Thursday, February 28, 2008

Baby Addison

A few weekends ago I posted some images from Kim and Dan's maternity session at their home. Well I'm happy to present Baby Addison here today! She was born about 2 1/2 weeks ago and they brought her in for her debut photo session!

She was as I had hoped -- sleeping most of the session. The only time she opened her eyes was when we stripped her down to her naked skin! Then we got a few wails of protest. So most of these images are with her dressed and more comfortable. Even with my heat turned up to 75 and a space heater, it's hard to get these little ones to tolerate winter air! Nevertheless, she is divine clothed or unclothed. Her face is precious. Look at her lips. I am so happy for Kim and Dan -- they both were incredibly relaxed and it transferred to Addison since she was so content and sleepy the entire shoot! Again, I love this -- one of my bridal couples moving on to family photos! I'm so honored to be documenting these important milestones in their lives! What a great job I have.








Friday, February 8, 2008

Growing Christian

Because I'm a perfectionist, I asked Janene to bring Baby Christian back for a 2nd shoot in January. They came in December the first time when Christian was about 6-7 weeks old along with his 2 older sisters...but as I have learned, working with babies who are in-between the newborn and holding-their-head-up phase, they are harder to shoot -- the involuntary 'flailing' movements make it hard. So for this round, I had Janene hold him for many of the photos and he did do well solo as he was stronger and even smiling this time.






Thursday, February 7, 2008

Double take!

Last weekend was such a blast for me. I went down to Atlanta to visit some of my best friends from high school -- I went to a boarding school in PA called The Mercersburg Academy and while I get jabbed from friends who think I went to 'reform' school b/c they think I needed it (wink, wink) -- to clarify, it was actually a prep school. So while the academics just about killed me when I was there, I did do exceedingly well in making friends and playing sports! That counts for something, right? My grandfather, was a class of 1915 graduate and my father was 1943. How cool is that? One went to Princeton and the other to Duke. I can't say that I followed in their footsteps when it comes to going to a prestigious college but hey, were they having as much fun running their own business before they turned 40?

Anyway, it was such joy for me. Julie and PJ are adorable -- dated starting in 11th/12th grade(!!!!!), through college, thru med and PT school and now married 10+ years with 4 gorgeous kids later! They live in the most beautiful house in the most beautiful suburb, Marietta. I love it there and am amazed at the reasonable housing prices after DC! Makes me want to move there for just the housing alone. As a bonus, we got to visit with another one of my best friends from Mercersburg -- Matt! I hadn't seen him in nearly 10 years so that was truly a bonus. We sat around and talked, laughed and reminisced about our teenage days for an entire morning and afternoon!

I was also able to visit yet another good friend, Carolyn Black, who just moved to Marietta from Alexandria this past summer. She was my boys preschool teacher and we miss her. I was crushed when she moved b/c she was another loving mama to my boys and also a great buddy to chat about photography. How lucky she moved to Marietta too!

Lastly, I attended a photo seminar as I mentioned in a previous post called "Babies & Bellies". Good stuff -- marketing, posing, lighting and tricks to working with pregnancy subjects and babies. Will try to implement some of her ideas this year!

So take a look at PJ and Julie's kids. I had such a ball photographing them. We have Madelyn who is 7, Charleton who is 4 1/2 and the twins, Kip and Kaden (2) who were obsessed with shooting water from water bottles all weekend -- you may see one in a photo! They are gorgeous children -- smiley and giggly.












Monday, February 4, 2008

Lifestyle/Maternity shoot

Kim and Dan were one of my 2006 bridal couples and I'm happy to say they are about to embark on parenthood together now! I was honored when they asked me to do their maternity photos as well as their newborn photos which we have slated for mid-February after Kim delivers -- which is supposed to be this week! I love working with couples and/or families over time -- seeing children grow, babies change, or the couple becoming a family! What an honor for me to be their chosen photographer.

Kim opted for more of a 'lifestyle' maternity session instead of a studio shoot -- so I went to their home in Bethesda to photograph them together a few weekends ago. We did a lot in their nursery which made so much sense as Kim has always been one for details and this nursery is so beautiful and lively! I loved her pink top too and it's fitting as they are expecting a girl -- duh! Look at those walls!

I can't wait to see them in a couple weeks with their baby.










Friday, February 1, 2008

My first newborn shoot

It's fitting I did this shoot on the day before I fly to Atlanta to attend a photo seminar called, "Babies & Bellies" on Saturday night, hosted and taught by the co-founder (Sandy Puc) of the charity I work with, Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.

I asked Jen to bring baby Whitney in as soon as she could after delivering. Whit is about 3 weeks old here and Jen came in for her maternity shoot about a week before her water broke!! Jen was such a trooper as these little ones pee and poop at will! And I'm all about naked baby photos so it's pretty much a guarantee. I have another newborn shoot in 2 weeks with one of my former brides in 2006. I did her maternity shoot at her home 2 weeks ago and still need to post those images. It's really fun doing this and I have a lot to learn so if you know anyone who is about to have a baby and wants newborn photos (within the first 2 weeks of delivering only), I'll be doing this at a 50% discount off my sitting free for a while.