Welcome to the world and congratulations family!  She is a gorgeous baby and so mellow to photograph.  I can tell you are all in love with her already.  And without further ado…

I find that a lot of times my photography needs more than one photo to tell a story.  The faces of children especially are so fluid and changing that it is impossible to capture it all in a single photo.  Yes, you can get one single beautiful photo, but it does not reflect the whole child.  I like tryptchs because they do allow you to group images to tell a story.

It seems like everyone around me has the same sort of harried, overwhelmed feeling of too much to do in too little time.  It seems like we get so wrapped up in it that we forget what “it” is.  As I was editing this session from last week, these smiles just popped out at me and I had to share, because they made me smile and I hope they will you too.

I recently did a session a family expecting their second child.  The mom wanted to do a sunset maternity shot like I have on the calendar page of my main website.  Of course, every shoot is different, so the weather decided to make sure it was different and threatened to rain on us several times at the beautiful New England farm they got us permission to shoot on.  We got to go in the corn and we got to use their beautiful hill to photograph K’s silouette on.  This first shot was done when the sun started peaking through the clouds, making a gorgeous backdrop for K.  Their son is such a sweetie and I can’t wait to see him as a big brother when the new baby comes.  BTW K., I’m making something for the new baby.  I hope I can finish it in time.

I have always wanted to photograph children on the Guilford Green, it is such a lovely place, so I was delighted when this family decided to have me photograph them there.

Ten years ago today, I was holding this guy in my arms, shocked silly that I was now a parent. He’s been turning out to be a smart, generous, intuitive and loving guy. Happy Birthday Avery!!!

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Kathy and John are getting married this weekend and I will be photographing their wedding. I went last weekend to get a few shots of them before, just to get us used to each other and learn a little more about them. They are a very sweet couple and I can’t wait to photograph their wedding. Here’s a few photographs from last weekend–more to come after the wedding.

I was so excited to go and photograph young master Eli. I just recently did a maternity session with his parents and it’s so cool to see the transformation of a couple to a family. Eli is a beautiful baby as you can see below and we spent a lot of time to try to do him justice. Without further ado, Welcome to the World, Eli!!!

I had photographed this family before at a baby’s blessing ceremony and didn’t realize it as they were part of the many guests at that event. I also didn’t realize the mom was pregnant at the time so I actually sort of photographed the whole family even though the little baby girl was not born yet. Anyway, I’m so glad that I got to photograph this family at their home at relaxed pace to let their personalities unfold. I am sharing a few here so you all can see how beautiful they are.

I recently was commissioned to photograph a couple expecting their first baby (and the baby when he gets here) and an interesting thing happened while we were outside setting up some belly shots. What I really love about maternity and newborn sessions is that I have time to really observe and use natural light to highlight the emotions and beauty of this time of enormous changes. So, we’re getting Brandi’s belly in just the right light (actually the shadow of a tree) when pure sunlight pokes through the leaves and leaves this pattern on her belly that I had to capture:

Lou and Brandi were so easy going and ready to try new things so we tried a different angle on maternity.

L and B, it was really nice to get a little peak into your lives and I can’t wait to see you as new parents in your new home.