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 | W Family

I love welcoming families to my portrait studio for newborn sessions because it is a one-stop shop. We have all of the props, blankets, outfits you could imagine and I cater the session to your color wishes. And because my studio is in my home (and the studio for a newborn session is a nice 80 degrees!) if older siblings (or even dad!) need to step out, we have a large couch right outside and a bucket of toys waiting.  

This was the second sweet baby girl I photographed for this family, and I am in love with her!  She has the longest little feet and the best head of hair.  Beautiful like big sis, I cannot wait to watch her grow up!

Here are a few favorites from our session together:

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 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 | S Family

If you have a coworker who has recently had an older child, what would be the perfect gift for them?  A newborn mini session of course!  That is just what was gifted to this adorable family.  And in our mini session we did baby alone, with big brother, AND family shots!  Mini sessions have less setups than full sessions and the styling isn't as big, but there is no shortage of super cute pictures.  We just tend to make minimal changes to the baby and surroundings so we can get through a maximum amount of portraits in our shorter time frame. 

Big brother was sooo cute with her and I may or may not have had to dig in to my mini chocolate chip stash that I keep in the fridge (for an occasional treat for myself annnnnd to occasionally bribe the kids ;) to coerce him into cuddling with sister.  Perks of a home studio, my home can open up and find goodies and endless supplies to help your family with any need! 

Here are a few of my favorite pictures with this family:

Richmond VA Newborn Photographer | Tessa Rose

Years ago I had the pleasure of shooting this couple's engagement session, and then recently they came to see me for maternity and newborn portraits as well!  Tessa's middle name is Rose, and in the maternity pictures we included a sweet little rose to honor the upcoming birth of their little girl. I think it's sweet when clients bring a little item or two to really personalize their session.  For Rose's newborn portraits we also incorporated the "rose" into one of the backgrounds!  And before we did family pictures we also used our winter wonderland set since she's so close to being a Christmas baby!  This is such a photographic family, and I'm going to need Ashley to give me makeup tips, isn't she stunning? 

Here are a few peeks into two of my recent sessions with this cute family:

..and here are a few of Ashley's gorgeous maternity pictures!