Baby Miles | Northern VA Newborn Photographer

Baby Miles has arrived! He is such a sweet little peanut, weighing in at just over 6 pounds at 7 days old! It was so great to meet the little man. We did Gloria's maternity session back in January, and it is always fun for me to meet the baby. I had some (kind of) crazy ideas for him, so I have to say a BIG thank you to Gloria and Mike for being such good sports with their precious first born!

Getting ready for his session--bright eyed and ready to go!

Here are some of my favorite 'scrunched up' images.




Ok, so here is where my ideas came in....as a photographer, I routinely look at other photographer's web sites and blogs. One of the trends I noticed was of putting babies in things they would not normally be in--for instance, a bowl. The bowl seemed to be so common, that I started referring to it as the 'baby in the bowl' shot that was starting to pop up everywhere. So, in conversations with other fellow photographers, we started to think about what else could be done with the bowl. I thought it looked like salad, and a friend suggested that should be my take on the 'baby in the bowl' shot--baby salad! I loved this idea, though I knew it was not for everyone. But, thankfully, Gloria, Mike and I all share a similar sense of humor :) So, here is the typical type of bowl shot I was seeing a lot of:

And here is my take on it:


It's been interesting to me what people see in it. A lot of people have loved it, a few thought it was a little odd, and one friend even told me that if it was her baby, she would get it blown up huge and hang it in the house as art. It kind of makes me rethink putting babies in different things--maybe there is potential there.
So, baby as salad--the interpretations are endless--Keep them coming!

Hailey & Tyler

Recently, I did a newborn sitting with Hailey and family. She was feeling a little fussy--modeling is hard work--but we still managed to get some good shots. Tyler is the proud big brother and loves getting his picture taken. It was great to have the opportunity to take photos of the whole family--a new baby is such a big event! Here are some of my favorites.

Nicest Email

I got a great email over the weekend from a past client that I did newborn photos for. It is the feedback like that that keeps me going :) Her baby was adorable, and I really loved the photos. She tried a volume studio for the 6 mo pictures, and well....here is her email:

Hi Amie,
I am not sure if you will remember me. My husband, Matt, and I came in with our daughter Ashlyn to get her 1 month picture taken. I wanted to let you know that we still love the pictures and our family loves them too. So now, Ashlyn is 6 months old and we decided that we would try and save some money this time and just go to one of the mall places to have her pictures taken. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT! We just got home and could not stop talking about how awful it was compared to the wonderful experience we had with you. Ashlyn cried because there were 3 sales people trying to get her to smile, they took some awful shots and to top it all off. They were way more expensive. We were so spoiled by coming to you first. I can't believe that we made the mistake of going anywhere else. For her one year photos, we are definitely coming to you! My husband kept saying, "That is difference between working with a true artist and some guy with a camera. I am crushed that I spent my photo budget on the lousy pictures but am also excited about having you take her one year photo. We will be contacting you in a few months. Thanks again for your beautiful work and never again will I go to a random mall photo place.

I thought this was SO nice! Of course, I am sad that she will not have great 6 mo photos, so I hope she brings her in for a 'mini' session.

I was going to post an image from her session, but it won't work for some reason! grr. Ok, got it to work today....isn't she the cutest?