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our foundation part 4 – babies

Continuing our series on the foundations of our photography business with another focus on baby portraits and MAN ALIVE are they fun. They can have their moments, don’t get me wrong, but the results are always worth it and we love partnering with parents to enjoy the time and get the best shots of their newest family memories.
More of our favorites are below, including birthday cake smashes, playing dress up, orchard portraits and more. Enjoy!
Fun Portraits with Pets and Babies

Six Month Photos of Finley
First Birthday Cake Smashes

Adding a Sibling


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, engagements and weddingsbrides, and 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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for the love of newborn babies

From the downiest bit of hair fluff that smells indescribably baby and yet something only J.R.R. Tolkien could describe – something elves or fairies make – to their feet that manage to wrap like rising pretzel dough – newborn babies are the closest thing to heaven. They are intoxicating, which is why you see mothers, aunts, grandmothers and countless others holding a newborn, then rolling their eyes into the back of their heads while sniffing and cuddling. You see a newborn being held, the head is supported, but mostly what they are doing is smelling that perfect newborn head scent of unadulterated yum.
Terpstra Newborn Baby Family Portrait PhotographyThe feet really are too much. There are wrinkles and ridiculously small nails and they twist and turn, based on how they were in utero, into impossible shapes that can fit in your mouth. Find a baby’s foot and maybe a little clarified butter (and a decoy) and you’ve got snack time.
Holden Gray Newborn Photography by Pixels On Paper Portrait Photography photo

What is he thinking about? Warmth? Peeing?
What I always think about is scale. It’s important to capture the beginning and it’s hard to miss the study in contract between his little head and his father’s hand supporting it… the size of his fist next to his father’s fingers. They’ll never be able to create that again and I love capturing it during that one moment.Mathis Newborn Photography, Family portrait photography by Wilkesboro NC Photographers Pixels On Paper photo

While we’re settling in with our own newborn masterpiece (forgive me, but he’s pretty perfect) and preparing for the holidays, I’m holding my newborn close and thinking of the newborns I’ve photographed, the exhausted parents who are in love with them, and how I know the time will fly. I’m wishing rest and peace for us all.

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, engagements and weddingsbrides, and 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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Jaxon turns one | first birthday portrait photography

Jaxon Andrews, son of Kristen and Matthew, turned one on July 21, 2017 and we photographed his one year portraits as soon as he was standing on his own and walking…. which was 4 days later – ha!! We met at a friend’s family farm in Purlear, NC on July 25th and it was wonderful. This kid is apparently taking his charm pills regularly, because his smile is irresistible and his blue eyes haven’t changed much since I photographed his newborn session a year ago.

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Jaxon is all boy and loves farm life much like his big brother Luke. If he isn’t admiring the cows and playing in a wagon, he is toddling around his dad’s diesel mechanic garage or playing with tractors. I picture him behind the wheel of some amazing car years from now having both the smile to get the girls and the ability to fix the car if something happens to the engine: i.e. A Keeper!

one year child photographers outdoor family portraits pixels on paper boone blowing rock wilkesboro nc photographers photoone year child photographers outdoor family portraits pixels on paper boone blowing rock wilkesboro nc photographers photoone year child photographers outdoor family portraits pixels on paper boone blowing rock wilkesboro nc photographers photoone year child photographers outdoor family portraits pixels on paper boone blowing rock wilkesboro nc photographers photoone year child photographers outdoor family portraits pixels on paper boone blowing rock wilkesboro nc photographers photoone year child photographers outdoor family portraits pixels on paper boone blowing rock wilkesboro nc photographers photoone year child photographers outdoor family portraits pixels on paper boone blowing rock wilkesboro nc photographers photoone year child photographers outdoor family portraits pixels on paper boone blowing rock wilkesboro nc photographers photoKristen & Matthew took advantage of our one year baby plan package when Jaxon was born. Newborn, six month, and one year photos. They chose not to include a cake smash because as it turns out, Jaxon isn’t a fan of cake yet. What they will be getting is a custom designed photo book that shows off Jaxon’s first year on Planet Earth. For our baby plan clients, we also like to bring the whole family together at the one year mark for a family portrait. Often we’ve photographed the siblings and all the growth and changes in the family are fun to see and should be chronicled, right? We love the continuance and adore the families.

Pixels On Paper offers full year baby photography packages. Want to learn more about our maternity and newborn photography packages or portrait photography in Wilkesboro NC , Boone, Blowing Rock and the NC mountains? Call 336-990-0080, visit our website www.pixelsonpaper.net or send us and email at mail@pixelsonpaper.biz for more information.

