“Once upon a time we were kids.” I wrote the words below over a dozen years ago. And I was reminded of them recently when Beaufort Photography Co. photographed the Benza family. Once upon a time we were kids “In 1974 I was ten years old. And every day had but a single focus –…

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Beach Family Fun Having lived on the Crystal Coast for almost five years now, I’ve become a local in how I view the year. There is Labor Day to Memorial Day (roughly September to May). And there is Memorial Day to Labor Day (roughly May to September). It’s during the latter (May to September) that…

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Brothers and sisters and cousins, oh my! There is nothing as unpredictable and exciting as photographing brothers and sisters and cousins, oh my! One never knows what will happen when you get them together. No people on the face of the earth can love, hate, care for, and despise each other as much as brothers…

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Happiness is… George Burns once commented, “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family…in another city.” Not so for the Munsons and the Mannings. These families exude a joy and happiness that truly defines the meaning of the word “family.” Their laughter with (and at) one another and their love for one another was…

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Three sisters and a brother sounds like the title of a Hollywood movie, but in this case it was the title of a Northeastern North Carolina lifestyle portrait session a few years back. Amber, Ashley, Autumn, and Michael were all in town for one of Northeastern North Carolina’s mild Christmases. We met on a picture…

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