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I do have a favourite newborn picture…it was bound to happen. You see things have been a little hectic and busy behind the scenes at Enchanted Hill. We bought another house, we are renovating two houses (I don’t recommend that to anyone, unless you like chaos) and we added a new baby to our family!

Rosalie Vera Bagley was born July 27th, 2014 at 3:54am.

I should be doing laundry and sleeping when she sleeps and catch up on blogging and snapping thousands of pictures of her.  But instead I find myself staring at her, sitting on the couch cuddling her, watching movies with my kids when the sun is shining and we should be outside enjoying some vitamin D….but instead we are revelling in her newness. The kids and I take turns snuggling, cuddling, holding and smelling her newborn scent.

It hasn’t been all roses…my nearly two year old is lost. Not only is she hitting terrible twos but her position as ‘the baby’ has been usurped, the laps that cuddled her daily are now occupied, and the sweet little doll that everyone worships is too fragile for her to play with…so you could say that we are still trying to adjust and find the balance in the new normal.

At two weeks old we were back in the studio for an ordering session (yes Rosalie tagged along!) and I will be back to shooting in a few weeks. A few hours of shooting a week is all I am planning to do, so I am taking on a limited number of session this fall, all outdoor sessions will be held locally in the St George/New River area and I am taking on only 3-4 newborn sessions each month, until I can find this elusive ‘balance’ between life and work:)

Please be prepared for many, many images of Miss Rosalie to come…I won’t apologize only warn you;)

I saw this whimsical newborn moon prop from several other photographers online and knew it would be perfect to have in my studio, and it also went perfectly with my new logo. I contacted Little Blessings in Nova Scotia and talked to them about custom designing the prop to what I had envisioned…the specific shape I was looking for (yes there are quite a few variations to the moon shape and I was of course picky!), the cream colour on the outside and the stained wood on the inside. The coloured stars were a little surprise from them and can be removed and adjusted (which I love!). When it arrived I was so happy with the beautiful craftsmanship and was very excited to use it with my own little newborn:) Thank you for the terrific customer service and customized prop!

I do have a favourite newborn picture…it was bound to happen. You see things have been a little hectic and busy behind the scenes at Enchanted Hill. We bought another house, we are renovating two houses (I don’t recommend that to anyone, unless you like chaos) and we added a new baby to our family!

Rosalie Vera Bagley was born July 27th, 2014 at 3:54am.

I should be doing laundry and sleeping when she sleeps and catch up on blogging and snapping thousands of pictures of her.  But instead I find myself staring at her, sitting on the couch cuddling her, watching movies with my kids when the sun is shining and we should be outside enjoying some vitamin D….but instead we are revelling in her newness. The kids and I take turns snuggling, cuddling, holding and smelling her newborn scent.

It hasn’t been all roses…my nearly two year old is lost. Not only is she hitting terrible twos but her position as ‘the baby’ has been usurped, the laps that cuddled her daily are now occupied, and the sweet little doll that everyone worships is too fragile for her to play with…so you could say that we are still trying to adjust and find the balance in the new normal.

At two weeks old we were back in the studio for an ordering session (yes Rosalie tagged along!) and I will be back to shooting in a few weeks. A few hours of shooting a week is all I am planning to do, so I am taking on a limited number of session this fall, all outdoor sessions will be held locally in the St George/New River area and I am taking on only 3-4 newborn sessions each month, until I can find this elusive ‘balance’ between life and work:)

Please be prepared for many, many images of Miss Rosalie to come…I won’t apologize only warn you;)

I saw this whimsical newborn moon prop from several other photographers online and knew it would be perfect to have in my studio, and it also went perfectly with my new logo. I contacted Little Blessings in Nova Scotia and talked to them about custom designing the prop to what I had envisioned…the specific shape I was looking for (yes there are quite a few variations to the moon shape and I was of course picky!), the cream colour on the outside and the stained wood on the inside. The coloured stars were a little surprise from them and can be removed and adjusted (which I love!). When it arrived I was so happy with the beautiful craftsmanship and was very excited to use it with my own little newborn:) Thank you for the terrific customer service and customized prop!

Someone who knows just how fast children grow and change is Ronda Leavitt, owner of Kayla’s Kastings.  Ronda owns a small business that specializes in casting hand prints, foot prints, hand statues, belly casting, custom shadow boxes and so much more!

