Posts Tagged: maternity portraits
My love of details in photography
As we straddle the seasons (what North Carolinians know as “my new daffodils invited the last snow” season), I’m noticing the details everywhere. It got me thinking about the details I love to capture in my photographs. There is always a subject – always a story being told – but it’s the details that we hover over.
In that vein – here are some favorites. Happy Spring, gang! Don’t worry – you’ll get that hour back one way or another.
Engagements
Engagement portraits speak to love and the anticipation of your public union. But for me, these images are transformed when I can capture the small glances, the body English, the closeness between the almost married. These images take my breath away still.
Maternity
Maternity portraits are some of my favorites. Mothers in that mode of nesting and at their most happy, full and ripe. But I always encourage the father or father-to-be to take part in front of the camera. The union of the parents always comes through in the images and the details of care and excitement come through.
Newborns
There aren’t enough blog posts to contain my favorite images of babies being …………. babies.
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs newborns and families, special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
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Awww, Sweetness……..Baby Faces!
Gearing up for Valentine’s Day has me thinking about the unadulterated cuteness of the babies I’m honored to photograph. For maternity sessions, I am engaged in capturing the excitement and anticipation of the parents. After that, my time with newborns and babies is an embarrassment of riches. Their big eyes looking for friendly faces, if not meaning yet, their crazy cute features from lashes to teeny toes, the expressions they make, the outfits and settings mothers and I concoct, …. it’s all heaven. So here’s to baby faces I love.
If you are expecting or know someone who is, we hope you will contact us or encourage them to. Maternity, newborn, 6 month, one year portraits are my jam, as a photographer and a mom. I would love to meet and work with you to capture those memories and milestones.
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs newborns and families, special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License All photos are ©2021 Pixels On Paper. Do not copy, crop, or remove watermark.
Oh, Dear Moms – Maternity photos
Currently, our son is testing me as much as delighting me. If you know, you know. They go from soft little bundles to opinionated, frustrated, little testers. I laugh, smile and pray some days, and cry, search for my sanity, and pray others. But I stay the course. Discipline, repetition, consistency, guidance, cuddles, consequences, and did I mentioned prayer? Those are all part of this child-rearing season for me.
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, I wanted to revisit some favorite maternity portraits I’ve taken and remind myself that the journey is not one chapter. And so much of motherhood is a series of miracles. Enjoy!
Outdoor maternity portraits – including those with gowns, siblings, flowers, vistas, whatever – are an elegant way to capture motherhood. I know from the ladies you see in these images, that many of the portraits became gifts.
These mamas are perfect. They are all on this motherhood journey at the moment, and while the days are long and the years are short, there’s no better role to play than that of Mom.
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs newborns and families, special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License All photos are ©2021 Pixels On Paper. Do not copy, crop, or remove watermark.
Expecting Baby Tibbett – Maternity Photos
Lovely redhead Brooke Tibbett is expecting her first baby. There’s something about new life and spring in an orchard that reminds me that the world keeps spinning, flowers will bloom and new members to the world are being added all the time. In our little corner, we celebrated Brooke.
Ryan and I photographed Brooke and Joey’s engagement portraits at Moses Cone Manor in Blowing Rock, and later their beautiful wedding at the Gambill Estate. We loved getting to know them. We haven’t seen these two since their wedding day. Brooke chose the most gorgeous dress for the setting and the shoot. She looked like one of the blooms.
Brooke’s husband Joey, and the father-to-be, was hovering on this shoot with us. The peach orchards were exploding with blooms and he wanted his wife to be the star. Even with Joey hanging out in the background, you could feel the excitement of these two. Did I mention that it was awesome seeing these two again?
I cannot wait to meet the new Tibbett, and to watch this family grow. Congratulations Brooke and Joey! It won’t be long now.
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs newborns and families, special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License All photos are ©2021 Pixels On Paper. Do not copy, crop, or remove watermark.
Expecting baby Triplett
If you follow this blog with any regularity, you’ve heard my sermons about the importance of capturing milestones because once they are gone, they are gone for good. Here’s another story from the file folder and it happened recently.
Tabitha, a school mate of mine, called me about her daughter Caitlin who is expecting a baby. She wanted to make sure that she had maternity portraits taken. In the past few months, Tabitha lost several family members and was feeling the sadness that comes from loss and the passage of time. She was determined that memories and milestones, especially for her own child, would not be missed. So at 34 weeks, this gorgeous mom to be, her husband and Tabitha herself all met me for an outdoor maternity photo session.
We met at a park where we could socially distance while taking advantage of the natural elements. I LOVE these photos. They invigorate me. I love the light, their smiles, and the sense of expectation and hope in a year that has been largely about challenges and worry about the future.
Expecting mothers have loads of fears and now there are even more. They want their own moms to be present during the birth and that is difficult during a pandemic. The new restrictions, on top of the usual anxiety, make pregnancy even harder. These photo shoots are a time to put them at ease and allow me to be an “encourager” as well as a photographer.
It won’t be long now before Caitlin and Matthew are holding their new baby and feeling like the world is shifting toward the light. A new baby is a blessing, even during the toughest times and I’m so delighted that Tabitha was so adamant about making this happen for her daughter and son-in-law. The images are gorgeous.
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs newborns and families, special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States LicenseAll photos are ©2020 Pixels On Paper. Do not copy, crop, or remove watermark.