I was going to try to write something really sentimental and really emotional and really *me* for this slide show, but I find the words failing me for once, which Matt will tell you is a rarity. Moms are amazing and awesome and all things wonderful.
This slide show is a celebration of some of those moms from the last twelve months.
**Disclaimer, I apologize if I missed someone, I tried really hard not to :)
I ended my work week last week with the beautiful little Miss P. and her mom and dad. Mom had wanted some one year old shots so we met up at Roger Williams Park on Friday which turned out to be her actual birthday! That usually doesn’t happen. Usually I see the kids right before or right after, not on their birthday. But her birthday it was so we set out for some photos of just her and a few family shots as well. P. was (next to newborns) my absolute FAVORITE stage to photograph. She is old enough to sit up and loves life and people but can’t yet run away shrieking from me walk. So while mom and dad (and sometimes grandparents) helped to make her laugh, growl and smile, I snapped away. It was, after two amazing newborns, an amazing toddler session. She did phenomenally well and we were done in possibly record time which is always good – both for the subject and the photographer! 😉
Happy happy birthday sweet baby girl, I hope your party was wonderful!!!
What three days of shooting looks like… (Partially) 🙂 Yes some of these were shared before but now there’s lots!!!
If you follow my work, you probably remember THIS sweetie-pie newborn from a few months ago
Well this is what the gorgeous Miss L. is looking like nowadays – five and a half months later!!
I got to spend Saturday morning with her and her parents. I had very specific ideas of what look I wanted for these photos before I even went into the session — I knew mom and dad’s bedroom had a basic white duvet cover with a beautiful wall color and I wanted to keep the pictures very simple, hence the minimalist approach (and no clothes!) We did the majority of the photos in their room and then a few in her gorgeous nursery.
This is just a *wonderful* age to photograph. Babies are old enough to sit up on their own (some times longer than other times 🙂 ) and are SO attentive to the world around them. They aren’t yet afraid of the giant camera, they don’t have stranger anxiety and are SO expressive. Next to newborns, this phase is my absolute favorite!!! And Miss L was just a dream to work with. So unbelievably cute – I could have stayed there snuggling her all morning 🙂
I had a session this morning with one of my favorite families. But this time it was a different session in that Lynn just wanted some nice quiet photos with her younger daughter, G., 15 months. We both know all too well, having older kids, that these moments when they are little are just SO fleeting and SO precious. And she wanted to capture them. When she first contacted me for the session we were worried that perhaps G., being 15 months old, would be just too curious about me, but that was not the case at all. And I got to do a session that I can already tell I absolutely adore. I love the emotion and the love in these two – they jumped out at me as I was looking quickly through the files.
