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I must admit to being a bit nervous about photographing sweet Ellie for the first time.  You see, her parents are former OpLove clients and Love Story Contest winners…and Ellie and her mommy had some medical challenges that kept her away from my studio for a couple weeks.  But you would never have known that […]

Two of my recent newborn girls are featured on the blog today – it’s such a pleasure working with itty bitty little ones and these were no exception! <3 Here’s Ronan – she was determined to be awake for her first photos!! And here is Miss Sloane, the perfect princess!

I was lucky enough to capture Lucy’s Birth (click for the slideshow!) and when she came for her newborn session, her big brother Jude did amazingly well with her!  Here are some of my all-time favorite newborn shots – I am so thrilled that they chose me to capture their growing family!

This little stinker wanted to stay awake for his newborn session!  Unfortunately, we do not allow that (ha ha!).  So even though he gave me these big, almost chuckling grins, I eventually wore him out enough to get some traditional newborn poses.  And his big brother was too adorable with him!  Introducing….Noah, my first 2012 […]

I just couldn’t pick 10 favorite images of the newborns I photographed in 2011.  I seriously could have chosen at least one from each of the adorable babies.  So, I went through and picked a variety of images that showed some of my favorite hats, headbands, baskets, props, and sweet babies that melted my heart […]

Another sweet girl born right before Christmas!  Sweet Paige gave me a run for my money – she was awake for quite a bit of her session, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at these precious portraits!

I was lucky to capture a few newborn girls right before the Christmas holiday.  It was fun to try out some of my favorite holiday props with them – and with Elizabeth and her big sister, I just adore this sleigh portrait!  I would love to see this first one in a big canvas!

This little guy is missing his daddy, who had to deploy right before he was born.  Luckily my last beach maternity session of the year was of his parents, so he will be able to look back and see how happy they were together and how much his daddy was looking forward to meeting him.  […]

I was contacted by this little guy’s grandmother just a few weeks before his arrival.  My family travels out of town for the Thanksgiving holiday, and I was not sure that I would be able to return to Virginia Beach in time to capture his birth, but told her I would be on standby for […]

Every once in a while, we have a newborn who visits the studio WIDE awake!  Typically, they are good and asleep from the car ride over, but sometimes I need to employ my mom-of-two-non-sleepers ninja skills.  (ha ha!)  This little beauty came to me the first time (that’s right, it took two tries!!) and was […]