Her business is named in honour of her third child, Kayla. Kayla came this spring to see me in the studio for a session and she was so much fun to work with (and her Mom and I had a nice little gab too!).

You can visit Ronda’s website by clicking here to see her beautiful custom work.

I love that we were able to capture these portraits, to book your child’s session click here!

Someone who knows just how fast children grow and change is Ronda Leavitt, owner of Kayla’s Kastings.  Ronda owns a small business that specializes in casting hand prints, foot prints, hand statues, belly casting, custom shadow boxes and so much more!

Her business is named in honour of her third child, Kayla. Kayla came this spring to see me in the studio for a session and she was so much fun to work with (and her Mom and I had a nice little gab too!).

You can visit Ronda’s website by clicking here to see her beautiful custom work.

I love that we were able to capture these portraits, to book your child’s session click here!

During a session you will hear me click that shutter a few hundred times (depending on the session type!), I am moving all around trying to get as many angles, props, poses as I can and yet my clients only receive 20-25 images? Why do you not receive every single image I snapped?

1. Amount

Some sessions I overshoot, I get a little snap happy and can (and have!) shot 400+ pictures…if your goal is to have one or two nice canvases made for your living room…do you know how long it will take you to go through hundreds of pictures? Hours…and you will get overwhelmed. I promise you, I am the professional and sometimes I get a little overwhelmed by incredible sessions! It has taken me a few years but I can now cull through a large amount of images to give the most variety, best expression, in record time because my eyes are trained to know what I should be looking for.

2. Editing Time

I edit every single image you see and that takes time (depending on the session and image, sometimes there is quite a great deal to edit and other times only a few tweaks). Half of my skills is the editing…I know how to make buildings disappear from backgrounds, scratches and bruises are done, skin is creamy and pretty, the colours are rich and true…a slightly prettier version of reality. You hire me because you see the lovely finished images, my skill is seeing the final product during the session, turning your loved ones into art. I cannot afford to spend days editing every single image off the memory card and you don’t want to view your images and have to imagine what they COULD look like after I edit them. Every image you see will be completed and finished to a high standard. Showing you an unedited image is equivalent to showing you an image that would be considered naked in my world.

3. Blinks

Do you know the average person blinks 15-20 a minute? Do you want a picture of your eyes closed? Me either:) I toss those ones because I haven’t had any requests for a family picture with everyone’s eyes closed yet.

4. Children Are Curious and Cameras are Boring

True story…the younger the more distracted. They look all around, they explore, they make funny faces, they babble and chat to us and sometimes I catch them looking at me…but I need to be ready. So I keep snapping in hopes of catching some eye contact and maybe if I am lucky a real smile.

5.  Sometimes the Picture Doesn’t Turn Out

Some moments happen so fast and us photographers don’t catch it in time, the light changes suddenly and the camera was set for another type of light, someone was moving too fast for the camera, sometimes technology doesn’t always work and the focus (where the picture is true sharpest) doesn’t hot the subject (you want your subject in focus…not the trees in the background).

For an example here are some images from a super quick session with my (then) 20 months old daughter, Cecilia. She is a toddler, has a short attention span and really doesn’t care if Mommy has her camera…these are not edited.

Glaring at the camera.

Something was much more interesting than me calling her name.

And now the two images that did make the final cut and were presented to my family and friends for her 20 month pictures.

In 10 minutes I had snapped about 200 images of my very busy and curious toddler…my goal was 1-2 images and that is what I got! Those two images were printed so they can be kept and displayed, mission accomplished!

During a session you will hear me click that shutter a few hundred times (depending on the session type!), I am moving all around trying to get as many angles, props, poses as I can and yet my clients only receive 20-25 images? Why do you not receive every single image I snapped?

1. Amount

Some sessions I overshoot, I get a little snap happy and can (and have!) shot 400+ pictures…if your goal is to have one or two nice canvases made for your living room…do you know how long it will take you to go through hundreds of pictures? Hours…and you will get overwhelmed. I promise you, I am the professional and sometimes I get a little overwhelmed by incredible sessions! It has taken me a few years but I can now cull through a large amount of images to give the most variety, best expression, in record time because my eyes are trained to know what I should be looking for.