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sawyer’s first birthday portraits and cake smash photos at Pixels On Paper portrait studio

If you feel like the clock is doing that Salvador Dali thing of melting slooooooowly, … first, I admire your knowledge of surrealism. Secondly, though, it’s not slowly melting. It’s moving faster than any of us can comprehend. I get it: 7 days a week, 60 seconds in a minute, 24 hours a day and that doesn’t change, but I swear this child’s older sibling was just born. And now HERE HE IS celebrating his own first birthday. This is sweet Sawyer and he’s made his first trip around the sun.Sawyer Dean Pierce One Year portrait photography and Cake Smash photos by Pixels On Paper Portrait Photography Wilkesboro, Boone, Blowing Rock, family photographers photoSawyer Dean Pierce One Year portrait photography and Cake Smash photos by Pixels On Paper Portrait Photography Wilkesboro, Boone, Blowing Rock, family photographers photoSawyer: “These are my hands” (above). “The tops of them you can see on the left and on the right, my palms! Pretty cool, huh?”Sawyer Dean Pierce One Year portrait photography and Cake Smash photos by Pixels On Paper Portrait Photography Wilkesboro, Boone, Blowing Rock, family photographers photoSawyer Dean Pierce One Year portrait photography and Cake Smash photos by Pixels On Paper Portrait Photography Wilkesboro, Boone, Blowing Rock, family photographers photo

Sawyer Dean Pierce turned one on June 9, 2017 and we photographed his one year portrait and cake smash photo session on that very day. We had fun designing his nautical beach themed backdrop in the Pixels On Paper photography portrait studio, but he seemed less than thrilled with diving into a cake. Some kids do and some kids don’t. This one couldn’t care less about the sweets (at least on this day). What he is into is playing outside, hanging with his big brother Holden, dancing, swinging on swings and growing those curls. We love photographing the Pierce family and have been their photographers for more than a few milestones. Sawyer’s growth needs to slow down, but it’s not going to happen, I’m afraid. He is definitely giving his big brother Holden a run for his money in size and stature.

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Contact us if you want to set up portrait sessions for your newborn, 6 month, one month or family portraits. We love the babies!

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Baby, baby, baby photos | Full Year of Portraits

Someone once said that “the days are long, but the years are short” and it’s true. It’s usually repeated by those of us over 40 who still feel 24, but I won’t go there. This blog is about babies. Big, round, gushy, adorable, cooing, cuddly, pooping, burbling bundles of life and hope. Some parents want to document way more than babies first newborn portrait and we love that we offer a way to do this.
But first… here’s Holden. Soak up that deliciousness. I mean seriously – WHAT ON EARTH is he dreaming about to be making a face that awesome?

Holden Gray Newborn Photography by Pixels On Paper Portrait Photography photo

Little Holden is no longer the teeny-weenie newborn or the 6 month old above, and we know because we photographed him several times as part of the Brand New Baby Collection, a package we offer to families who want to capture the first year of their child’s life and then some. We feel like we not only get to know the family even better, but are able to see and record even minuscule changes in each baby’s growth.
Below are a couple of goodies from Holden’s 1st birthday portraits and cake smash photo session.

The Brand New Baby Collection is something we love to do for parents, because it allows us to start with maternity (if Mama wants those shots) and takes us through the first year of the child’s life: newborn portraits (within the first 10 days of your babies life), 6 months, 1 year/birthday photos and with discounts on cards and a variety of package options including digital files, prints, image selections, etc.

Pixels On Paper, photo studio, 6 month portrait photo

Little Miss Harper Huffman… “I’m ready for my close up Mr. DeMille!”

Pixels On Paper, photo studio, 6 month portrait photo

Harper Huffman, 6 months

Harper, Carson and Ivy are 3 more kiddies whose parents chose from this package and watching them transform was so much fun.

Outdoor one year old child portrait photos and cake smash in Yadkin Valley NC by Wilkesboro NC family photographers Pixels On Paper Photography. ©2015 Pixels On Paper Photography http://www.pixelsonpaper.net Do not copy, print, crop or remove watermark.

Carson Mathis, One Year and rocking the bow tie.

Carson Mathis one year portrait photography photo

Carson’s Cake Smash

Harper Huffman’s baby announcement

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Harper Huffman and her proud parents

Harper Huffman, 6 months

Ivy Myers Newborn Photography by Pixels On Paper Portrait Photography photo

Ivy Myers, Newborn

Ivy Myers 6 months child and family portrait photography by Pixels On Paper Portrait Photography

Ivy at 6 months

Ivy Myers, 1 year

Contact us with questions about Brand New Baby packages or consider giving this package as a gift to expecting mothers and fathers. We photograph at our studio in Wilkesboro, where we have an outdoor portrait garden and lots of props and set ups or at a location that’s meaningful to you.

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, engagements and weddingsbrides, and 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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