Connecticut Photographer | Carla Ten Eyck Photography| Carla Ten Eyck Photography

Not only do I love my job, but I love the people that I work with. How many people do you know that love both? I consider myself lucky, blessed, honored and just plain old PSYCHED to be able to say this!

Many of you know Katie Slater, an incredibly talented associate photographer with the studio. Well Miss Katie is quite the family portrait photographer and she had the brilliant idea of having a Studio Family Portrait day. Meaning that we would all converge on the studio, smartly dressed families in tow and have a day of shooting each other’s families! Now for me, I was excited to be able to really promote the photographer’s that shoot for the studio- because really, what better way to see how they are with clients than by being the client yourself! But the other bonus / bad thing about being a photographer- you take great photos of other people’s families but more often than not, have none of your own family to show!

Another added bonus: all of us being able to spend time with our families and our work families- a combination that is so rare I can’t say that it has ever happened before!

And was still incomplete- (Mike’s family was sick so they couldn’t make it, but we all missed you guys!)

The cherry on top? The amazing Catie Bane from Dana Bartone & Co. came to do the ladies makeup! Talk about feeling like a superstar….. BIG huge thanks to Miss Catie and her amazing talent!!

So I started with our studio manager and BFF from 30 years back, Dominique and her family

Dominique and her little girl Seyenah are tight like tigers

The Slater Family! They rocked my picnic table something fierce

Then a mini breakdown: Katie and Charlie

and Chris and Jack! These guys have blue eyes to spare in this family!!

Rocking my old brown couch in my old brown back yard

Then a little time for some one on one. Oh and me. I was there too.

Enter the Scobey Family! Check out Little Evie’s smile!!! Graham is our associate photographer and Ashley is in training as well! They are the Scobey Dynamic Duo!

Then came the Maziarz Family! Ta-DA!

Miss Caroline is just the sweetest little lady, I couldn’t get enough

More Maziarz love

Smirk-a-licious! Hi Erik! Look at the camera!! He loves that

Look at me trying to take credit for this shot!! My bad, it is Erik’s shot, of my little Miss Georgie and Dominique’s Little Miss Seyenah, they are so like us, BFF’s!!

I couldn’t help but snag a shot of my girl running with the balloons that Mike brought!!

Stay tuned for the mega blog post of how all of these amazing photographers saw my crazy family!!! I am SO excited about them all, I can’t wait to share them with everyone!!

XOXOXOXOX