What A Little Cutie! Our Latest Newborn Photo Shoot

We had the absolute pleasure of photographing little baby Reagan in our studio this week. Reagan is only a few weeks old and I'm sure you'll all agree she's a little cutie!

Reagan's mum - actually it's "mom" because she is from the states Candice was very well prepared for the shoot and came along with the most beautiful little headband and hat that she had been sent from a photographer friend in the US.

Newborn and baby photography in the US is big business and I have to say we are very influenced by the best of them. When it comes to using props such as crochet hats and baskets, cocoons, even slings like the stalk may bring the US photographers are streets ahead of us over here in the UK. In fact it's rather diffult to source good props over here in our experience - for our baby hats we have had the pattens sent from the US and had one of our grannies make them for us!

We hope that we can make a difference to how babies are photographed over here. We have changed the way we shoot newborn sessions so that they take a lot longer (usually around 2 - 3 hours) and during the shoot the baby will be awake, sleep and generally very chilled out. The whole experience is designed to be minimum of stress and maximum of pleasure for the parents. We hope that Candice and Dad Jake found this to be the case for little Reagan's photo session.

So - on with the pictures! The three we've selected here are three of our favourites but the whole shoot can be viewed on the slideshow.

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We wish Candice, Jake and Reagan well and look forward to welcoming them all back to our studio for more photos as the family grows!

This Is What Happens When People Talk....

....we get more bookings! The phone rang....the voice on the other end said "You have just taken some pictures of my friend and her family and I'd like to book in too...." We love it when this happens (obviously!) because these are the best bookings to have. Not only have the come from a personal recommendation but it means that the person coming for the portraits already know what our style is like and they like it. In this instance Karen and her family are friends with Mandy in the previous post.

I love the following two shots, not only because of the symmetry in them but also because they really shows how well matched Karen and her husband are - right down to the shoes on their feet! Who says being a great photographer is down to people watching? It's a lot more than that....you could say it starts from the bottom up!