03/13/2024
Newborn lifestyle photos might be my new favorite moments to capture. Those dark drizzly days when you're nestled in your cave, snuggling and and getting to know your baby... there's just nothing else like it. It's beautiful, hard, exhausting, joyful, tearful, sweet, overwhelming, and the list goes on and on. It's a time of transformation and incredible growth. And it's a time that feels like you're slogging from one never ending day to the next, and then suddenly as if awoken from a dream, you look back and think "how did I get here? How is my baby possibly 6 months old?" And suddenly you feel like you've almost forgotten just how tiny they actually were. This. This is why I love to capture home lifestyle photos. They might be dark and grainy from the lack of bright sunlight that another photographer might be able to utilize when shooting outside in a field. But that doesn't capture what it was really like. What it really felt like to lay with your newborn. To feed them and just stare at them and study their little feature while they sleep in your arms.
To all the parents out there fumbling through the first few weeks of your new life.. remember.. This is just a phase. This will not last forever. Take that how you will, and know that you are doing the best damn job with what you've been given. You've got this.
