Most people reschedule when it starts pouring on their family session day. John and Alysha? They leaned in. We had originally planned a typical family shoot, but when the skies opened up over Towne Lake in McKinney, TX, instead of calling it off, we decided to make the rain part of the story. Out came the rain boots, jackets, and the best kind of "why not?" attitude.

Some of the best family sessions don’t feel like sessions at all—they just feel like real life, but documented. That’s exactly what it was like hanging out with this family, on a warm summer evening at The Snowcone Lady in Frisco, TX.

Some sessions just feel like summer. Warm air, golden light, that perfect kind of wind that makes you want to run barefoot through the grass. That’s exactly what it was like the evening I met up with Nishi and Patrick and their two kids Maverick & Wilder at Arbor Hills Nature Preserve in Plano, Texas.

Family Photos at Arbor Hills, Plano TX | The Campbells

Documentary-style family photo session on their own farmland in McKinney, Texas.