It
was really hard to choose the images for this post. I truly loved
everything about this mother daughter photo session in the studio from
the end of February.
Right away it was obvious to me the special bond between this mother and daughter, and we set out to capture the love.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the ladies who nurture, love and mentor others, whether you are a Mom, bonus Mom, fur Mom, Grandma, waiting to become a Mom, an Aunt or a Godmother, etc… all the ladies.
When this entire quarantine thing started, I immediately thought of
all the Watch Me Grow sessions we had coming up and the newborns who
would be born, and NOT get pictures. I brought me to tears to have
cancel sessions, but it had to be done to keep everyone safe. Our last
session was March 14th and this little guy was born about a week later.
At the time, I had told his Mom not to worry as we have done newborn
sessions with 6 week olds before. However, when Governor Walz extended the stay at home order, I had to do something to help capture these memories for their family.
I contacted his Mom to see if she would be willing to give it a try.
She was up for the challenge. So she got a hold of her Mom’s camera and
on Saturday we face-timed and I was on the phone with them during the
entire process, making sure to tell them some things to make this work
and create images that they would be proud of. I helped with finding
the light and changing camera settings and with how too pose or get the
blankets set to help with with posing. I will say these poses are
simple, there would be no way to actually tell them how to do the harder
ones. It takes a lot of experience to get those.
I then made a
Dropbox folder for her to upload the photos to for me edit and also do a
little extra Photoshop magic to. Also, the editing of these took a
little while longer, but was so worth it.
I would never suggest
these should replace a professional actually taking your newborn images
when it is again safe to do so, but they are pretty priceless in this
quarantined world.
Photography by Kari specializes in custom portraiture of newborn, family, children sports team banners, dog, and high school seniors in Spring Valley, MN, and surrounding Southeast Minnesota areas.
Areas, including, but not limited to, Rochester, Preston, Chatfield, Stewartville, Grand Meadow, LeRoy, Ostrander, Kasson, Hayfield, Plainview, St. Charles and Pine Island.