Just six days old - {Albuquerque newborn photography}

First of all, I have ONE open slot left for this Saturday in the bosque. I'm doing 30 minute minisessions and my 4:00 appointment got changed. So if anyone is interested please contact me!

This little princess... oh my, I loved getting to meet her. She is only six days old - the younger the better for newborn photography - and she was so amazing! She is the 4th child in her family, so she's bound to be flexible and independent. Her family is one of my favorites for photography - they're all over my website, thanks :) - and she is no exception.

She was smiling a bunch, but only for a second! I thought I had missed them, but then when I looked at my images I had actually caught quite a few sleeping smiles.









She is my most successful binky-pulling subject ever. Usually that just makes babies mad, but she would settle right back down after we put the binky back. The only downside was some binky-mark removal in photoshop later. (Worth it!)

Halloween beauties at the park - {Albuquerque children photographer}

These girls are such beautiful princesses! Well, a princess, a fairy, and Minnie Mouse. Their grandma sewed these costumes, which astounds me as my Halloween costumes usually involve a good amount of electrical tape and craft foam. Anyway we went to the park to capture some of the magic before their visit was over.

Sometimes two year olds don't want to stay with their sisters for pictures. At all. This is normal. (And I even got like 3 pictures of them together before she was permanently done with it.)




I love it when you twirl around and the skirt really goes out! That has always made a dress a favorite for my girls.






The lollipop helped some, but...


the swing helped a lot more. We even got some pictures with her cute hat!


And then it was play time! I love pictures at the park.

Newborn twin girls - {Albuquerque newborn photographer}

These little girls just melt my heart - they are so beautiful and sweet! I went to their house for newborn portraits, and I was so excited for twins. They were perfect! I was reminded of my extreme respect for moms of twins :) - how do they manage it? - because they did not do a lot of both sleeping at the same time. But they were serene and darling when awake as well as asleep. Even when I was posing them both together, which was probably a little smooshy.

Their big brother got in a few pictures in the beginning. He did such a good job taking care of his sisters!






Every time I unwrapped them, they would wake right up. So I decided I was very happy with their gorgeous knit blankets, and we stuck with mostly keeping them wrapped up.














And they did both doze off together for a little bit. I love these pictures of them together.




I am much slower posting this preview than I meant to be! (My apologies to their really nice mom!) I do school portraits for a couple of charter schools, and it takes a huge amount of time. And the schedule is really tight. Anyway I'm finally to a good place with my orders & proofs (for a few days anyway) and I have time to proof sessions again - so if you're waiting for me for something, I'll be getting back with you any time now. :) Thanks for your patience - this fall has been even busier than I thought it would be.

Holiday cards 2010 - {Albuquerque family photographer}

I was so excited when I saw these new cards at my favorite lab! I've actually seen them a couple of good places - they are the newest thing I guess. They are really very flexible - I'm posting a couple of designs but I'll surely come up with more before the season is over. I love the impact that sending a die-cut Christmas card makes. (Now... this will give me extra incentive to actually get a Christmas card of my own done... BEFORE Christmas this year!) I have some more information on my website.

If you are interested in holiday greeting cards, I am offering a 20% discount on a purchase of 50 or more die-cut cards for any of my clients having a fall session. Just call or email me if you have any questions! These first six cards are 5x5" or 5x7" flat double-sided cards. You can have text or a picture on the back as well.













And some regular rectangular cards too - these are newly designed for this season, but I still have the old designs from last year too.

Two sets of brothers - two of the boys are actually superheroes

Here are 2 sets of brothers. Really fun guys. I have 3 brothers myself so I remember both the fun times and the otherwise :) - we'll just keep thinking about the good times because that's all we had with these boys!

These are my running friend's sons. (Running friends are such very valuable friends - both getting me out of bed in the morning to get a run in, and making it possible to do so safely in pitch-black darkness.) She didn't like her son's school pictures, so she brought them over for maybe 4 minutes one afternoon. They were so happy and fun that that's all it took! I hope she likes these much better.








And see, they are also either Spidermen themselves or Spiderman experts.


And here are some great boys we've known for a long time - their mom is such a nice friend. Last year we did some pictures with them with the gorgeous yellow leaves, and this year we went to Old Town. They were honestly so cooperative & happy, for really quite a long time, I was impressed. (My kids were along & were pretty naughty - they seem to save that behavior for this family... not sure why....)


This is trickier than it looks when you're not real tall. :)






















"The grass isn't too wet!" I said. Well, yes it was. Fortunately they were good sports about it.