A most beautiful newborn session

Newborn baby’s are a pure and beautiful existence.  They smell good, feel good, are warm, happy and only they can make a mother feel like their whole purpose has finally been fulfilled in life.  I love the opportunity to photograph newborns and whether they are Fine Art style or Lifestyle, newborn sessions are always beautiful.  A few weeks past I had the opportunity to capture a “few week old” little boy by the name of Jackson.  This is the second beautiful boy that has graced this family and was he ever a little charmer.  I have two boys and I first hand know how lucky this beautiful family is to have the excitement, love and trouble they will endure having these two handsome little guys at the wheel of their family.

I had the opportunity to also introduce this little guy when he was just a little tiny peanut in his mommy when we did a family/maternity/announcement session last fall.  It took two attempts to get that session completed as the weather in Alberta is not always as predictable as we wish it could be.  We made it out to our location to have it start snowing big, wet flakes and the wind started to blow as well, right off the water where we were shooting.  It was freezing and we called it a day.  The next time we tried was perfect and Big Brother did an amazing job letting the world know that HE was going to have a new baby bother or sister to have at home and love as much as he could.

A Lifestyle Newborn Session

The purpose of a Lifestyle session is to not just head over to a booking and start shooting.  The idea of a lifestyle session is that the photographer get’s to spend a few hours at the home of a client and do their best to be the proverbial “fly on the wall” so that they can capture moments that you would not normally see captured by a photographer.  For me the trick is to try and hang out long enough that everyone begins to just forget that I am there and begin acting naturally and comfortably – like if I wasn’t there with a camera capturing image after image.  It normally takes kids the longest to get use to me being there, but once they are I start to get amazing natural and un-posed images that tell the story of the family for that one day, one hour, one moment in time that is now gone and will never get back.  Amazing images can come out of Lifestyle sessions that you can proudly display on your wall and always have to look back on to remember that small blip of time that now you will ever have to forget.  I even keep general editing to a minimum to preserve the exact details of what makes that session so authentic.

This session was amazing and it felt so good to get back to where I started when I begin my business 8 years ago.  My style, equipment, technique and self have changed so much since the the first few times I picked up my camera when I first started.  I love to watch family’s interact and just live while I am in the background.  It is a great feeling to be allowed to share such an intimate time with a family and I am always honored when I am selected to be hired to tell someone’s story.

I hope it is clear that this story is about love, trust, commitment and an enduring need to love – so much so that two beautiful children have been brought into this world to be loved by some of the most genuine people I have ever shot sessions for.  They are outstanding parents and while I am sure they have moments where they shake their heads and wonder why this was the path they chose (because let’s face it…we all do…especially during newborn and toddler phases) they always know that love is the most important thing in the home and how they feel about their children will never change – only grow in strength.

Thank you so much to Megan and Kyle for sharing your kids with my camera for an afternoon – it was a pleasure and always an awesome time.

Why hello!

Lots to see

Nothing like mom.

I am hungry and pouty!

Never too big to sit on daddy’s shoulders

Sincere kisses between bothers are always beautiful

Time for a change.

Perfection