Easter

I'm so far behind with this, but life has been busy!
Here are a few photos from our fun little Easter - my husband took some pictures, too!

And here is Easter last year.  Hard to believe how big she's gotten!

My New Model

Before my maternity shoot yesterday, I wanted to make sure all the lights were set up correctly.  I asked my husband to help me model a few poses (which he decided to tweak a bit).  He was even crazy enough to stuff a pillow up his shirt.

Bubbles

Emery has started getting extremely excited when my husband comes home from work.  Combine that with bubbles, and she's in heaven.

She's such a daddy's girl.

Here's a little storyboard for you:

Smiles

While working on taking some photos for an Etsy vendor today, I managed to snap this photo of Emery - one of the few where she wasn't upset with me.

Newborns

In an ideal world, 90%...okay...maybe 80%...of my clients would be newborns.  Don't get me wrong, I love children and families and couples and, well, pretty much everyone, but there's something about a wrinkly little newborn that melts my heart.

I attempting to take pictures of my daughter when she was a newborn.  They were...um...interesting.  Lets just say my talent was not quite where it is now.  Here - I'll show you an example:

You may not be able to see it when it's this small, but let me tell you - it's GRAINY.  And that blanket did not work well for that shoot.

Anyways.

Now that I have a newborn shoot coming up (actually, several), and I have all sorts of "fancy" props and equipment, I thought I'd get it out and practice.  Since there are no newborns at my house, Bitty Baby volunteered.  She wasn't very cooperative.  

Here Fishy Fishy...

I have always loved the fish bowl pictures that I've seen photographers do.  They looked like so much fun.  However, whenever a photographer posted one, a bunch of people would get on their cases about the treatment of the poor goldfish.

Well - here is my fish picture.  No fish were harmed during the taking of this picture because there were no fish actually used!

Except goldfish crackers...

I love this girl.

Behind the Scenes

As you can see, my husband has once again neglected to mow the yard.  So...picture time it is!  While I was out taking some pictures for some wonderful Etsy vendors, I got some "behind the scenes" shots.

Even Odin loves to get in on it: