There’s a challenge when you become a photographer to find your niche. Not just your style. But what you love to do. Who you love to work with. It takes some time and potentially some really not-your-favorite sessions to start to develop where you fit in (and where you don’t!). Lately, I’ve really felt that my calling as a photographer is to walk with families as they grow, taking pictures along the way.
This session was a great example of that for me. I was blessed to be able to take engagement portraits of this couple a few years ago and now am documenting another big step in their lives together–a new baby! It means the world to me to be able to work with families over the years and grow with them. It’s incredibly meaningful and special to me!
But enough about me. . .let’s enjoy this sweet, totally loving couple as they eagerly await their sweet little girl.
A little light reading. ..
Can’t you just feel their excitement? Such a loving couple. Little girl is very lucky, indeed!
Mom made this adorable pillow a la Pinterest for the session.
I think this one is my favorite from the session. Top three, at least.
I love when I ask a couple to get close and sweet and they are so truly in love and adore each other so much. These two are the most loving couple. Big pink puffy heart love!!
She’s such a pretty little mamacita!
Love this one, too!
Love!
Thanks, you guys, for sharing this moment with your growing family! I cannot wait to meet miss C!!!!
I think this is my new favorite girlie blanket! Some days I just can’t get enough of PINK!
What a sweet little snug-bug! She was truly my easiest newborn yet! So content to sleep and then have some quiet alert time where we got to see those big gorgeous eyes!
I always like to incorporate sentimental items into the session– a friend had made this little knit hat for this sweet baby girl.
She has miles of eyelashes. So gorgeous! And she was so sweet to model this bonnet for me! I heart it!
Prin-cess. Definitely.
Now I love images like this. . .when Mom and Dad look and say something like: “Oh! She always has her hand up like this!” Or “She was always doing that during the ulatrasounds!”. I love when we capture the babies’ earliest personalities and preferences to remember forever.
Hello, gorgeous.
See those lashes? Thank goodness Daddy is already prepared to deal with suitors!
Sweet, sweet, sweet.
If you’re wondering if I just kept her in this position and put every hair-pretty I own on her then you are wondering correctly! To quote a fabulous newborn photographer: “Sometimes I get a little crazy with the girls”. She was so compliant to just chill out while I got to play dress-up with headbands and hats!
This sweet little Aggie with a handmade chair from her Grandpa.
Beautiful family.
Pretty Mama.
I’m just going to point out that this wee little man is barely three and rides with no training wheels or assistance. Very impressive!
No critters were spotted except, perhaps, for this handsome little guy.
Teenager in training. Yep. I’m getting the stink-face here.
Love. Love. Love. With big pink puffy hearts.
Mom promised that the shoes matching so perfectly was just a fortunate accident. They’re super-awesome.
Changing perspective.
I asked them to bring a book that was special and they brought Calvin and Hobbes and read a favorite clip.
Quite possibly my favorite sibling image to date. Love this so much!
I didn’t realize how much these guys went upside down in the session until I was blogging and realized this was the second “upside down kids” image that I loved and had to post. They didn’t seem to mind too much!
Pretty much my favorite image from the session. Yup. That makes my day.
Maxin’ and relaxin’.
We wrapped up with a little bit of music. It was a little bit of awesomeness.
Two-man show.
And just in case Dad needs an album cover some day. . .
I think the first and the last are my favorites.
