Ahhh! Sunflower season is upon us and it is OH. SO. BEAUTIFUL! I had originally been on the hunt for a flax field the past couple weeks, but hadn't seen anything on my drives around town, so I had ventured out about 50 minutes from home trying to find something. My friend Allison, decided to tag along with her girls, just in case. We get to where I thought a field might be, but no flax. Lots of dirt roads and canola though. We had driven all that way, so we decided to go ahead and do a few pictures anyway and man, those girls really know how to work a camera!

OH yeah! And we saw these adorable patches of sunflowers on the side of the road, so I knew that those fields would be blooming soon.

The next day I went to a going away luncheon, and was telling some friends of the adventure the previous evening. Krissi pipes up, saying there is a flax field near her house and shows me some pictures she had taken a few weeks earlier. I guess I should've talked to her first! After lunch, I go to check out the field, but it was at the end of its blooming season. Bummer! BUT across the road was a sunflower field with just a handful of blooms sprinkled in it. Lightbulb!

I head home and started trying to find out who owns the property. With my husband's help, I had a few names to work off of and a few days later, I went to the county clerk's office to see if I could obtain contact information. They are able to narrow down who the land owner is, but not any contact information other than their current address, which isn't local. I hop on the google machine and find 4 phone numbers and two email addresses for the owners. Two numbers are out of service, one just rings continuously, and the other is a wrong number. So I sent an email to the two email addresses and one of them gets kicked back. Alrighty then.

Feeling like I'm out of options, I take one last chance and knock on the door to a neighboring property. Turns out she is the owner's sister and gives me permission to use the field! Yay! I tell her I'll be out there every so often and then head to an antique shop to grab an old ladder and chair for props. 

That evening, I take my boys out to start testing out the lighting and where I want to setup my "stations" and my boys did not let me down. These are some of my favorite images of them! They both love being outside and Emerson loves to be up high, so being on a ladder was making his day! I also may have bribed them with ice cream...

And then I invited Krissi and her husband to let me do some more tester shots at sunset and once again, not disappointed. 

I also had a new friend and assistant, Jarany, join me. She spotted the boys while they were up on the ladder, moved my props around, gave creative input for posing and prompts, and was forced to be included as well. And after I got back home, I had an email from the land owner giving me written permission to use the field. It really was my lucky day!

This minis are going to be gorgeous and perfect for getting in those family photos before the craziness of the school year begins. (Where did summer go anyway??!) Click here to grab a mini session this weekend!