Bellies
Brand New
Babies
Posted on December 30, 2011
My work with the organization Operation: Love ReUnited is one of the most rewarding things that photography has allowed me to pursue. I am honored to be giving back to the servicemembers and their families who support and defend our country. I also had the pleasure of photographing two very special couples this year – one who I met through OpLove (and photographed their homecoming in 2010) and the other a friend from high school whose boyfriend contacted me to propose to her during our portrait session! Enjoy the LOVE below – these are my faves from the year 2011!
Posted on December 30, 2011
I realized after I chose my top ten maternity photos that nearly all of them are couples….and then I smiled. Many women contact me to schedule their newborn session and say, “I really don’t know that I want belly pictures, but maybe I should capture this time in our lives, too” and I respond with a resounding YES! Because I believe that maternity portraits aren’t just about the belly – they are a way to capture the love between two people, the love that created life. So capturing that relationship between parents-to-be is one of my favorite parts of maternity sessions and I hope it shows in my favorites from 2011!
{By the way, I think I could have chosen about 10 different maternity silhouettes to fill this list…it was hard to narrow those to just two!!}
Posted on December 29, 2011
Babies are always so cute! Those chubby cheeks, cute little fingers and toes, big bright eyes….it’s the only time in a person’s life where rolls are adorable, so we celebrate it! Here are just a few of my favorites from 2011:
Posted on December 29, 2011
This was the first year in which I specialized in maternity, birth, newborn, and baby portraiture. The result was having to turn down family photography requests – the hardest were those clients who have used me in the past and wanted to return. After looking over the family sessions I did in 2011, I wonder if that was a good choice. LOL! I love my families – they are always so well-coordinated and beautiful and I just love making connections with them. There are so many more that I could have chosen for this blog post, and I hope I don’t offend anyone by choosing. I went with a variety – big families, siblings, colorful, black & white, etc.
While my first love will always be the time surrounding the birth of a new baby, I will always try to make room in my schedule for my favorite growing families whenever possible! Here are my favorites from 2011. For each one, I could tell a story….but I won’t. I’ll let the images speak for themselves!
Posted on December 28, 2011
I didn’t realize how hard it would be to choose just TEN images from the whole year until I started going back through my archives! To be honest, I probably could have chosen ten per birth for this particular category – each birth experience is so different and the images truly tell the story of a woman’s journey to bring her baby into the world.
Birth Photography is an intimate specialty. Not only do you have to be well versed in different lighting situations and maneuver quietly and stealthily in a hospital or home environment so as not to disturb the laboring mother, her support team, and the staff (if in a hospital), but you also have to read body language and cues well. After photographing births for nearly 2 years, I feel as though I know when to take a step back and put the camera down and when to keep the camera in my hand because things are going to move quickly. It’s a delicate balance between knowing when to snap that perfect moment’s photo and when to allow for privacy or modesty.
But the emotion captured in the images from births takes my breath away. There is something so raw and so deep about the moments surrounding the birth of a child…and being privileged enough to witness and capture it? Priceless. Enjoy my top 10…okay, 11…favorite birth images of 2011.
And I had to add this one of last week’s Christmas birth. It isn’t often that I am allowed or able to capture this moment, so when I am, I take full advantage!
