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Hellllooo readers!

I’m finally back to my blog! I know I’ve been away on a bit of a hiatus… It’s mainly because I’ve been shooting straight since I got back from photographing Melissa and Sean’s gorgeous wedding in St. Thomas in The Virgin Islands just under 2 weeks back. It was a gorgeous spot in the world to have a ceremony and everything was as magical as we could have ever imagined. I had such an amazing time with everyone but I was also itching to get back into the studio with my babies again I truly DO love every moment I spend with these little darlings and miss it when we’re gone! Baby Kaleya was the last newborn I photographed before we left snowy Toronto to enjoy the sunshine of the Caribbean…

Kaleya was so adorable and such a sweetie while I photographed her! She was a bit past that sleepy newborn stage so she was wide eyed and bushy tailed for our shoot. It was nice to see her sparkly eyes and to see her personality come through too!

I love this sequence above! What a cute little munchkin! It looks like Kaleya is having a great time boogie-ing away. Too cute for words I also loved each shot individually… Check them out below. Isn’t she one of the cutest newborns you’ve ever seen.

This photo above has to be the cutest shot from the newborn session. I love the energy and her expression!

Baby Kaleya’s parents really loved soft neutrals and the creamier colour pallets for the session. I think there is something so dreamy about using soft colours and really focusing on the baby. I also like to use vibrant colours to really make my images pop and play with my creativity too.

Look at those gorgeous little twinkly eyes! There is just something simply beautiful about a classic newborn portrait that I love. I always like to create something like this for my clients, just a beautiful, honest portrait of their little one that they can look back on and cherish.

Thanks so much for being such a great model Kaleya!! A big thanks to mom and dad too, I had such a great time with you guys

Thanks for checking up on what we’ve been up to everyone… I’ll be caught up on my posts soon. There are some great shoots out there that I’m waiting to post but we’ve been working on a few very special projects (they’ll be announced in the next couple of days on the blog). I can’t wait to share my other sessions with you and some great news soon so stay tuned!

When I first mustered up enough courage to enter the awesome world of newborn and baby photography I knew I really wanted to do it right from the very start! I felt that not only does our photography have to be amazing for our clients to look back on, but our products had to be nothing less than perfection. It was last year at WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) in Las Vegas, that our hearts skipped a beat and we fell head over heels in love with the best baby album makers on the planet, Finao!!

While looking for an album supplier there were a few must have things on our check list… 1) Our albums had to be unlike anything else that was on the market 2) The quality had to be second to none 3) The print quality had to be stunningly gorgeous 4) They had to be durable. Will it last the test of time? Last but not least 5) Are they ‘GREEN’ and socially responsible like us? Do they care about the Earth??

As you can tell Finao scored a perfect 5/5 which really made us a some happy photographers! This was such a match made in heaven for us and we couldn’t be more stoked to deliver such a high quality product to our clients!!

Another thing we love are the colours, textures, patterns, baby album sizes and designs we can select from to really add that personal touch for our clients. This pressed leather (also available in faux leathers) pattern below is so stunning and feels soooo luxurious in your hands… I love it!! It’s like butter baby

Our gorgeous professionally retouched prints are bound to our flushmount albums flawlessly, so the image is never compromised or interrupted. Because our albums are made of a high quality card stock the pages don’t bend, tear or warp. They’ll look as beautiful today as they will in years to come!!

It’s also awesome that we have the luxury of creating albums in original sizes to personalize it even further for our clients… This baby album on the top is a 4×10 book so when it opens up the image is the size of an 8×10… How cool is that!!

4×10 baby album from above…

Here it is opened to an 8×10… Pretty sweet eh?

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog to take a peek at what we’re doing around here… We’ve been some busy bees lately and have lots and lots of gorgeous newborn and baby shoots still to blog! Thank goodness we leave tomorrow for a week on a fabulous Caribbean cruise. We’re freezing over here in Toronto and we need a bit of time in the sun to re-charge, get inspired and scare away the winter blahhhs! See you all next week with hopefully a tan (not a burn)!

Hello Rainbow Eleven Readers!!

I just wanted to put up a quick post as I’ve been getting a lot of emails lately from apprehensive parents wanting to book a shoot but worried about their baby’s skin. Most people think that babies have perfect skin and can’t imagine why and image would need to be retouched… Here’s the answer… even newborns can experience what is called baby acne. It’s a very common skin condition that newborns experience shortly after the first week. Little raised blemishes and bumps on the skin isn’t exactly the way you want to remember your little one at this special time.

BABY PHOTO BEFORE RETOUCHING:

This is why it is so important to choose a photographer that offers professional retouching. Baby Carys is a gorgeous little 6 month old, but she experienced dry, red, blotchy skin as soon as the winter weather hit. Her mom was concerned about how the photographs would turn out and I assured her that we could work wonders for her baby album. All of our prints, canvases and baby albums are professional retouched by our AMAZING editor to fine art quality.

BABY PHOTO AFTER RETOUCHING:

Thanks for reading and we have some more awesome baby photography sessions to come shortly

A lot of regular readers will be familiar with this cute little baby below!! Yes, you’ve guessed it, it’s baby Matteo… He’s a big boy now, all grown up at 6 months old! I feel soo very lucky that I have the ability to capture the first year of his life with my camera. Matteo’s parents can always look back on these images and remember what Matteo was like at each little milestone! Isn’t that AWESOME!! It’s just another reason why I love creating unique and creative baby photos for my clients, I just feel that their baby’s memories deserve the very best.

Three months ago, when I photographed Matteo’s 2nd baby session, I realized what an alert and expressive baby he was. He was all giggles and smiles then. I also noticed that at 6 months, he was very aware of me and my camera, always looking up at me with his twinkly eyes… very cute!

Matteo loved the feeling of the sheepskin rug and was playing with the fuzzy textures in his fingers… He was having a great time!!

I think that photographing little details like, toes, fingers and eyelashes can be sooo cute and something that as parents you may soon forget as your baby quickly grows. How nice it is to have a memory of how teeny tiny your children were as baby’s.

See what I mean about expressive!! He was singing along and had a giggle while mommy and daddy sang him some of his favourite songs

I was really happy about Matteo coming by the studio so I could use my new sofa for the shoot. I love photographing 6 month old babies as they can sit up on their own, but can’t scoot away too easily. I also love all of the adorable baby chubbiness that comes along with this age.

At the end of the shoot, it was time for baby Matteo to get ready to go home… He was looking very fashionable in his sporty collared polo, so I couldn’t resist taking a few shots of him getting ready for the car ride home…

Have you ever seen anything cuter than Matteo in his rolly polly snow suit?? He looks like the Michelin Man!! So sweet… He just waited patiently, all bundled up for his mom and dad to take him home. Thanks so much to Linh and Frank for choosing me to photograph such special moments in your baby’s life! Can’t wait to see how Matteo changes in 3 more months!!