Newborn photography

If I hurry up, I can blog more than once before December is over! I managed to finish up the Christmas rush, and I'm supposed to be taking December and January off from shooting.  I am really ready for a break, and I need to some serious time to work on some business issues, marketing, revise my website, etc.  Not to mention spend a lot more time with my family!

But... of course I have a few exceptions to my time off policy... and a beautiful newborn is one of them.  This darling little girl is a Christmas baby - she is 9 days old today and I had a great time with her and her parents earlier today working on these portraits.  (It seems like just yesterday that I did their wedding portraits!)



She didn't sleep for a super long time, but fortunately she slept deeply and I was able to do a lot of fun things with her while she slept.  She hates being on her tummy when awake, so I was happy that she didn't notice it while sleeping.




I made this little bluebird hat earlier this fall.  So sweet.  I have a nest that  I keep meaning to use with it, but she woke up (with a shout) and we were done before the nest came out.












And she was really calm for a lot of awake portraits too.  That's pretty unusual for me with newborns, so I enjoyed it!








 I have a bunch more newborn sessions, along with some info on my baby plan options, on this blog page - check it out!

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Lifestyle photography

Oh blog, how I've missed you! I haven't had a spare second to post, even though I've been having a blast with fall photography. At this point I'm not taking any more sessions for the year, except I make exceptions for newborns and for my "Baby's First Year" clients. I'm also taking January off to try to rest and spend some time with my family. Then in February I'll be ready to go again!

As a photographer I haven't specialized in any certain sort of photography, even though it can be a good idea for your business in general to do that. One of my problems is that I honestly really enjoy lots of different sorts of photography! But I think it's a good idea for potential clients to know what I like. If you like what I like, that's the combination we want. :)

So with that in mind, I'm posting a recent family session. I do a lot of family sessions with small children. This is not always easy. (In fact I don't think it is ever EASY, exactly.) But it can always be a lot of fun. I prefer the lifestyle photography approach - I don't love formal posed photography, especially with small children. But as we start the session, I always try to get some nice semi-posed family portraits first. 

Here the older two kids were helping me to get the lighting right.


Then the whole family together.  (I LOVE a good grassy hill!)  The light was perfect on the day we did these.


Sometimes after we try to do something more posed, we have to run around a lot next.  These two were great at dancing together.  (Then I have to admit that they were rolling down the hill after that - I felt a little bad, but they didn't get too grassy, and the pictures were great!  One thing to know about me is that I don't do a great job of keeping your family clean when we go out on location.)








Then it was time to move to a new location.




After we have enough family portraits that I feel satisfied, we move on to other combinations. 




Usually I would have done baby portraits first after the family, but she kept sleeping instead.   (How darling is that?)




And after we've done everything we can think of, we look around for an opportunity to play!  We swung on the swings, had a big leaf fight, ran around, and finally ran out of time.  We had a lot of fun, and I love the pictures that we got in the end.