Cole’s now 8 Months Old… sheesh, time flies!

I swear that Cole’s family gets more and more beautiful everytime we shoot. I am so lucky to have a family like them as clients. They’re easy going, fun to be around, and they let me do my thing as an artist. They have a horse-of-a-dog named Bach (my favorite composer), and Cole might have the bluest, glassiest eyes of any baby I’ve ever photographed. So Cute! I shoot with some pretty intimidating equipment sometimes… big cameras and high-end lenses… and they let me shoot up close, far away, on my belly, on a ladder… whatever.

And it shows in the photographs. It also shows on my body today (we shot yesterday)… in that I’m covered head-to-toe with chigger bites from laying flat on my tummy in the middle of a large field while shooting. Anything for the shot, right?

(itchy week ahead)

A side note… these were all shot on a 25 Megapixel Sony A900 DSLR with AF-lenses designed and produced by Carl Zeiss. Sony is a new player in the professional photography, but I suspect they’ll be a giant in a few years. I get astounding photographs from this new equipment and have a blog post coming up featuring what it can do.

Anyhow, take a look at what can be accomplished in a few hours’ time. I generally do not take multiple shots of just one or two poses and I treat every Baby-First-Year session as a “Family First Year” session, as I believe it’s the family as a whole that goes through all these changes. So we get out and dig into it. Cole’s family (and Cole himself) are real troopers and consequently these are some of my favorite baby photos I’ve taken to this point (along with Gracie’s). They are, indeed, a lovely family.

Cheers!!! Shelby