Perfection in Pink

Oh, it's torture living next door to a baby so sweet and just so perfect.

(There's two neighbor babies coming in the next month, too. Apparently, my husband unknowingly installed a water filter to prevent whatever was in my cul-de-sac's water from making it to our faucet. Perhaps three fresh babies in the neighborhood will change his mind. I mean, seeing her, how could resist? :)

Jet and a GMC

Requests for sessions with family animals are pretty commonplace for me, but I've been dying to do a session with a girl and her horse. While there's lots of things that I drive past on a regular basis wishing I had my camera (really, it's time I get a small one that can be dropped in my purse), I gotta tell you that, other than people, nothing draws me more to grab my camera more than driving by fields of horses. So when I had the opportunity to photograph this teen and her horse, Jet, I completely jumped at the chance.

(Though I must admit that the old GMC parked by the barn had me equally as excited. Funny how the older, more beat up, textured and weathered the item is, the more I know it's going to be fabulous in pictures. ;)

Returns

My dear friend from college, whom I haven't seen in four long years, returned home to visit this week, bringing the warm weather from North Carolina and her first born with her. I've been dying to get most adorable little "Mouse" in my arms and in my lens since her birth, though I'm not too sure she was as thrilled with me holding her (though she looks like her daddy, she is certainly her momma's girl), nor maybe photographing her as she certainly showed me her more serious side today. Still, I was thrilled that J and I persevered in finding a patch of yellow flowers somewhere--anywhere--in Berks County today to place Mouse in. Ah, spring has returned, too.

Much love, and many thanks, J&P. What an amazing and beautiful little girl you have.

Anticipation

I often don't get asked often by friends to photograph their bellies during their pregnancies. So when my friend and neighbor told me she was expecting last year, I must admit that I sincerely hoped she'd ask me to photograph her pregnancy. Certainly, every pregnancy is miraculous, but some are just moreso than others. Hers is one of those: took a long time to happen, and then was difficult not only in the beginning, but also in the middle. Seeing her and her family touch her now full-term belly today, you just knew that they're not only anxiously awaiting soon meeting their baby, but that they're also feeling a well-deserved sense of accomplishment that they've finally made it.