Nathan sneaked the kids away from Mum and visited our photography studio in Seattle a few weeks ago.  We had a complete blast working with his two beautiful kids and managed to get lots of great photographs that totally captured their different personalities.  After much debate this was the one that Nathan chose as their Mothers Day gift.   I just love how this photograph shows the relationship that Dad has with the kids while at the same time it shows the energy that the kids have as well.

Just a beautiful family and so much fun.  Happy Mothers Day everyone!

Dad sneaked the twins away into our photography studio in Seattle while Mum was away on a quick trip a few weeks ago.  His goal was to create a unique Mothers Day gift and there are few things that are better for a Mum than photographs of her babies.   They are both leaving for a few days away tomorrow so Dad gave Mum her gift early so I’m allowed to post these now that the surprise is out!  So dam cute. 

We designed a layout with the first three photographs into a long frame and after I printed it Nicole framed it, doesn’t it look wonderful!   I would imagine this is now taking up a nice spot of wall in their home, yeah!

This week the absolute highlight for me was spending time with a very brave and fun young lady called Sarah.  I know Sarah’s Dad, Timothy from many years ago and I recently connected with him via Facebook.  My heart went out to him and his family when I learnt that their beautiful three year old daughter has recently been diagnosed with Acute Meyloid Leukemia (AML).  At these times its often hard to know how to help someone, but one thing I could do was volunteer to photograph Sarah’s journey and I was excited that Sarah said she was ok with that.

These photographs in this post are from my first trip to Children’s Hospital in Seattle this week where she is a guest.  Sarah is starting a five month journey where she will receive Chemo once a month for the next five months.  She just had her first session recently and I got to hang out with her and her Dad and we had a lot of fun.  This week Sarah also had her feeding tube fitted and as with just about everything else she was a trooper and now has gotten used to it.

Each week Mum – Katherine, Timothy and Sarah selected a theme and this week its all about the hats and she was mostly wearing a very fetching straw number, along with her helmet when she was peddling around the ward much to the amusement of Dad.  I also got to meet some of the amazing staff at Children’s as they took time to play and look after her, the compassion and skill from these professionals is very comforting.   Here are a few of the many photographs from that day.

I’m excited to go back and capture some more of this very special young lady.  You can read more about Sarah and her story here.

I’m just wrapping up deliver of some electronic photographs to some clients and couldn’t resist posting these two quickly.  These were taken a few weeks after their son was born in their home in Seattle.  As any parent knows the first few weeks of birth are a little crazy but the smiles and love on their faces show how much its all worth it.  Such a special time and I always feel so fortunate to get the chance to be involved in a small way.

We have been very lucky recently to have had quite a few maternity clients that have come into our photography studio in Seattle which has been very exciting.  There is something incredibly special about photographing something that is so amazingly beautiful and that is also about to change in a huge way in just a few weeks!  Our recent maternity photography sessions have all been with couples expecting their first child which makes it especially wonderful and such an exciting time that I feel honored to get the chance to work with them.

Here we have the wonderful Bonnie and Ryan who came in last week and are visiting us again today to preview all of the beautiful photographs that we took of them.  They brought in their pug as well and he was all keen to get involved, Ryan was sporting some lovely tattoos that he was keen to show off his ink which we were happy to do.   We had such a blast working with them and can’t wait to see their reactions today, until then here are just a few previews for them.

Sometimes when our young clients aren’t quite in the mood for having their photographs taken we often have to deploy different tactics to distract them and help them relax.  This photography session that took place in our studio in Seattle we brought out the bubbles and enrolled Dad to help!

I thought I would post a few cute shots of him.

OK, back to work!    Happy Saturday everyone. 

I feel really fortunate to get the chance to spend so much time with my young clients.  I’ve photographed Noah since he was a couple of weeks old and have the pleasure of watching him grow and I get to see him every couple of months when mum brings him into our photography studio here in Seattle.    Tomorrow we get mark his one year birthday with a fun shoot in the studio.

These photographs were taken of him at the end of last year that I never posted in the holiday rush so I thought I would today quickly.

This is a print that I finished a while ago and just had to post.  To me there are few things more special than the first few weeks of a child’s life and its especially exciting when its the first child.  I shot this photograph in our photography studio in Seattle and I just love the interaction between the three of them with Mum being so excited while baby looks at Dad who looks so proud. 

All in all, just adorable!

This holiday season I got the chance to spend a bunch of time with the lovely Miss Olivia.  She first came into our photography studio in Seattle with Mum and Dad back in November.  Then a couple weeks before the holidays her older brother and sister were in town visiting so they came in again to create some fun photographs together.  Here are just a few previews of the many shots that we got.

Lots of work happening right now in our photography studio in Seattle as we get ready for the holiday.  I’ve been slacking at updating the blog recently but here quickly are a couple of photographs of these two gorgeous kids that came into the studio with their Mum recently.

Just adorable!