It was a beautiful spring day when I ran into a client of mine in Ridgewood and she shared very exciting news – they were expecting a new baby!  I always get so emotional and excited when I hear news like that!  As you can imagine I could hardly wait to photograph beautiful Ms. G.  For local Ridgewood families I offer an option for a combo newborn session.  We start a newborn session at my Ridgewood photography studio – which is absolutely perfect for traditional posed cuddly sleepy newborn photos.  My Ridgewood studio has great natural light (and in case the weather does not cooperate I have backup of studio lights so we are always covered!) and nice props to use for a newborn session.   With newborn sessions I always get images of parents with a brand new baby – I just love first family portraits!   And true to my style even these semi-posed images are very natural and fun.  And then we head over to a family’s home for the lifestyle portion of the photo shoot.  And that part is my favorite part of the session – I love capturing new parents in their own home, documenting baby nurseries, and all the special touches and details that went into setting them up.

These guys wanted to get traditional newborn photos (who would not want one of these for their birth announcements!) but were excited to do the at-home part of the session as well.    So after spending some time at the my photo studio with Ms. G. making her big photo debut, Big Sister K. and Big Brother C. joined for a few family photos before heading to their beautiful home.  The nursery is absolutely STUNNING – it seriously looks like it is taken directly from pages of a catalog.  And what made it even more special was having this beautiful baby in it!   After this Mom saw a sneak peek of a picture taken in the nursery she sent me this email : ” OMG! What a fabulous photo!! I love, love, love it! This picture looks like it belongs in a magazine 🙂 I can’t wait to see the rest.  Lena, your work is beautiful, the images you capture are amazing!  A session with you is worth every penny! ”  Needless to say, it made my day:)

I absolutely love photographing these guys – they are nice, happy, loving and very photogenic and I cannot wait to photograph them again in 2017!