If you follow my work you’ve probably started to feel like you know this family a little bit. Nicole tells me how she’s sometimes recognized around town as “Felicity’s mom”. 🙂 I’ve taken a lot of pictures of this family. I’ve been photographing a “Year in the Life” of this family for a year and a half now. We commemorated Felicity’s first year with monthly sessions, and now we’re doing the same for baby brother Colton.
They’ve become a regular part of my life. I’m going to miss them when they move away! Oh man, I can’t even think about it yet. Luckily we have a couple of sessions left before I have to emotionally deal with losing my friend to another far away state. Love her. 🙁 And luckily I have lots and lots of photos to remember them by!
I had the awesome opportunity of doing both a Newborn Portrait session for Colton (check it out here) and this Family Lifestyle session with the whole gang during Colton’s first month. Sessions like this one are a great way to go if you would prefer a more documentary feel to your newborn session and would like to have the whole family involved. Lifestyle sessions focus on commemorating your life and relationships with your newest little one in the comfort of your own home in a relaxed and fun way. It’s a no pressure way to preserve your real life at a time that is both precious and so fleeting, a time when it’s hard to find the time and energy to get your camera out and take those photos you know you should take… and know you will cherish forever. Because every time you blink they grow up a little bit more.
One of my favorite things to do is recreate photos with the same family over time, taking the “same” photo during a newborn session and a first year session, or in this case taking the same photos of a fourth child as we did with the third. We recreating several moments from Felicity’s 1 month session during Colton’s 1 month session and it’s really fun to what has changed over time.
One of my very favorite photos of Felicity was taken in this exact spot during HER 1 month Lifestyle session, an impromptu shot of her yawning. Find it here.
Here’s what she was doing when we were photographing mom and little brother in the above series, the behind the scenes look at what was really happening below Nicole’s waist. Hehe. My first “Year in the Life” baby all grown up… and a little upset, for just a moment, that she wasn’t the center of attention. This will go down as another of my favorite photos (and there are a lot!) of Felicity. 🙂
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