Porter Family - Family Session

For as long as I can remember, I have always had the best of luck photographing young kiddos. I might need to give my nieces and nephews credit for that because I practiced on their cute-as-a-button faces whenever I had the opportunity. I have been taking photos professionally for probably 5 or 6 years now, and I always enjoy whenever kiddos are a part of my photoshoot. They are spontaneous and unfiltered. They are themselves. What’s not to love?

My friend hired me to take her family’s photos, and once again, I got to meet some pretty awesome kids with amazing, unique personalities. They were just cool kids that I’d hang out with and have a Harry Potter marathon. It was my absolute pleasure to take their photographs.

Heath - Portrait Session

After delays due to weather and illness, I was finally able to take my friend’s son’s senior photos. Mother Nature hasn’t necessarily been my friend lately. Even on Sunday, we had to battle some high winds during the photo shoot. Nevertheless, we powered through and created some magic! Heath, you were an absolute pleasure.

Amy - Portrait Session

Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of helping my friend update her professional headshot. When I got there, the weather was not really on our side. Luckily, we didn’t need much in way of location to make magic happen.

Carissa - Portrait Session

This past weekend, I had the absolute pleasure of photographing a coworker of mine at North Park. I initially thought I wanted to take pictures by the North Park Boathouse, or around the lake. At the last minute, I decided to meet Carissa at the Wetlands. The weather was perfect, and the surroundings were ideal.

Senior Pet & Animal Rescue

Recently, I had the absolute pleasure and honor of taking pictures for a charity calendar to benefit the Senior Pet & Animal Rescue. I’ve taken pictures for the charity before, but in a different capacity. I took pictures of several doggos in foster homes in the hopes a future adopter would be drawn to their picture/profile.

This calendar was a different project, but the end goal was the same: help senior pets. All the proceeds from the calendar go toward the Senior Pet & Animal Rescue organization, and I didn’t accept a dime.

Take a look at some of my favorite pictures from the handful of shoots I had for this project! So far, we have sold out the initial order of calendars, and I believe the organization is ordering more. This will be one of the most successful fundraisers for Senior Pet & Animal Rescue - how amazing is that?!?

Chippy

I have had the absolute pleasure of taking pictures of dog, cats and recently, chickens. Well, I can now add an adorable DONKEY to this list. How incredibly lucky am I? 

Y'all, meet Chippy. Her full name is Mocha Chocolate Chip Frappucino, but they call her Chippy. Squee. She is so adorable and loving. When the family photo shoot was over, she even posed for some selfies with me. While I am still a crazy dog lady, I'm pretty sweet on donkeys now. They are cute! 

Look at that face! <3

Chippy!

Viva la Chippy!

Chicks, Man. Chicks.

Recently, I had the pleasure of taking family photographs for Sylvia and Brian, runner friends of mine. I have long said that my favorite things to photograph are children and dogs. Well, let's add chickens to that list now! 

While I have a bit of a bird phobia (don't judge me), I can't say that also applies to chickens. They are beautiful and unique creatures. I am glad Sylvia and Brian gave me the opportunity to take pictures of their beloved chickens. They were a blast! (The humans weren't bad, either.)

Tammy & Steve

Animal Rescue League

Once again, I had the opportunity to take photographs of dogs who need forever homes at Animal Rescue League this week.  I wish my schedule allowed me to do this every week, but I will take any chance I can get.  Here are my two favorite shots from the night.  

Rudette is a shy GSD, but once she warmed up to you, then you are golden.

This fella has striking eyes.  It was impossible to take a bad picture of my boy, Bruce.

Sweet, sweet baby

It is a special moment when you can capture a dear friend from college radiate love to her newborn.  Little Baby C is a sweet baby boy, and I selfishly wish his parents decide to move back to Pittsburgh.

Animal Rescue League

Several weeks ago, I had the extreme pleasure to take my trusty camera with me to Pittsburgh's Animal Rescue League.   This particular has a special place in my heart because that's where I adopted my Mal pup in 2012.  

A good friend of mine, who is as dog-crazy as me, volunteers at the Animal Rescue League every Wednesday.  I had my camera with me at work on this particular Wednesday, so after I clocked out, I marched on over to the shelter.  I wanted to take pictures of shelter dogs who needed a picture for their Petfinder profile.  People are more likely to inquire about a pet if they have a nice, professionally-done photograph, than one depicting them as scared and sad (read more).

In a period of one hour, I was able to take pictures of five dogs with the assistance of my friend and another Animal Rescue League volunteer.

All images copyright 2015 Lara K Huffman Photography. 

All images copyright 2015 Lara Huffman Photography. 

All images copyright 2015 Lara Huffman Photography. 

All images copyright 2015 Lara K. Huffman Photography. 

All images copyright 2015 Lara K. Huffman Photography. 

I am happy to say that all the dogs you see here have since been adopted.  I don't know if my photos played a part.  If they did, then that's awesome.  All that matters, though, is that they all have found their furever homes.