2. Editing Time

I edit every single image you see and that takes time (depending on the session and image, sometimes there is quite a great deal to edit and other times only a few tweaks). Half of my skills is the editing…I know how to make buildings disappear from backgrounds, scratches and bruises are done, skin is creamy and pretty, the colours are rich and true…a slightly prettier version of reality. You hire me because you see the lovely finished images, my skill is seeing the final product during the session, turning your loved ones into art. I cannot afford to spend days editing every single image off the memory card and you don’t want to view your images and have to imagine what they COULD look like after I edit them. Every image you see will be completed and finished to a high standard. Showing you an unedited image is equivalent to showing you an image that would be considered naked in my world.

3. Blinks

Do you know the average person blinks 15-20 a minute? Do you want a picture of your eyes closed? Me either:) I toss those ones because I haven’t had any requests for a family picture with everyone’s eyes closed yet.

4. Children Are Curious and Cameras are Boring

True story…the younger the more distracted. They look all around, they explore, they make funny faces, they babble and chat to us and sometimes I catch them looking at me…but I need to be ready. So I keep snapping in hopes of catching some eye contact and maybe if I am lucky a real smile.

5.  Sometimes the Picture Doesn’t Turn Out

Some moments happen so fast and us photographers don’t catch it in time, the light changes suddenly and the camera was set for another type of light, someone was moving too fast for the camera, sometimes technology doesn’t always work and the focus (where the picture is true sharpest) doesn’t hot the subject (you want your subject in focus…not the trees in the background).

For an example here are some images from a super quick session with my (then) 20 months old daughter, Cecilia. She is a toddler, has a short attention span and really doesn’t care if Mommy has her camera…these are not edited.

Glaring at the camera.

Something was much more interesting than me calling her name.

And now the two images that did make the final cut and were presented to my family and friends for her 20 month pictures.

In 10 minutes I had snapped about 200 images of my very busy and curious toddler…my goal was 1-2 images and that is what I got! Those two images were printed so they can be kept and displayed, mission accomplished!

Is there anything as sweet as a curled up naked newborn? Well yes! A two and half month old baby is just as sweet and adorable! Although, they are not quite a newborn, they are still so tiny, little and delicious!

They don’t curl up and sleep like newborns because the bones have started to harden and they have grown up enough to have lost some of their ‘womb instincts’  and props are not safe with their super strong abilities to roll over without notice but they can give us beautiful eye contact that newborns cannot maintain. They can sneak in a few genuine smiles, lay on their bellies and prop themselves up. They can show us their little personalities, chubby kissable cheeks and overall sweetness.

This sweet little girl showed how she could rock her first photo session and charmed myself and her parents.

To book your little one’s next session contact me here!

Is there anything as sweet as a curled up naked newborn? Well yes! A two and half month old baby is just as sweet and adorable! Although, they are not quite a newborn, they are still so tiny, little and delicious!

They don’t curl up and sleep like newborns because the bones have started to harden and they have grown up enough to have lost some of their ‘womb instincts’  and props are not safe with their super strong abilities to roll over without notice but they can give us beautiful eye contact that newborns cannot maintain. They can sneak in a few genuine smiles, lay on their bellies and prop themselves up. They can show us their little personalities, chubby kissable cheeks and overall sweetness.

This sweet little girl showed how she could rock her first photo session and charmed myself and her parents.

To book your little one’s next session contact me here!

No words can describe the horror that the city of Moncton is facing at this moment.

Many of my clients work in law enforcement and my thoughts and prayers are with them and their families, for selflessly putting themselves in harm’s way, each day for our safety.

No words can describe the horror that the city of Moncton is facing at this moment.

Many of my clients work in law enforcement and my thoughts and prayers are with them and their families, for selflessly putting themselves in harm’s way, each day for our safety.

Dear little Miss Mya,

You were so easy to work with, you completely rocked your newborn session. So relaxed, so cuddly, no pose was too hard and you made every picture incredible. And plus you had the good genes from your parents to be incredibly beautiful too.

You made my job soooooo easy and you are one of those babies that makes me love what I do even more.

So tiny and perfect, I am so glad your parents have captured this brief moment at the beginning of your life.

Dear little Miss Mya,

You were so easy to work with, you completely rocked your newborn session. So relaxed, so cuddly, no pose was too hard and you made every picture incredible. And plus you had the good genes from your parents to be incredibly beautiful too.

You made my job soooooo easy and you are one of those babies that makes me love what I do even more.

So tiny and perfect, I am so glad your parents have captured this brief moment at the beginning of your life.