Baby birthday cake - {Albuquerque baby photography}

So many of my "Baby Plan" babies are growing up! This little guy just turned 1 year old, so we celebrated with some portraits and cake.  His parents like high-key portraits (with the white background) and so do I:






Next we went outside to splash in my fountain, which I'm always so happy to use since my family made it for me last year:


He definitely liked the splashes!


And then it was time for cake.  He did a great job - happy and sticky are just what I like with cake pictures.  And he said "Mmmmmm!"




Nothing like some frosting between the toes... :)

Family reunion at the park - {Albuquerque family photography}

Some families do such a great job with their clothes for family reunion portraits.  This is one of my favorite ways to do it - each family wears a different color and they all look great together.  This combo was especially appropriate since it was right around July 4th.  This session was so fun for me - the adult children gave their parents a family photo session as a surprise, so they all showed up with their cameras and tripods (which they all got out later on too!).  It was a beautiful day and we got a lot of great family portraits.





The youngest little guy had a short attention span, but it helps to have a whole bunch of aunts, uncles, and grandparents dancing around behind my head to try to get him to laugh!  It worked!


We did some more traditional family portraits, but before long almost everyone was in the trees.



And since we were at the park, we had to do playground pictures too! 






What a fun family!  It was great to meet you all!

Double the fun! - {Albuquerque family photography}

I had a great time with this amazing family. I can't imagine life with two sets of twins... I think it would be so perfect after the first few years, but those first years would be tough!  The boys especially had some great ideas about where we should do pictures.  They weren't too excited about the blanket, but they liked the tree stumps!  The girls were a hoot too - they had their best smiles when they were riding piggyback, and their dad was a lot of fun.  (I love pictures with fun dads.  Moms are usually fun but it's an extra treat when the dads are too.)

I just found out that this area, along with the bosque, is closed until the drought eases.  So I guess I'm glad we got pictures when we did!  Here's a quick preview for their great mom - see you tomorrow!

Engagement session at UNM - in the smokey haze - {Albuquerque engagement photography}

I had a blast with this amazing couple when we hung around UNM one evening for an engagement session!  They both recently graduated from UNM and had lots of great ideas for places for pictures.  (I didn't go to UNM so all I really know is the duck pond... I needed to spend some time there looking around!)  They are getting married very soon - I'm so excited that I'll get to be their wedding photographer this weekend.  I couldn't have found a nicer couple to work with.  And with that I will wish them the all best as they prepare for their big weekend... :)









They were nonstop funny all evening.  I think at least 1/3 of their pictures turned up to be laughing pictures - that's just how the session was.  I loved it.














This was one of the smokey nights from the huge Arizona wildfire - I was really worried that the smoke would be chokingly thick, but it was okay.  We did have the bright red sun in the background a couple of times, but I didn't pause to set up additional light so it would show very well.  I was just grateful that the air wasn't too hazy!







If you're interested in more information about a wedding or engagement photography, you can call or email me - I would love to talk about it.

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I can't resist posting newborns! - {Albuquerque newborn photography}

Looking back I'm posting my newborn sessions, but not the others! I need to work on posting a better variety of my session. :) But this little newborn was so darling - she was a little "old" for me to be comfortable saying I can get her to sleep for portraits, but then she ended up being an amazing sleeper. And one of my favorite things about her session is that she was smiling so much of the time! I got all sorts of darling little sleep-smiles. I'll post a few below. Thanks to her really nice mom for bringing her!

A new baby boy - {Albuquerque newborn photography}

It's always so nice to see old friends - especially when a new baby is involved! We got to know this great family a few years ago when our boys were in preschool together. Then when the boys went on to elementary school we unfortunately kind of lost touch.  So I was thrilled to hear from them when their new baby boy was born, and of course I loved getting to meet him while he is still tiny.  The rest of our kids spent the afternoon playing in the water in our back yard, while we had just as much fun with their baby brother inside.  He was a great sleeper - we got all kinds of great newborn portraits with him!

They love baseball...







Their older son is a big dinosaur guy - in fact I think he's been serious about dinosaurs for a few years, because they both loved dinosaurs in preschool too.  Anyway we thought it would be fun to have his baby brother sleep in a dino nest for pictures.






















Thanks so much for coming! It was great to see you - we'll have to have another water party again soon!

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