Let it rain! Studio sessions are not affected at all by the rain. I use studio lights which consistently create light that looks like window light, regardless of what is going on outside.   Will it affect my outdoor session? Well, yes. : )  If you have an outdoor session scheduled, we can either reschedule or make it […]

This family is where it all started. I was already shooting film. If you don’t know, I shoot weddings too, and I had already been incorporating film into my wedding work for a few years. For some reason, the idea of shooting a family session or gasp! a newborn session on film was so much […]

I shoot newborns in studio, just the way they are, no props, no posing. I think babies already have so much personality on their own, and there is already so much to photograph! Baby toes, baby ears, baby fingers, whispy baby hairs. I get all the details. I don’t put babies in baskets or bowls. […]

Yes, you read that right – Newborn Twin Portraits! Twins!! So exciting!! It won’t come as a surprise that shooting newborn twin portraits take a bit more patience, and a bit more time than shooting just one baby. With one baby, I usually budget at most 2 hours for a session. With twins, it might […]

One of my top questions, “When is the best time to do newborn photos?” First off, let me just say: Congratulations! Your baby has arrived! And now I know you’d like to do some portraits of you new little nugget. The best time for newborn photos is in the first 2 weeks. I know this […]

I get this question often: What colors work well with newborn photographs? For newborn photographs I believe generally, lighter solid colors are great. I love moms in neutral colors, white is always great, but anything in the light pastel range. Dads look great in button down shirts. Be mindful of shirts with logos, those can […]

Hollis is a really special baby to me. I’ve known her parents for a really long time and her mom is a good friend. I shot Maryam’s maternity pictures, which I’ll be posting a bit later, when she was about a week away from delivery. During our session she was asking what I thought about […]

Really I should call this post “My love affair with film,” because that’s really what it is. I learned on film. I started shooting when I was 11, in the seventh grade (yes I was 11, and turned 12 in the 7th grade.) I spent hours in the dark room, it was my happy place. […]

Um. Yes. The first two weeks of life are unlike any other time. Its quite literally the only time in their entire life they will be that small. Those little newborn details don’t stick around for very long. They’ll never fold up like that again, they’ll never be so tiny. It’s a really special time, […]