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newborns

  • maternitysessioncharlottesville

    families, Featured sessions, newborns

    Featured: At-home maternity and newborn sessions with the Hamby family

    This family has been with me since I first got to Charlottesville and they were expecting their first baby. A lot has changed since then, including my photography style and a second baby! When we met for their first journey plan, they were in transition while they built their dream home. Now that they’re in it, we kept this maternity session cozy by celebrating a simple weekend morning of breakfast and backyard time, playing and reading books together. At this point, the nursery was still relatively empty, so we wrapped up by taking a moment in there to embrace the season of waiting and life before 3 became 4 (+ dog 🙂 ).

    · 1 min read

  • fresh48sessionwithsiblings

    Featured sessions, newborns

    Featured: Meet the Siblings Fresh 48

    Earlier this year, I introduced the Kirkpatrick family and a little bit about their story through their documentary maternity session at the park and sharing family traditions on a chilly, winter morning. Well the waiting finally came to fruition as they welcomed sweet baby Henry to the world a few weeks ago, and I was able to capture these proud older siblings meeting their newest addition for the very first time.

    · 1 min read

  • documentary maternity session

    client tips, maternity, newborns

    Your Maternity Session Is Not About Your Bump

    Maternity photos used to be unheard of. Now they’re trendy. And because of that, there’s this huge misconception surrounding maternity sessions – what they’re supposed to look like, how you’re supposed to dress, ya da ya da ya. We’ve been conditioned, slowly but surely, to believe that a maternity session is a right of passage when you get pregnant. We follow this cookie cutter model and curl our hair and buy a new dress and imagine the dreamy, backlit glow.

    · 3 min read