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!

Why Mandy's A Bit Dotty!

Before anyone thinks we are being rude - we didn't say it - Mandy herself did. She's a little bit dotty! To be honest she has every reason to be that way. With a beautiful daughter like Evie and a brilliant Dalmation dog - who unlike a lot of Dalmations we have met was very well behaved - called Kia.

The day before they came for the shoot Evie had just taken her first steps and Kia had helped her to stand up! No kidding! Evie repeatedly stood up and took hold of Kia to help her to balance. Kia seeming to understand that she should move stood perfectly still for her. It was lovely to witness the trust between the two of them.

It's A Green Thing! Grandma's Little Treasure.

Lizzie-Anne's first studio photo shoot. We don't very often get to show pictures like this because the parents often ask us to keep them private, so it makes a nice change to show how creatively we photograph newborns. Hope you like them!

For those who would like to know a session like this normally takes around 2 - 3 hours and requires some patience. Expect to feed your baby whilst you are with us (we have a separate room for privacy). Expect dad's to take their shirt off at some stage - there is nothing more emotive than flesh against flesh in these pictures - as I'm sure you will agree.

A session like this costs £95 for the studio time and editing (no picutres included) a bump session can be added for £50 and after the two there is an option to purchase a special "Bump to Baby and Beyond" acrylic which has 4 x 4" pictures on it for only £100.

We discourage older siblings from attending the newborn session because it takes some time for the photos to be taken as we are working to the baby's schedule and not ours. We find that under 5's often get over excited and bored during this time which in turn has a knock on effect to the session and parents can find this stressful. We are more than happy to arrange a further photo shoot to include siblings (cost £50 for the session) and would suggest that this take place from 3 months onwards. Pictures from the sibling session can be included in the acrylic Bump to Baby frame if you wish.

The full session pictures can be seen here: Lizzie-Anne 4 days old.

New Beginnings

Well the last few weeks have certainly had their ups and downs for us but yesterday saw us at an all time high.

The reason was the safe arrival of our first grand child (yes, I know - we're far too young to be grandparents!)Lizzie-Anne. She made her entrance into the world at 09.42am at Harrogate District Hospital weighing in at 8lbs 14 1/2 - no mean feat for our daughter Natalie who is petite.

Here are some of the first photos of our precious little bundle: