Little Miss Personality

I met Chloe this morning, and she was such a little doll of a baby. Great big deep eyes, and the cutest little button nose and mouth, she was full of giggles and smiles, and made all these funny faces at me. If I had my camera on a tripod this morning, I still would have gotten a hundred great images of this little girl; she really was little miss personality. But don't take it from me... see for yourself!

The most beautiful eyes I've ever seen

I'm not kidding. I thought about naming this post something like "Warning; beautiful eyes alert!" When Elouan came in with his parents a few days ago the first thing I thought was "Oh, my word, look at those eyes. They're fantastically huge." I'm going to stop going on and on about them and back this up with proof, here....



Just great! And those long curly locks? What a gem! I loved Elouan; he was beautiful, animated, and busting with joy. He gave me a gazillion expressions to capture and really made me laugh with his quirky personality. What more can I ask for? Oh, and he was French, too... which was beautiful, but reminded me a little how quickly my French gets rusty. I'm finding lately my little tricks and tactics are tried & true in English but I have to work on my French rapport with children.

Anyhoo, anyhow, here are some gorgeous photos of this little bird with his parents.




This is him winking at me. Does it get any cuter than that??

Ingrid & John

A year ago I was chatting with my best friend Ingrid and she told me she was thinking it might be time to get pregnant. Low and behold, barely a year later I'm photographing her bump! Time does fly when you're having fun!

I didn't love photographing Ingrid & John just because they're my friends and I love them; I loved shooting them because I love them as a couple. They're so much fun! I got some great romantic shots of them together, but I'm really happy I got some really great fun shots of them having fun together.

Needless to say, I'm dying to meet this baby. I've got a feeling it's a little girl. Whichever it is, this baby is going to be born to the greatest parents, and to the greatest surrogate-auntie-photographer they could ever have. :)

Meet Isabella

I met Isabella and her parents not long ago and caught the baby fever all over again; what girl could resist such a cute little button of a baby?

This little family was so sweet and romantic, here are a few of my favorite shots from our session. Can't you just feel the love pouring out of these new parents??

Cute + Cute = Adorable

Holding a baby is such candy for the heart. So can you imagine how it feels to have an armful of babies?


I can't tell you exactly because I was the girl with the camera, but I can tell you it looks pretty amazing. It's no wonder then how happy these parents were during their session with Owen and Liam. Those two little twins were a joy to be around. Here are a few of my favorite portraits from my shoot with them.

Miracle Baby

I was really touched to find out during my session with Peyton that his parents waited for him for twenty years. Isn't that amazing? He's a little miracle baby. And eyes do not get bigger and bluer than Peyton's! He's a beauty of a baby.






I can't claim to know what it feels like to be a parent yet, but when I look at that first photo of Kosta holding Peyton against him, and see a heart so full, joyful and content, I imagine that this is the portrait of how it feels to be a parent.

I have a confession.

I love disheveled hair on kids! LOVE it! And every time a mom asks me the question "is her hair okay?" I will always, always say yes. You'll never see me fixing hair or giving directions on how to style hair. Because little girl hair is always beautiful, and lovely, no matter where, or how it is.

There! I said it. :)

It's all just.... fun!

I am happy when at the end of a session, I hear parents say "Wow! That was fun!" because I've not only accomplished making the session stress-free and easy, but everyone is leaving having had a great time. That feels good!

And it's important, isn't it too? Because you can't very well look like you're having fun in a portrait if you're not. I had a session last week with Via, Avi and Liv (I'm not making this up! It's the magnificent two-syllable family!), and we had SO much fun. I'm giving all the credit to two-year-old Liv, who was a blast to hang out with. I used to think that toddlers were great for maternity sessions because of those beautiful belly shots with mommy's first hanging about, but now I realize there's another thing they're very very good at; lightening the mood and giving moms that lovely smile that could only come from looking at her beautiful child. There's nothing I could say that would evoke a warm and loving smile like that!

Here are a few peeks at my session with these three beautiful happy people, as they wait for Ava.

Itty Bitty Lauren

Oh, newborns... they're so fantastic at pulling on my heart strings. So tiny and perfect and poetic in their movements, there's nothing more lovely than spending an hour photographing them. I met Rachel and her hubby in December for their maternity portraits, and I was so happy to finally meet little Lauren last week. Here she is in all of her glory!