Posts in Category: Babies
Angelina Turns One – Cake Smash Photos
This juicy fruit of a baby is Angelina and I’m astonished that she’s now a year old! I remember shooting maternity images of her expectant and excited parents and it feels like moments ago. Parents Jessica and Bobby Bennett are two of the most fun people I’ve photographed in the last year plus.
Angelina has been cute since day one and I would know. She made it to our studio not long after she was born (and she arrived three weeks early!) and was a deliciously juicy little newborn bundle then. For her six month portraits, we all met up at our favorite orchard and captured her underneath the pink blossoms.
For her first birthday, we were back in the studio with a luau theme, lots of bright colors, pineapples, props, costume changes, and of course, a cake to destroy – I mean nibble. Angelina was so easy to work with and loved her outfits and the icing she sampled. I love these full circle one year moments! Happy Birthday, Sweet Angelina!!
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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Baby’s First Year Photography Packages
We recently reminded you fine people out there about our Referral Program, and Pixels clients should take advantage of it! But now is also a great time to remind those of you who are thinking about starting a family, newly engaged or just married. We have a package created just for you that nearly all of our maternity or new parents avail themselves of: the One Year Baby Package. I chose a beloved family for whom we captured maternity, newborn, 6 month and finally the first birthday of their adorable daughter.
Our package covers newborn portraits, a 6-month portrait session and then a One Year Birthday session. Maternity portraits can be added if you desire. Even if Pixels did not photograph your engagement shots, your wedding or any other portraits, you can still take advantage of this package. Parents tell us over and over again how grateful they are that they made this a priority. These images make not only great memories and heirlooms, but baby and family portraits are perfect gifts for grandparents or relatives. Often clients create canvases for their children’s bedrooms or for the family wall of images. Ryan and I will even create and install these.
I’m sharing two blogs with more details about why I’m passionate about covering a baby’s first year, and even more details about what each session captures. Give me a call and let’s start planning.
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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Newborn Baby Tibbett Photos
Walker Tibbett deserves The Oscar for his performance as Exceptionally Cute and Perfect Newborn this year. That – or he really is a perfect child when having his photo taken. This little creature smiled when he was asleep and smiled when he was awake. He loved being snuggled and wrapped and could not be easier to fold, handle and photograph.
His parents, Brooke and Joey, have been clients of ours before and bought the one year baby package after we captured their engagement, wedding and mom Brooke’s maternity session. Brooke loves earth tones, and prefers them to “baby” images or cartoons for Walker’s room. Her palette is specific and really pretty and photographing Walker swaddled in blues and greys, creams and camels was as easy as it’s ever been. I loved every.single.second!!
Mom and Dad wanted to let Walker be the star of the show. If you know me at all, though, you know that I encourage parents to be a part of at least one of the shoots we do. Brooke and Joey are such a great couple and new parents deserve some attention too. We’ll see how I do getting them to pose in Walker’s 6 month portraits…
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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Aryan One Year Cake Smash and Milk Bath Portraits
May 5th was a fun day! For Aryan’s first birthday, her guardians and co-moms, Stacy and Becky brought this little cutie pie to our studio and portrait garden to celebrate with a milk bath and a cake smash. Aryan’s family members are long time clients and friends of ours, and their family has loads of boys, so this was a chance to have a little girl time with their youngest member.
Aryan’s birthday theme was all about the color yellow and bumblebees, and Stacy sent over a bunch of items that were right on brand! She asked that I work my magic in our studio and I had a blast setting up the studio first. We’re all about boy stuff around here, so all of the cute elements combined in the space were an absolute treat and Aryan completed the picture. I just loved watching her little ruffled fanny crawling around! We let her nibble on frosting and cake, and Stacy even brought Honeycombs cereal to sprinkle around so that Aryan could graze as she played.
Then, we headed out into the portrait gardens, for her post-cake milk bath. The yellow theme carried from bumblebees to lemons and this little girl splashed around and cracked herself up. The whole scene was delicious, just like Aryan. I’m always so honored to have families trust us with their babies. Newborns, six-month olds, and first birthday parties are favorites for us. They mark time and allow us to tell the stories of individuals and families. I treasure that.
I am just so honored to be documenting this amazing family and cannot wait to see Aryan grow into a toddler next. To see more of our time with this sweet family, check out Aryan’s newborn and family portraits.
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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Bennett family and six month old Angelina
This day felt like a family reunion and I’m so grateful for it. We’ve all had a year of struggles and regrouping with familiar faces and old stories felt so good. Ryan has a history with this wonderful family. He and baby Angelina’s grandma Ann Russo became pals while working together a couple of decades ago. Long after they became friends, Anne’s daughter Jessica was getting married and they thought of Pixels to photograph their wedding. We’ve been friends since. On this day, we took Angelina’s six month portraits with parents Jessica and Bobby and grandparents Ann and Rich Russo at the peach orchards which were gorgeously in bloom.
Angelina was born while we were all in the teeth of the pandemic and mom Jessica worried that she wouldn’t know how to socialize, but this angel has a TON of personality. She’s not shy at all. It was so fun seeing parents and grandparents mixing it up with her. It was such a beautiful day in a warm setting with people we love.
Obviously, with all of this history, this wasn’t the first time we’d photographed these guys. Check out Jessica’s maternity portraits and Angelina’s newborn portraits.
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.