What with a summer vacation in Europe visiting family and all the rush with sessions beforehand I’ve neglected updating the blog with some of my favorite sessions. For this particular session from earlier this summer I think it is well worth the wait. As you can see these children are adorable and were so well behaved too, a pleasure to photograph!
The 6-8 month age before crawling starts is a really wonderful time for baby portraits. Babies are happy sitting and directing their attention towards my camera lens. They come in happy and can hold their own for quite a while before thinking about the next nap. That’s just perfect for a couple of clothing and background changes. Here’s one of my favorite studio baby sessions from June. This girl was a delight to photograph.
Here’s some selections from two studio sessions from a few weeks back. The first little guy was in for his newborn portraits. I just love the serene bond between Mom and baby in the second portrait. Mom selected some single images on digital mats which I thought looked really striking when they arrived back from the lab. Two of them are shown here.
The second two images are from a mini shoot with a very adorable 6 month old girl. She came in for an evening session and was very happy. We always try and fit sessions around babies most contented time of the day.
I now like to blog portraits at the time I’m working on the print order from a session. Here’s a couple of standout portraits from a current order we are working on. These and all the others chosen are going to look great on display. These boys were wonderful in studio. What a delight it was to meet them!
and that was from me when I loaded the images from my camera and viewed them on the computer screen! As the photographer I just love many of the portraits from this session. I hope they’ll be a few ooh’s and aah’s as well from Mom and dad when they receive their prints.
This newborn boy was exactly a week old when we photographed him. Newborn sessions are best done in the first few days of life and this studio visit was perfect timing. Lots of sleepiness going on here. I even felt like taking a nap after we’d finished!
In contrast, this little guy was wide awake for much of this newborn session. This is quite typical when babies visit me around the 2-3 week age. One of my favorite images from the session is the first portrait here. It was actually a test shot to check lighting but I happen to like the form of it. It was great meeting the whole family and the studio is currently working on some super portrait prints for the family.
Family session with adorable 6 month old.
Individual Portraits of A Delightful 9 Year Old Girl. These were part of a family session.
I am presently working on preparing prints from these two sessions. Here’s my favorite picks from the two shoots.
More recent studio session previews to follow.
I was glad we could squeeze in this newborn session the day before Christmas Eve. This beautiful little baby girl was just two weeks old. At holiday time children show us the joy of the season in many ways. What could be more joyful than the arrival of a new baby. I hope this family had a wonderful Christmas together.
We have been taking a break from the studio this past week so we can spend this special time with our kids. Mike and I worked hard to get holiday orders to people right up to Christmas Eve and we are back now preparing outstanding proof galleries and working on print orders. For those families waiting on orders or galleries we will be in contact early in the new year.
We would like to send our clients our very best wishes for 2011. We look forward to seeing some of you again for your portraits in the new year.
Here’s a snapshot of a newborn/family shoot from last week. I like to work on specific baby poses for newborn sessions but sometimes there are unplanned moments that make the most intimate special portraits. The first one is just this. I love this image!
It was great seeing this family again. I photographed the eldest boy when he was a newborn. He’s now growing up into one supercute energetic guy. His little brother was not on for sleeping during this session. I guess there was too much going on to interest him. I think these two brothers are going to form quite a partnership!