This sweetie is one of my Year in the Life babies. She started out small and now, well, see for yourself.
Posts Tagged ‘Connecticut Baby Photographer’
How to Display your Images: The Image Box
May 14, 2010Let’s face it, there are only so many pictures you can hang on the wall and put in frames on shelves. But there you are, faced with a gallery of 30+ images going “OK, so one for my desk, and one for your desk, and one for my mother and… but I want them ALL!”
One of my favorite ways to have them all is the image box. What, you ask, is an “image box”? Well, it’s a box. Oh, you’d figured that part? It has one of the prints from your session on the front and more prints inside. Kind of like this:
The prints can be mounted on archival matboard so you can display one at a time on an easel.
If you decide on mounted images you are limited as to how many you can have as, well, it is unlikely that all the images from your session would FIT in a box once they were mounted. If you want regular, unmounted prints you get them all because, quite simply, they’ll all fit.
Fresh Faces Contest Winner!
May 13, 2010With the most unique comments in the month of April, Sweet Little Girl won the voting contest. Please pick one of these for your mounted 11X14 wall portrait.
Our VERY CLOSE runner up, who had more total votes but fewer in the month of April, was Itty Bitty Sleepy Girl. I’ll send you a surprise runner up prize (I mean, you were SO close) so watch the mail for a package later this month!
My La Leche League Display
May 7, 2010This was such a fun conference to display at. This is actually the second year I’ve had a table in the Hall of Exhibitors (which sounds a bit more impressive than it actually was) and I had a blast. There were cute babies and toddlers everywhere, it’s a crowd that likes a baby picture and I got to talk to so many fascinating people, give out breastfeeding advocacy magnets with one of my breastfeeding portraits on it to nurses, doctors and WIC personnel and show off my newborn portraits and children’s portraiture to everybody.
My display:
Some other exhibitors. Click on their snapshots to go visit their web sites. All are fabulous women who had some great things out for sale. I must have one of Herrickfield Designs felted bags and if I ever have another baby (hah) I will be getting Bean Tree Baby to set me up with a wardrobe of carriers to get me through.
Sarah Herrick of Herrickfield Designs Needle Felting
Bean Tree Baby at the La Leche League Conference
Erica and Keith Grossman, Bradley Childbirth Educators in Manchester, CT
3 Weeks Old and She’s Already Cuter Than You
April 26, 2010Well, she is. If it’s any consolation she’s cuter than I am as well.
I photographed this little beauty on Saturday morning. She was right in the middle of her 3-week growth spurt and made me work for it but time, patience, lots of food, womb sounds and loud shushing resulted in some final sleeping images that are just adorable as well as some great looks of wide eyed wonder.
Pretty New Location
April 25, 2010Isn’t this spot gorgeous? I did a shoot last weekend for a 1-year-old here and need to remember to schedule daffodil sessions next spring. It had rolling hills of daffodils, old stone walls, old stone steps, paths, a pond (with an island that had yet more daffodils) and then some more daffodils.
April Contest – Fresh Faces Abound!
March 30, 2010As you may know I did a slew of Fresh Faces shoots in February and March. It is, after all, the slow season here in the frozen northeast and what better time to add some new babies to the portfolio and try out a few new poses? And the mothers were all such good sports, bringing me their babies to photography when they weren’t even two weeks old yet! Each model got a free session and an 8X10 of their choice (or their mother’s choice – so few newborns really have an opinion on their portraits yet.) BUT, they were all so adorable and delightful I wanted to share them all with you and thought – hey! I haven’t had a contest in a while.
So.. here’s the rules:
- Vote for one baby via the comments on the original blog post (not Facebook – trying to keep track of two voting areas would make me battier than I already am).
- One vote per person, please.
- All votes/comments have to be placed in April to count.
- Voting closes on April 30th, 2010
The baby with the most votes wins a mounted 11X14 of the image in his or her blog post; if there are multiple images in the post the parents can choose which one they want. AND one random commenter on the winning baby will get a $25 gift certificate. Go forth and solicit votes from parenting boards, Facebook, family, friends, coworkers and total strangers on the streets.
Though I hope people will play fair I am not going to try to figure out if the same person has used 10 different emails and 10 different names to stuff the ballot box. You’re on the Honor System.
Here’s a quick listing of all the babes:
Baby in a Hat
Baby in a Sling
A Boy and His Mother
Sleepy Girl
Wide Awake Boy
Itty Bitty Girl
Sweet Little One
9 Baby Faces
Sleeping Girl
Baby C
3-Week-Old Baby Sleeping Like an Angel
March 29, 2010
Isn’t she just the sweetest thing you have ever seen? The sweetness of newborns never stops amazing me. She was a sleeper, and the last of my Fresh Faces models. I’ve had babies who couldn’t be woken up for love, money or even food and babies who couldn’t be coaxed to sleep even in an 85 degree room with full tummies. That’s one thing you always have to remember about photographing newborns – you just have to go with the flow.
Now this little sweetie was older than I usually like to do newborns; she was over 3 weeks. I like to schedule them in that 4-7 day range as that, usually, makes for sleepy babies who still curl up into adorable little balls. Once they get a little older the shoot can be harder as they are more alert, less, well, bendy and 3 weeks can be a very difficult age as that 3-week newborn growth spurt can result in a baby who wants to eat 20 hours out of the day. As you can undoubtedly tell from her picture she was, despite her advanced age of 3 weeks, quite happy to sleep.
Sweet Little One | West Hartford Newborn Photographer
March 27, 2010I have just a few more of these adorable babies from my Fresh Faces sessions to put on the blog and then, in April, there is going to be a new blog contest. Keep your eyes peeled for the chance to win an 11X14 mounted print of your baby!
Itty Bitty Sleepy Girl | Connecticut Baby Portraits
March 26, 2010I am wrapping up my spring Fresh Faces project and have a pile of neatly packaged prints to take to the post office including some of this little cutie. Isn’t she a sweetheart? She decided to arrive on the scene a wee bit early and as a result was one of the smallest peanuts I got to play with so far this year. You can see her in my Simply Babies gallery too, which I have totally redesigned and refreshed after this winter’s baby rush.
Newborn portraits are such a delight to do. I get to see all the wonder of new life. Sure, I get peed on during most sessions (though not, actually, during this one). And urped on. And now and again I get pooped on, but there is a reason I wear jeans to the sessions and the joy of a little baby is more than worth the many fluids that come out of them. All of which is to say, in the babbly way that lets you know it’s been an interesting day with my twins, that I have the best job in the world.
