LAKEN: 7 mos. old

This is Laken. Her mommy is my hair dresser. Go figure...the hair dresser's baby is the one with no hair. I think I remember her mommy telling me she was about 3 yr. old before she had hair. It's like Laken will be at least walking before she has hair!

Love, love that you can see her eyelashes in this one.

She has striking eyes like her mommy and big brother.

A FLOWER STORYBOARD...

She was such a happy baby and I have been told that is so typical of her!

When Laken came in, we photographed her with her siblings too. I will try to post them later.

JULIA: 7 MONTHS OLD

BABY JULIA WAS ONE OF MY NEWBORN BABIES.

This image of Julia was used in 5x30 vertical storyboard.

Below is 10x20 horizontal storyboard of her.
This was an ordered print. I just love this bonnet!
Julia and her mommy and daddy
I love her eyes in this one....especially her eyelashes.
For more images of Julia with her grandparents and her cousin checkout: Hatch Extended Family Portrait Session (I think that's what I called it).

BRITTON 7 MONTHS OLD

When I was searching for images to show a client, I didn't realize that I had already posted these of Britton until I got these together. So some of these may repeat....you could also look at the post titled: CUTE BABY A RECENT SESSION THIS FALL (under December 2007).

A FEW SQUARE COLLAGES AND 10X20 STORYBOARDS OF BRITTON

MADISON: 7 MOS. OLD

As you can see Madison is wearing her Halloween costume. She is one of those babies who can roll better than she can sit at this age. She was so fast at rolling over!
This was her mommy's dress...
Costume Storyboard...
Happy Baby...at least she was in this image!
MADISON WAS ONE OF MY NEWBORN PORTRAIT BABIES. IT IS ALWAYS NEAT TO SEE HOW MUCH THEY GROW AND CHANGE WHEN YOU SEE THEM AGAIN.

MY LITTLE SWEETHEART and PORTRAIT RECOMMENDATIONS

MY LITTLE SWEETHEART, NATALIE POOH!

A recent image (October 1, 2007) of Natalie, before she had her first hair cut...

AGES THAT I RECOMMEND FOR FORMAL PORTRAITS FOR INFANTS: I recently had someone to email requesting images of a 5 month old. I could probably dig a little deeper to find some 5 month...but most would be 4 mos. or 6 mos. I recommend babies to be photographed at intervals of milestones rather than age.

• NEWBORN 5 days to 3 wks. (preferably the younger the better)
• HOLDING HEAD UP (for a long period of time) while on tummy... 3-4 mos.; but usually closer to 4 mos.
• SITTING UP (w/o aid and also for long period of time) 6-8 mos., but usually closer to 7 mos.
• STANDING UP (with or w/o aid) this is usually close to first birthday thus make a great one-year/birthday portrait session

THE FIRST IMAGE IN THE GROUP OF POSTS IS A PRETTY RECENT PHOTO OF NATALIE, MY GRANDDAUGHTER, MOST PEOPLE WHO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MY BUSINESS KNOW ABOUT HER. SHE IS MY LITTLE SWEETHEART...HER POPPA'S LITTLE PRINCESS. RECENTLY, I WAS WORKING ON SOME OLDER IMAGES OF NATALIE FOR A SPECIAL PROJECT...THESE OLDER IMAGES ARE ABOUT THE AGE OF THE ABOVE REQUEST. NATALIE IS ALMOST 6 MONTHS OLD IN THESE. THIS WAS MY FAVORITE TIME TO PHOTOGRAPH HER...I WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH MORE FILES TO ADD LATER. IT WAS MY FAVORITE AGE BECAUSE SHE WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO SIT UP, BUT NOT ROLLING FAST OR CRAWLING YET! ONCE THEY GET MOBILE...LIFE CHANGES FOREVER AS YOU KNOW IT!

Natalie: 9 mos.

I just realized she was older in the photo when I was going to list the age. I noticed it because the pink onsie with the cotton logo was purchased in Memphis at annual farm and gin show. It is always the first weekend in March. Thus I knew she was older than 6 months because she was 7 mos old the first time we went after she was born.

I did photograph Natalie at the usual recommended time frame, but I found there wasn't enough time between sessions to get images edited, ordered and back before the next age. This was actually part of her 9 month portrait. I never really finished editing these because I did her birthday portrait with her eating her cake for her invitations for her first birthday party a few weeks later (about 6 weeks before her first birthday). So these were put on the back burner, because of the party plans and next the formal one-year portrait that we did in Hot Springs, Arkansas, because we happen to be there on a gin trip/vacation trip. I will have to post some of those soon too.

Another 9 month image!

ANOTHER ONE: I love my flower babies!
I have played with some of the 9 month portrait images, but I never order wallets, 5x7 and 8x10 for family because I did those of the birthday session so soon afterwards. They are also some of my favorites images and ideal age to photograph her. She learned to sit very early...sitting really good by 5 mos., but she was a little later on the crawling and rolling which gave her a larger window of the ideal age to photograph an infant. Babies do learn things at such different rates...some babies (I think mind did) will learn to roll before sitting and even some learn to crawl before sitting.

This one is actually from one of several sessions that I did at 6 mos. THE ABOVE IS IMAGE IS ONE OF MOMMY'S FAVORITES TOO. I DO THINK I DID DO SOME WALLETS OF THIS ONE FOR MY WALLETS PORTFOLIO THAT I KEPT ON HAND WHEN SHE WAS YOUNGER TO SHOW OFF MY LITTLE SWEETHEART!

I hope you enjoy view these images of Natalie. I am sure you won't enjoy them as much as I do, but who could resist falling for that beautiful and even that cute little bottom!---Jami

SANTA COMES TO TOWN

WELL, HE ACTUALLY CAME TO SCHOOL. WE PHOTOGRAPHED OVER 300 CHILDREN, A FEW OF WHICH WERE MY REGULAR CLIENTS, MOST OF THEM FROM PRE-K THROUGH 2ND GRADE.

These are Phyllis's children. Phyllis was a volunteer assistant last year and we were lucky enough to get her again. I think they are in the 3rd grade now. Tanya didn't write their name down on the log sheet. Sorry, Phyllis, I don't remember.

Emma (Natalie's aunt)
Natalie was scared at first. She was so excited to see Santa so she could tell him that she wants pink bubble gum for Christmas. But when I was getting her out of the car, she confesses that she scared. She was very scared last year. I was very pleased that after much coaxing, she decided Santa was okay!
MY VERY FAVORITE IMAGE!
Jonah, this is how Natalie felt about Santa last year!
Natalie and Emma
Julia
Don't you love these shots?
Later on that day, Jonah decided that Santa is okay as long as his mommy was there too.
Lily needed her Mimi to reassure her that Santa is okay.

CUTE BABY FROM A SESSION THIS FALL...

I thought I would add some images from a recent session from this fall. I had opened the above image (business card) up to copy some of the text. I was using it like a template. And I remembered how much I liked this baby's images from her session. So I have chose a few of my favorites to included here. Enjoy...

BRITTON, 7 months old

I love my flower babies.

Babies girls are always so cute in bonnets!
Don't you just love those eyes!
Soft pastel look...