Operation Love family portraits - {Albuquerque family photography}

I was honored to meet this great military family - the dad was about to be deployed and they came for some family portraits.  (Then I left on vacation and took forever to post their session, my apologies...)  They are so much fun - I really hope they love these pictures.

For more information about Operation Love sessions, you can see their website. 

















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More baby birthday cake - {Albuquerque baby photography}

We just got back from an amazing vacation to Florida, and I'm scrambling to get my act back together. :)  I have lots of sessions to process, but since I've been neglecting blogging lately I thought I'd post a few from this little princess's session earlier this month.  She is so gorgeous!  She's always been so smiley and happy, and this session was no exception.  She just turned 1 year old, so we did some pretty portraits first, and then got out the cake!









I don't think I've ever gotten so many perfect pre-cake-destruction pictures.  She was happy AND patient!  She kept eating & never had a melt-down (which often happens with cake pictures, maybe they are just too much fun or too much pressure or something :) ), with huge smiles all the time (which doesn't always happen either - sometimes babies are really serious about their cake!).  Too many to post, but here are a few that I loved.

Baby birthday cake - {Albuquerque baby photography}

I have been having so much fun lately with babies! This little guy just recently turned 1 year old, so we had a birthday cake session. One of my very favorite sessions to do! It's especially fun when they like the cake :) (which doesn't always happen) - he was enthusiastic and happy to the end. What a good boy! 

Smiley baby princess - {Albuquerque baby photographer}

I can't believe it's February already! How did that happen? :) I definitely had my busiest January ever, but I've been keeping up pretty well. I recently did these portraits - that I LOVE - of this darling little baby. She is 6 months old and smiled the whole time she was here.

Best Face Photo from January 2011 - {Albuquerque baby photography}

I don't very often enter the iheartfaces contest, but it always seems like such a fun idea.  This week's theme is "best face photo in January".  It was hard to pick - I haven't even processed all my pictures from January yet - but this one is a big favorite of mine.  Check out their website - they are a lot of fun.  Thanks!

Baby girls! - {Albuquerque baby photography}

I have met the most darling babies lately! I love baby portraits any day, and all of the babies I've met lately have been especially fun.  This little girl below was a little serious, but we still got plenty of smiles.  (And I like some serious portraits too!)  She just turned one year old - happy birthday!
















I met this darling little girl a year or so ago when her daddy came home from Iraq.  Now she is 2 years old and full of personality!  (Oh, she was last time too!)  Her mom had specially ordered this headband and hat, she got 2 year old portraits from a friend from out of state, but so sadly the memory card was lost!  She got a few portraits but wanted some more.  Her daughter was so perfect, it took maybe 10-15 minutes and we got all kinds of great pictures.  Thanks for coming! :)

Soccer senior - {Albuquerque senior photographer}

I met this gorgeous senior a couple of weekends ago. She actually came from Gallup for senior pictures, and I really enjoyed meeting her. I have a. lot. of pictures for her that I love. I had a hard time narrowing down what to post (which you may notice here).

We did some studio pictures inside first. She is a soccer player - I love it when seniors bring sports equipment or props. And I love soccer especially so I was really happy with these.














And then we went outside - I was nervous that it would be freezing cold, we've had such variable winter weather, but it was totally fine. It was a lot of fun - she is (as you can tell) really photogenic! And Old Town is nice any time of year. All of this adds up to... oh my, 175 proofs. That may be my record for seniors. :)












Thanks so much to this amazing girl & her mom - it was great to meet you!