How is little miss Emerson already over a year old?! Time goes by so fast, and it's such a pleasure to be able to photograph littles year after year. I'm lucky this gang heads to Ponte Vedra Beach to vacation every summer. The beach was the perfect location for Emerson's one year photographs, and it didn't hurt that the weather had finally cooperated! It's been a summer filled with rainstorms and clouds, but there have also been wonderful little pockets of magic that happen just before sunset too.

Scroll down to view a few of my favorites from this light and airy coastal motherhood portrait session. I never tire of photographing the genuine and natural connection between a mother and her child. Be sure to check out their family film at the very bottom of the post too!