My Favourite Newborn Picture

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!