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!
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!
I’m so excited about this lovely weather we are having in Colorado. Broomfield has been sunny and hot and wonderful!
I’m sure/I hope we get at least one more snowstorm, though.
This is a quick post about two new newborn props I’m super excited about. Hungry Caterpillar and Sock Monkey!
These are what they look like while they are patiently waiting for adorable newborns to come wear them!
I think they look at little…lonley, don’t you?
I have about 50 different newborn props, and parents love looking through them all, to select their favorite.
I hope one of my wonderful parents will select them soon. 😉
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Baby toes, Baby toes…I love me some Baby Toes!
Cocoon by the very talented Amy of ZaneyBaby on Etsy.
]]>children.) Here is one of my favorite images from this newborn session, and here is what the mamma wrote me today.Thank you Kamala, for this lovely testimonial. You are such a beautiful soul! I loved our Maternity + Newborn sessions!
I am so happy we had a photo session of our baby boy, Zane, with Natascha of Natascha Lee Studios. We are thrilled with the results. After many attempts, my husband and I were unable to take photo of our newborn we were satisfied with, even with our new camera. When Natascha showed me the slideshow of the photos she took, I got so emotional I cried! Our son is growing and changing so fast, I look at these photos and my heart opens and remembers those first weeks we shared together. Only a professional can truly share this experience with us new moms and dads. I am so grateful of Natascha’s talent and artistic eye that captured those precious moments. -Kamala V.
If you are in the Broomfield or surrounding areas (Westminster, Highland, Denver, Golden, Louisville, Lafayette, Boulder) – give me a call if you would like a Maternity + Newborn session combo.]]>
The last of three handy-dandy guides for styling for children’s sessions. Don’t forget that these ideas can easily be adapted to older children, too.
I would LOVE to do the “Little Gardener” theme session.
Special note to KS, mother of the penguin-loving beautiful boy A,: are you game? We can include the old fashioned bike! 😉
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