Richmond Virginia Newborn Photographer | Baby Hudson

This family has been a part of my career as a photographer for many years!  Austin was actually an amazing babysitter for us while she was going through nursing school, and now she's all grown up and has gotten married and just had a baby of her own!  I was honored to be able to capture their engagement session, wedding, maternity, birth, and newborn session which included Hudson!  It's amazing how much a baby can change in a week, but he was the perfect model for his studio session.  You will see more of him soon because we are also doing a lifestyle session at his home in a few weeks!

Richmond VA Newborn Photographer | Baby S

This family has chosen to do the baby plan with me (which consists of a maternity, newborn, 6 months + 1 year session- where the whole family can be included each time!) and I am loving getting to see them every few months!  This sweet baby came in for her newborn portraits and was a total rockstar!  And then opened her eyes for family pictures at the end with a sweet little smile. (Don't tell me newborns don't REALLY smile, I know that! But I'm just over here living in my photographer dream world where babies smile at me!) 

Here are a few of my favorites with her family:

Richmond VA Photographer | Baby's First Year

I have been shooting this family for years, and now, they've added their third baby, a sweet boy, to the mix!  So far for this baby we have covered a maternity session, a newborn session, and a 6-month one.  The only thing we have left in the baby plan is the 1 year that includes a cake smash (I provide the cake and decor!)  I love the baby plans because babies change so much in that first year and it's a privilege to see them grow up!  From curling up (we took River's newborn portraits in the best spot... down by the RIVER ;) at the newborn session to smiling at the 6 months, it's a great way to capture your whole family for a year.  Here are a few of my favorite images from our sessions:

Richmond VA Newborn Photographer | B Family

Most of my newborn sessions take place in my studio, but every so often I get invited to go into clients homes and do a lifestyle session.  They are a bit different because instead of all the posing we really focus on the family and getting snuggles in their elements.  We shoot in their favorite spots: The newly decorated nursery, their bedroom all cuddled up, and of course your first baby (the furry one!) can be included during this time.  It's such a nice way to capture the first few weeks without rushing to leave the house because I know that can be tricky post delivery when you are learning a whole new way to do everything.  

Richmond VA Newborn Photographer | Baby Jameson

This little guy came to my photography studio in Chesterfield and brought many sweet faces with him.  Sometimes newborns have a hard time focusing when they are awake, but his eyes were perfectly in line with the camera.  His session had a lot of variety: sleeping and awake poses, and also pictures with big sister and his whole family!  Style wise, we opted to keep things mostly muted to accommodate this family's wishes. 

Richmond VA Newborn Photographer | Carli

This sweet baby girl came to the studio for her newborn session and I believe she (without being a twin or quad!) was the smallest baby I have worked with, not quite 5 pounds at the session.  She was great at snuggling up to pose and I didn't see her eyes until the session was over and they were dressing her to go home!  We wanted the session to be feminine and pink to match her cute nursery, and I made that sweet headband just for her the night before the session!  I'm having fun experimenting with different wraps, outfits, and headbands for my clients!  Most of what I have now is custom and one of a kind!  

I love working with newborns so if you know of an expecting mama in the Richmond, Virginia and surrounding area please send her my way! :) 

Richmond VA Newborn Photographer | Baby Benjamin

Ohhh sweet baby Benji!  (Totally acceptable for me to give sweet baby's a nickname, right?)  And side story, we named our first two boys "Eli" and "Luke" because we weren't a fan of nicknames, but more often than not we call them "Li" and "Lu."  

I recently read where photographers weren't a fan of parents IN the room with their baby's during the newborn session, some photographers went as far as to say parents WEREN'T ALLOWED in the room.  YIKES you guys!  You couldn't peel me off of my boys so there is no crazy rule like that in my studio.  I love that you get to watch this session, and you are literally two feet away from us the whole time.  Now, I will admit you don't have the best view because I always pose to a particular side and unfortunately the couch is pretty much right beside baby's butt, so THAT's your view, but I also encourage you to walk around and get a non-butt view too ;) 

Benjamin was such a sweet baby and rocked his first modeling session!  His mama booked a mini session for him, which tends to have more simple styling and not quite as many set ups as a full session, but definitely allows you to still have great images of your baby!

Here are a few of my favorites from our time together: