HIP Studio Photography

Despite photographing countless newborn babies over the past 5 years, I have not had a newborn in my house for quite some time! In December, we welcomed the most perfect little angel, William James. My husband and I were a little rusty, but we quickly found ourselves back in the newborn routine. Changing diapers, no sleep, feeding at all hours… little clothes, toys, and baby stuff EVERYWHERE… there were so many things that I remembered, planned for, and expected…. but by far the biggest unexpected was how quickly the TIME has passed me by (he’ll turn 5 months Sunday) and how little time I have been able to find for my “late night” work such as blog posting and catching up on email– even deleting all my spam has become a chore. I’ve been back shooting for a month now and am gradually getting back in the groove. Please bear with me and feel free to call or email again if you don’t get an immediate response!

Since I neglected to post these months ago… I’m going to begin my promise to catch up on my blog posting with these beautiful photos that my friend and colleague, Andrea Hallett, took of my family and then of William. I am so grateful for these photos. Its a gift that I can’t even put a value on…and I’m still trying to figure out how I will ever return the favor. I wanted maternity photos, but I really wanted to capture the entire family… keep in mind that my window for maternity images fell right during the busiest time of year for portrait photography… October! So we tentatively planned to do these in early October, I had ideas and visions in my head, but time and crappy weather was not on our side, and by the time we could do the photos, it was November. I was ready to pop, the weather was cold, BUT Andrea convinced me that I should do it… and I’m so thankful that I listened! Then we had high expectations for the newborn session…I shopped for special props, drove to Andrea’s house so that it would be less chaotic (imagine my house with 3 kids and 2 dogs and remember this was during the holidays) but little Will had something else in mind… NO SLEEP and LOTS OF EATING! Now how could he do that to his photographer momma at 9 days old??? Luckily, my hormones were at bay and I didn’t lose it– I guess after 3 uncooperative children, I’ve learned to let it go! I was so grateful and thankful that Andrea was able to capture the few sleeping ones. We were a little desperate– so despite my gross appearance (I did have a shower, but very little else) I jumped in the photos with him. So that’s it, the beginning of my inability to tear myself away from a couple hours of sleep or baby long enough to post to this blog… if you’ve made it this far, thanks for indulging… here are Andrea’s photos: