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Summer Family Portrait Session At The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden by Bradley Hanson

Just as a do with wedding photographs, I prefer to approach my family portraits naturally, letting things unfold spontaneously and candidly rather than directing the action or running everyone through the same poses you can find ad nauseam on Pinterest. This session was two families, sisters who each had children.

We met on a hot, humid Minneapolis day at the Sculpture Garden near the Walker Art Center. I just let their children play and took photographs. We then walked to my favorite portrait spot, an art installation built into the steep hill by the art museum that has a huge skylight and the most beautiful, universally flattering portrait light.

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Late Autumn Family Portrait Mini-Session In Minneapolis by Bradley Hanson

We’ve been having mild weather in Minneapolis and decided to use the opportunity to take some quick family portraits of my wife Jackie and I with our youngest son, Oliver, at sunset. Traffic was a little more congested than expected, but we arrived just as the sun was hitting the horizon. This left us with about 15-20 minutes to try a few things. As always, anything involving our son Oliver was a mix of fun and adventure.

These are in relatively chronological order as the light temperature kept evolving. Just before it got dark, the gray sky had deep background pockets of pink and orange.

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