Siblings, 8 Days New

In-home newborn sessions are some of my favourite sessions. They are some of my most popular sessions too. I think it's because as soon as your newborn is here you realize that it's easier when people come to you because getting out of the house suddenly takes foooorever!! Not to mention how stressful driving anywhere with a baby in a carseat can be. Oh I remember that dreaded stop light!! I remember pumping the brake or rocking my whole body back and forth causing the car to shake a bit! Anything to keep that baby from crying which often resulted in making my milk leak everywhere. This is not how a newborn sessions should start. And that is exactly why I love coming to the home. No need to bundle up and get in the car. I bring everything to you! We take our time, follow baby's lead, and have plenty of changes of clothes if we need. If siblings are involved, they get to just be in their home with their toys being themselves without the pressure of sitting quietly and not touching everything around the studio. And no joke, sometimes mom and dad will go lay down and take a nap while my camera and I make magic with their sweet little squishy newborn. And I don't mind. Even if that means I hang around for a little extra time to cuddle baby while they rest. I get it, you take advantage of every possible moment to sleep! Of course, my number one question about in home newborn sessions is, but what about the mess? Well, first, mess is life. In fact, mess is a sign of a very lived life! And it's impossible to stay tidy with a newborn. But regardless, I avoid photographing the mess. I work in small spaces. Pockets of light. You will have no idea that your home can look so good so messy! Here is a fine example of the small spaces I work in. Image A is a pullback of the scene that created image B. 

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And if you scroll down, you can see the pictures from when I spent the morning with this beautiful family in their home when their new little baby was only 8 days old. You can see right away that the other added bonus of an in-home session is the personal touch! The backdrop is very you and is very unique to anyone else's images! 

Thanks for looking! Continue on to my older posts or see more in-home sessions. 

Adventures of Queen Adelaide & Moth

The day started with costume day at school. Adelaide dressed as a super fairy princess, and Audrey a Moth. 

Well, at the end of the day Adelaide wasn't very happy with her costume. She said everyone was making fun of her and calling her the tooth fairy and she was not a tooth fairy. Now, I'm sure by "everyone" she means a few people, but nonetheless, she clearly was no longer feeling her costume. So, I told her that when she was 5 days old that we still didn't have a name for her, and then Julian came across the name Adelaide which was the name of a German princess who married a British prince named William and later became queen. Queen Adelaide's birthday was August 13th, the same as my mothers and my daughter Adelaide was born on my mothers mothers birthday! So, now it was easily decided, she was going as Queen Adelaide. With a half fast hemming job, boom, she had a beautiful gown to wear for the night! 

After stopping at our friend Mala's house who gave the girls sweet and a book, (a book which just so happened to be my very favourite book when I was in grade 1, no joke) we saw the beautiful sun set and then headed out in to the night! 

I must admit, it was a hard year to photograph because there were so many kids out and of course I try to avoid taking pictures of other kids out of respect...unless a parents asks me to snap one, which definitely happens. However, too many children trick or treating is nothing to complain about. It was so nice to see especially when I hear so many people say that they have less and less kids each year. Well the girls collected so much candy! And there was a noticeable difference in the amount of Nestle products this year in my 'hood! Way way less!!! Go team!!