Three weeks in, and he still completely adores her. If you ask him what he thinks of his baby sister, or what she is like, he says “beautiful.” He runs to check on her when she cries, and he smothers her in kisses. We are so lucky.
Category Archives: Baby Photographer
I have photographed sweet baby Gavin while he was still in the womb, as he was born, and when he was a week old, so I wasn’t about to let maternity leave keep me from photographing Gavin at 3 months old!
I just love this one–so much personality!!
And another favorite–such a nice big smile:
(As an aside, Gavin is wearing my favorite cloth diapers–fuzzi bunz. Go cloth!)
Playing with daddy:
Snuggles from mommy:
Continuing in the best of 2009 recap series, today I am sharing half a dozen of my favorite family and kid portraits from last year.
Every year I end up with a family portrait session that I want to make out with. For 2009, this is the one. I love it. It says “loving family” to me and I want to make an album of it and put it on my shelf and pretend it’s my family. Poor Jamie has been dying to see something, ANYTHING from her shoot and I just keep telling her “don’t worry–they’re awesome!!” (She’s a lot nicer to her clients than I am to mine about getting sneak peeks up, I think!!)
I have friends who photograph a lot of photographers and I’ve always been jealous of them (a) because it’s a giant compliment when another photographer asks you to do the honor of photographing their family and (b) because photographers know the tricks. They know how to dress, they know how to behave…they know how to BRING IT to the session to make sure it rocks.
Jamie and Brandon BROUGHT IT. From coordinating everyone’s outfits around Mallory’s adorably colorful sweater, to setting the tone for the shoot by being super loving and fun…they were perfect.
Me? I was a nervous wreck. It has been a long time since I’ve been nervous before a shoot or wedding, but I tell you what–photographing a photographer is scary! And then editing the photos is even worse because every time I saw a photo I would normally just LOVE, I loved it and then I critiqued it for what another photographer might find wrong with it and decided that I totally suck. 
I don’t think I’m cut out to photograph photographers…unless I want to have to start dying my hair a lot more often! So to all you photographers who make it a habit, I tip my hat to you!
(ETA: Oops! This one got left out by mistake!)
(Whew! The blog is way out of date, so I’ve been trying to be a better blogger and get some of these backlogged sessions uploaded tonight! We are still swamped with getting caught up on weddings, albums, orders and our recent move, so thanks for hanging in there while the blog was gathering dust!)
It’s no secret that I’m a giant lover of newborns and babies. (It’s a good month if I can avoid being called a baby hog at our monthly cooking club.) So having a job where I get to see new babies? It’s like heaven! I actually had the honor of photographing Gavin’s birth, so I have seen him even littler than this! He is so precious and tiny, and he was my best newborn yet–he slept perfectly the whole time, no matter how I moved him around!
The shot on the right through the door is one of my most favorites ever–it reminds me so much of being a new mom and all those cozy private snuggles you get to share with your baby! (And then they grow up and shout things like “JUST HUMOR ME.”)
(And in case you missed it, here is the link to the post from Larissa’s maternity shoot late this summer!)
