Connor's First Communion Shots

This past Sunday, we ventured down to Mineola, New York to take some communion portraits for an awesome little man Connor. He has such a dynamic personality which made photographing him a ton of fun, even though he wanted to be riding his bike instead of wearing his suit, but he still stuck it out and we all had a great time!

We started our adventure at the Church where Connor will be receiving his first communion. When we arrived we thought we were going to be allowed inside for some portraits near some of the amazing statues and have Connor get the Our father on in one of the pews. So we decided to do the right thing and ask the church staff if we could take some pictures inside instead of just barging in, and to our surprise they denied us. Guess not going to Church in a while made the man upstairs unhappy with us, hahaha. I remember the good old days when church doors were left open all the time for anyone to enter anytime. So instead of being bummed out and shooting somewhere else we decided to shoot outside of the Church and then hit up the park.

Although the Church did not have the traditional cathedral arch ways and doors, it did have some fabulous etched doors, and this little man looked so grown up standing in front of them.

Kind of what God would see looking down on him praying, I would assume ;)


It was surprising how straight faced many of these pictures in this portion came out because we were all laughing so hard. Connor has such a great sense of humor and it was hilarious how he would get everyone laughing and then quickly revert into stealth, serious mode.


These are some of the traditional first Communion accessories. Gotta show off the church going bling!!


What a priceless look! What do you think is going through his mind, praying or bike riding? hmmm


It actually looks like he was reading the Bible. It was super funny how once in a while we caught him posing with the little first Bible upside down.


The Our Father kept showing up in a bunch of the images we grabbed.


While we were shooting Connor was the make shift safety coordinator, every time a car would come down the street he would yell CAR like we were back in the day playing kick ball or something, hehehe. Even though he was checking for cars in this shot I still think it came out spectacular.

We had such a good time photographing Connor and we can not wait until May for the Communion party!!!