Mother's Day Gift Certificate | Baby and Family Portrait Photography in Broomfield, Colorado by Natascha Lee Studios

A quick image to share how lovely our gift certificates look!

The perfect gift for mothers and mothers-to-be:  custom portrait photography from Natascha Lee Studios.

Comes fully framed and ready to gift! (Flowers not included. 😉

Portrait Gift Certificate for Mother's Day from Broomfield, Colorado Baby, Children and Family Photography by Natascha Lee Studios

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Excited and Proud Big-Sister-To-Be | Maternity, Baby and Family Photography by Natascha Lee Studios in Broomfield, Colorado

This little girl is sooo excited to be a big sister. Here is a sneak peek of the maternity portrait session I did for her mamma (a fellow photographer!).

I’m thrilled to have so many maternity sessions right around Mother’s Day.

Speaking of, a photography session makes a GREAT gift to request (or give) for Mother’s Day!

Broomfield, Colorado Baby and Maternity Photography by Natascha Lee Studios

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Lovely Mother and Father – To Be | Maternity Portraits by Natascha Lee Studios in Westminster, Colorado

I’ve had a slew of maternity sessions recently. Seems so appropriate with Mother’s Day coming up.

I promised this lovely couple a sneak peek, and here it is.

For those who haven’t worked with me before, I post a “sneak peek” image or two before your viewing session.

The viewing session is where I share your image gallery with you, typically around 30 images.

I just love seeing the reaction on my clients faces when they see their *Stunning* images for the first time.

Are you expecting, or know someone who is? A Maternity + Newborn session is a wonderful baby shower gift.

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Yay Motherhood – In Celebration of Mothers (Mini Session Give-Away) | Broomfield, Colorado Family Portraits by Natascha Lee Studios

In Celebration of Mothers Those who have spoken with me know that I am pretty passionate about photographing mothers and fathers with their children; not just the children alone, but children with their parents as well! How else can you truly capture the love and special connection of a family? When I get push back on this (“Oh, no I don’t want to be in the photos – just the kids!”), I ask:

What is *your* most cherished childhood photo?

Is it the one of you smiling big on your first day of school? The one where you are holding up a Christmas gift? One where you are sleeping on the beach?  Or is it one that includes your parents, playing with you, holding you, just being themselves?

For most of us, our most cherished images include our parents, and show the love we felt for each other. They might not be technially perfect, they probably aren’t cheesy posed images; they are real and they are precious. I worry that mothers are taking hundreds (thousands?) of images of their kids, and not including themselves in hardly any of them! I want to encourage all those moms who take tons of snapshots of their kids, to make sure that they themselves are in at least some of them. It’s not hard, I promise! Have your spouse take a turn with the camera/phone, ask another parent to snap a few, hold the camera or phone out the way you do when you take pix with your bestie, or even give the camera to your kiddo and ask them to take your photo. (Just make sure you position your kiddo or yourself so they aren’t shooting up your nostrils. ) That photo where your hair wasn’t perfect but you were having a snow fight with your kids? Or the one where your smile is a little lopsided and you are still in your PJs? Or the one where you looked tired from being up half the night with the baby but you are lovely gazing down at your todder?  That’ll probably be their favorite. To sweeten the deal and hopefully encourage you more, share your mommy-included-photo (MIP) with me and win a mini photo session!  Post it on my FB page, or tag me in it, or email to me, or even just message me that you did it; no need to share the image if you don’t want to. I’ll enter you into a drawing for a free mini-session with digital negatives. Yay Motherhood!

I’ll end with  a sneak peek of a maternity session I did last night.

I can’t wait to see them again in a month to meet her baby girl and do her newborn pix!

Maternity Photos

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Interesting Photographs of Your Children Just Being Themselves | Broomfield, Colorado Children's Portraiture by Natascha Lee Studios

Check out this lovely project called “You are my Wild” by a group of photographer parents who wanted to put down their camera phones, and capture artistic, authentic images of their kids using their “real” cameras.

It takes more time and effort, but the results are lovely.

This one below is one of my favs from the project:

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