FAMILY VACATION PHOTOSHOOT VENICE

Making memories to last a lifetime comes with its fair share of cost. Everyone knows that a vacation with young children is more work than relaxation. Everyone knows it’s all about your kids running around, screaming, and asking hundreds of never-ending questions. Everyone knows it’s about forever-stained t-shirts and scratched knees. But everyone should also know that this won’t last forever. Kids will grow up. They will become tired of running and bored of screaming. They will no longer walk around with jam or ice cream smeared on their chubby cheeks and noses. And when you finally breathe a sigh of relief, you will also smile at the faded memories of the chaos that once ruled your everyday life. This is why capturing these fleeting moments is so important. As a Family Vacation Photographer in Venice, I help preserve these memories—so that years from now, you can look back and relive the joy, the mess, and the love that made your family’s journey so special.

You will laugh remembering the time your child accidentally fell into a canal while visiting Venice, then smelled terrible for two days—making you dread that fancy dinner at a posh restaurant near the Rialto Bridge. You will laugh remembering when your little one played with the car keys, only to drop them into a manhole somewhere near the Louvre Museum. Your family of six was stranded in Paris without luggage for an entire day—all your kids had already stained their t-shirts, and just moments earlier, you had planned to check into a nice hotel and wash their faces after indulging in crepes with cream.

One day, you will be so grateful to have photos that capture these moments. They will make you laugh even harder—maybe even cry—as you cherish the chaos, the adventure, and the love that defined those precious years. As a Venice Family Vacation Photographer, I help preserve these stories, turning fleeting memories into timeless treasures you’ll hold onto forever.

 I hope you don’t mind, but I want to share what we are hoping for from this session. Please do not feel the need to take us to popular tourist sites for photographs. Your favorite bridges, canals, back streets and palazzos will be perfect. As I mentioned before, Talia is turning 1 just after the trip. We have pictures of both of our other kids getting messy with cake on their first birthday. Would you mind taking one as well? We would greatly appreciate it if we can swing by a bakery during the session and let the big kids buy their sister something messy and then photograph the impending chaos.

DAN, ALLISON & THEIR THREE ENERGETIC DAUGHTERS – ABBY, SOPHIE AND BABY TALIA ON THEIR FAMILY VACATION PHOTOSHOOT IN VENICE

Dan’s family showed me themselves during their Venice family vacation photoshoot as they are. The older girls love dancing and running – so they did dance and they did run. They are one happy family so they did smile and laugh uncontrollably a lot. The girls’ first language is English but they had recently started studying French so we spent some time listening to them reciting poems in French. Baby Talia was about to turn one few days later so we stopped by a cafe to let Sophie and Abby choose a nice cake for their younger sister to smash. We crossed tens of bridges and walked through countless squares and narrow alleys – talking, laughing and dancing when the girls inspired us to. Talia was sleepy so we let her sleep in her dad’s arms. Then we sat by a tiny canal and let the little one smash her cake once she was awaken. There were stained t-shirts. There was some cream on the noses and cheeks. There were laughs. There was love.

They created memories. These moments are already gone. They will never be repeated again. But they have something to look back on and smile.

Enjoy a monochrome gallery of Dan & Allison’s family vacation in Venice. Let the spills of emotion and full body laughter stand over the colours.

FAMILY VACATION PHOTOGRAPHY WITH A VALUE

I believe photography isn’t about insincere exaggerated pretence. I believe it’s about honest responses and raw emotions. Looking back at your old posed family pictures from 1992 gives you nothing but remembering how everyone looked in 1992 and how stressed out you were about repeating your children to stand straight and smile. Let them jump – the smile will come out naturally, born from happiness and freedom. Every family has its own energy. Bring it with you and use it. Let your children be children. Just because it’s precious to look back at your childhood pictures and think ‘I was such a personality when I was five. This was already me now’.