Julia’s Blogfest

It’s shameful how long it’s been since I blogged but I have a great excuse.  I have been getting my house ready for the market since January for one but we not only bought a house in late February, but we listed ours and sold it in 10 days following that!  WHOOOSH!  That’s how fast it’s all be going.  I am scaling back work for the next couple of months but will be fulfilling bookings that were made prior to this major life change.  Thankfully, we are moving locally to Fairfax Station, VA.  So if you are one of my spring portrait or wedding clients, please bear with me as my schedule and workflow will be much slower.

Anyway, a couple weeks ago I had a wonderful newborn session with a past client.  Miss “A” made her modeling debut here in-studio –she was only 6 days old.  And she slept 2 1/2 hours of her 3 hour session.  That made for some easy and great shots.

This was a great session.  The Roebuck family was given this newborn session as a baby shower gift from mom’s childhood friend.  How generous is that?  Little Master Roebuck was just over 2 weeks old in this session.  He was born during our massive December 22″ snowstorm!  Talk about a monumental entrance!

It always brings joy to me to work with a new mom and dad.  This family was no exception.  As my youngest turns 6 this week, I pine for the newborn baby phase and am in disbelief that it’s been 6 years for me.  I meet this birthday milestone of Harry with mixed emotions b/c 6 is NOT 3, not 4, not 5.  He is officially out of the toddler and preschool age as he is 1/2 way thru kindergarten already.

Maggie’s parents live in Alexandria and found me thru a referral system of Old Town Moms.  Love that network!  Mom and dad moved here from San Diego last summer so they are still new to the area and meeting new people.  Dad is in the Marines and is an F-18 pilot and they will be here a few years.  Mom is taking a break from working as a Salary Compensation Consultant.  Their little Maggie was SO good for the 2 1/2 hours they were here.  Literally no cries that I can recall!  Thanks you guys!

And this shot was their idea!  They wanted a photo of Maggie in dad’s helmet!  I had no idea how this would work and actually would do a few things differently now but I still love this.

Scrumptious.  That’s all I can say to describe this big, little boy.  Fletcher’s mom is one of my good friends who makes many appearances on this blog.  I love when the pressure is off to take photos so we just took our time and let Master Fletcher sleep and sleep which is what he did.  Here is is 7 days old.  Congrats on #3 Heather!

First of all, I have updated the look and feel of my blog a bit and I hope you like it!  So do let me know.  I am tweaking it a lot so if you see something off, please alert the forces as this will be a work in progress as I have time.

Secondly, Happy New Year to all my loyal blog subscribers and blogline readers!  I adore all of you and am grateful to know I am not blogging in vain!   I had a terrific 2008 personally and professionally.  Professionally, my work skyrocketed, somehow, and I’m blessed and overjoyed with the direction it has taken.  I have also met so so so many wonderful photographer-friends along the way and love that aspect of my work as well (you know who you are!).  I feel that between clients and colleagues, my heart and soul are filled and I’m doing the right thing!   To that point, I will be co-hosting a photographer get-together/learning session/social afternoon in a few weeks (my good buddy Armin deFiesta is the organizer) and from the looks of the invite, there will be over 25 attending — only a handful of which I know personally.  So here’s to more networking and friends – and if you have not been added to his growing DC networking list, let me know and I’ll be sure he adds you to all communication.

Now on to business!  Little Miss Ainsley was born 3 weeks early and here’s her photographic debut!  Her mom purchased my Bebe package and came in for her maternity session in the nick of time!  Look at how gorgeous mom is too!!  We did the session around the 2nd week in December.  Then,  just days before Christmas mom emails to inform me of Ainsley’s early arrival — the week after our maternity session.  With the holiday madness, I had to figure out a way to get them in asap and we were able to do the shoot earlier this week.  And we did manage to get her little buns in at the 2 week mark.  Whew!  She cooperated FULLY for this session as you will see.  And because I am still behind on December sessions for my blogfestworld, I am finally posting mom’s maternity pix as well as the newborn session photos here.