Baby Calla!

You may recall April and Duane's maternity session back in October. Their little one is finally here! Shes an absolute angel, and so incredibly beautiful that you would swear the angel wings are real.

I got a chance to meet her last night. I am so very happy for April and Duane and their family! What a sweet little lady!

As a photographer, I am so grateful to have friends like April and Duane who let me play and be creative. It absolutely makes my day. I was up until 2am editing because I just. could. not. stop.



Can ya blame me? Yeah, I thought not.



We used the same butterflies and flowers from the maternity session!



Calla has so much hair! So pretty!










This hat was so big on her! Adorable.





Look what a little sweetheart she is! She was so good. She didn't get upset even once, even with all of our harassing and photo taking.




And of course, my absolute favorite. I had these wings custom made a while ago, but it seems no one wants photos of baby boys in fairy wings...but they are beautiful on Calla!


She's so sweet! Check out her slide show:

What a Little Angel!

I am starting to get used to doing newborn portraits. I actually am finding I really enjoy it.

This little guy was kind enough to model for me on Saturday! Maybe I am just really lucky, but he was a complete and total little angel for the whole session. He was so good.















And because I LOVE this one in both black and white and color, here it is again...




In addition to being good, he is just plain beautiful. Just look at those baby blues! He has the most amazing blue eyes and was such an expressive little guy. What a total sweetheart!

Here is a little animoto of a few from his session too- so sweet!



PS. Were trying out new watermarks for the blog. Let me know if you hate them or they are too distracting!

Bebe Noir

I went back to visit Mindy and Steven and Little Mr. Jace to try to finish up our list of newborn pictures with a hopefully sleepier munchkin. While he was a tiny bit more tired than he was during my last visit, he was still very alert and interested in all the goings on. We did not get them all done, but since we were not really expecting to, that was just fine. We got some beautiful results!

I am proud to report that there was no peeing, pooping or spitting up on the studio equipment this time! Truly a strange thing to have happen. All the same, we are still thinking he strongly dislikes all the lights and lenses so close to him.

I am feeling a bit quirky this evening (maybe lack of sleep) so tonight's selections will be black and white versions only for your viewing pleasure. Not to worry, I have full color and diluted versions too...the kid is too pretty not to have them all! Once again, blogger with the artifacting. Click them and take a look at the uploaded size for all the beautiful details.













This is it for a little while. The kid has a busy couple weeks of growing and doing super important new baby stuff ahead, but hopefully we will have more as he grows.

We spent a lot of time today focusing on his little toes! He definitely got daddy's big feet. You know what they say about big feet right? Big shoes.

Jace- The First Session

Newborns (and babies in general) are tough subjects. Nothing for it, and they are adorable so we persevere. Jace is no different.

I warn parents that if they want "naked as the day they were born" baby shots, be prepared to get wet. Thats a very nice way of putting it and oh-so-true. At least Mindy was a good sport about it. Jace most certainly earned his "automatic sprinkler baby" title...in every way possible. I guess at a mere six days old, thats really all you have in your arsenal of defenses. Either way, it provided some comedic relief for the session.

It was an uphill battle with this session, the little guy is so curious about what is going on around him, that he stayed awake and pretty active the whole time. With newborns and little ones, they pretty much run the show and dictate the way the session goes. We are going to try again very soon with a hopefully more tuckered out baby for some of the other very sweet shots we had hoped to get done.

In the mean time, here are a few photos from this first session of the very cute, very sweet, very awake baby Jace. As always, if you click the photos the full web sized version will open to view. I don't know why, but blogger artifacts them a little bit.



















Beautiful isn't he? Mindy and Steven are going to have to beat girls off of him with a stick in a few short years!

Steven's mother showed me some photos of him as a little guy, and really, they could be body doubles. Jace looks exactly like him!

Hopefully we will have some more goodies coming soon- including some pictures with mom and dad if we are lucky! I can't wait to see this kid grow- hes so dang cute!