The last place we stopped before heading home was Cape Elizabeth, Maine to take in Portland Head Lighthouse. Aside from Nubble Light (Cape Neddick), this is the prettiest lighthouse I’ve ever seen. What’s cool about it, unlike Nubble, is that you can get right up close to it. It’s awesome. The lighting (for pics with the kids anyway) was extremely harsh thus not making perfect photos and the wind was approximately 30mph constant while we were there. We will definitely be going back to this lighthouse for another visit, maybe even in the winter.

DISCLAIMER: I should’ve added this with the first post but almost all of the photos taken while we were on vacation were taken by the REAL photographer in the family – Joey.

A gorgeous shot on a gorgeous day.

 An artsy-fartsy shot – my idea, Joe took the shot. I couldn’t go crawling around on the ground with a broken foot.

 Maddie looking at the lighthouse.

 Lexi, Maddie, Nate

 Nate, Maddie, Lexi

 Maddie blowing the fuzzy dandelion – or at least trying to!

 Lexi trying to blow her fuzzies!

 The girls running in the open field next to the lighthouse.

 Nate just taking a minute to himself.

After we took portraits at the beach, we headed to Hampton Beach to take some sea wall photos, something we’ve done almost every year since Nate was born. One of these days, I’ll dig up all the sea wall photos we have and make up storyboard comparisons for you to see.

The wind was pretty strong and the sun pretty bright but all in all I really like these shots.

 Lexi pushing the hair away from her face.

 Maddie

 Maddie looking peaceful.

 The girls…Maddie left, Lexi right.

Natey – one of my favorite photos of the trip.

 More Natey

 The three heathens…

One of my maine (yes a little pun) objectives of going to Maine was to get some family portraits at the beach. Like I mentioned before, Ariana’s weekly family shots really inspired me to get more family pics. I think back from when I was a kid and I think we only had family shots done once or twice. Granted, it was a bit more difficult back then before the digital camera age…and it helps to have a photographer in the family.

Anyway, it was really sunny and bright the morning we went to take these, thus all the squinting by everyone. Still, I really loved the way they came out. You’d never tell that the kids (especially my Natey) were not enjoying the photography session. We tried to give them breaks to run around but we were fighting ol’ Mother Nature as a storm was about to come rolling in.

Here are my favorites from this beach, York’s Long Sands.

The girls

 Me and my boy!

 Daddy and his girls.

 Daddy and the kidlets!

 Father and son

I love this one – looks like Nate is keeping track of his sisters!

 I was really hoping for a better shot on this one (one where Nate was giving a good smile) but they bored VERY easily on this one and this was the ONLY shot with all 3 of them on the chair.

 Lexi found this log half buried in the sand and the kids actually cooperated for this one a little bit.

 This was one of the times we let them run around. I love it because Lexi’s feet are actually off of the ground (can see if better if you click on the photo to make it bigger).

Coming up in the next installment of our Maine vacation, MORE portraits! This time from Hampton’s sea wall! You can see last year’s photos at the sea wall HERE.