell we got ready in the rental car on the side of the road.]
[This was the photo we used for our Christmas cards.]
[This so perfectly captures us! HAHA]
[Oh hey! I stepped into a postcard.]
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