BOSTON CHILDREN'S PHOTOGRAPHER, BOSTON FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHER, BOSTON NEWBORN PHOTOGRAPHER

This is a fabulous age if you miss the 2 week “newborn” window and still want to capture your little when they are little. Any time between 12 – 16 weeks in the infant stage is wonderful, you get engaged eye contact, tummy time, smiles, baby acne is gone and they are really oh-so-lovin’ their mammas.

This fabulous and delicious little number was an at-home mini session — at a home with wonderful light, at 9:30-10:30AM time frame (when babies are happiest!) and a very accommodating little man. He quite possibly might be one of the cutest babies I have photographed in a LONG time. It was my pleasure!

[P.S. A great follow up time to this is when your baby can happily sit on their own!]

Somehow my crazy season crept up and began in July. Last year it was August, maybe September. But it starts out with me thinking that I am not that busy, and that I have life and work under control. And then I take vacation (for me it was vacation, staycation with family, staycation with friends) and I woke up in a cold sweat with orders to deliver and galleries to proof and everything else that keeps me up until all hours both worrying and working.

So with a few power hours in front of me, and nothing planned personally for quite a while, I am charging forward and catching up. Hopefully I can say that by the end of this week, everyone who has ordered from me will either have their goods, or will their goods will be ordered… and hopefully I will also be able to say that I only have my current week galleries outstanding. Dare to dream, dare to dream.

It’s also the time of year when I am HORRIBLE about blogging. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. And so look for more single images on Facebook... and sadly, look for blog posts with no words (for some, that might be a welcome relief to not have to read all my verbal diarrhea — wait, did I just put that word on my blog?).

So here’s a few from a session that goes out tomorrow, late, but still under three weeks, so in my overall timeline, not late, but for 2011 work, it’s late. My sincerest apologies. I loved this session, I loved this family, I loved this neighborhood, I loved this little boy, I loved the people that referred them to me… I loved the city that night and then going home refreshed and happy to see my own family. I love it when sessions do that for me. Get it, I loved it.

Enough said. And to just change it up, yo, and all BW post. Because every once in a while I wake up and say “I should just do this all in BW because I love it that much more.” No worries, the gallery and slideshow have both. This is just me being crazy at midnight.

We saw spring here on the North Shore for oh, seven hours (?) on Saturday. Happily, during that time, I also saw some favorite return clients and we were able to take advantage of our small window of glorious weather. I photographed this little doll on New Years Eve, and was so happy that her parents returned for a “smiling” (and sort of sitting!) session this weekend. We were able to do a little combo shoot, my first of the year outside on River Road, and then a little studio action for tummy time and and a bit of rolling around. She was really gem of a baby and just smiled and gurgled and squawked while I got to catch up with her excellent parents and talk all things work, daycare, and photography! I am so excited to see them back for their next session in the fall… perfect timing for holiday cards!

If I photographed your baby as a newborn, you should definitely call me to talk about milestone mini sessions. They are a great value and a great way to document your baby’s first year!

Thanks friends for coming by and allowing me to hang with your little girl!

Do you all notice a little trend here on my blog?  It’s called happy sitting babies, between 7-8 months old, that live in the city.  There is a posse of them, they are all super cute, well dressed and they all have the most excellent moms.  And the very odd thing is that even though they are almost all in the same development class at ISIS Parenting, and their moms are all mostly in the same workout classes, they all came to me from completely and totally different referrals… it is just by random chance that I can connect them all.  As luck would have it, I REALLY like their families, and I have really loved all their sessions!

So Saturday I was excited to meet this family because they came from my favorite red-headed superstar Lilly Pulitzer model.  You know who I am talking about if you peek in my studio and see the giant canvas of her sitting with her lovely girls.  And this family did not disappoint. You guys know the drill, I walk in… we chat… it’s Six Degrees of Kristina Young… I look around and determine maybe I should set up camp and move into their living room… they are all super cute… and the rest of the session is a wandering-around-town-conversation about all things Boston, work, marriage and parenting.  As if I have known them forever. So I really enjoyed myself if you can’t tell.  I hope they did as well!

So Laura, Jake & Johnny…. I hope you love what I captured.  Your son is gorgeous and contrary to what we worried about, I captured a ton of smiles!  Thank you so much for having me!

I think I am liking my Fridays in the city.  I come home so happy and invigorated (and maybe a little tired), and I remember why I love the city, shooting natural light, babies and amazing families.  Once again when I arrived at my session, I was greeting by a stunning young new mom and a wonderful husband… and another little love that can sit and not move!  Oh, to freeze that age, I would if I could.  I love every age (two is debatable), I love to see how personalities emerge, I love first words, then sentences, and finally real conversations.  But I really love 6-10 months.

It was so nice to have great indoor light, but then be able to stroll chatting through the city and wind up in the Public Gardens.  All the flowers are blooming and everything just looks happy.  Our uber amazing model was a bit tired out from part one at home, and so she snoozed a little on the way… and then in the park… and then when we moved around the park… but then she woke up and turned on the charm and was a perfect little subject!

I loved yesterday.  I truly have amazing client.  I don’t know who to thank for it (actually, I do, because this was a referral), but again, I came home saying “I love my job.”