Babies R Us

I love kids.  I love babies.  I very much look forward to motherhood someday, but in the meantime I content myself with taking photos of other people's kids.  Recently I did a giveaway on my Shutterbug Facebook page for a couple of people to get free baby photos.  This was mostly to help me expand my portfolio in that particular genre, but I ended up having so much fun with it I may have to do a similar giveaway again in the future!  One of the winners was a girl I used to go to high school with.  She is now mother of two, and wanted to get some updated photos of her youngest (8 months).  This shot was one of my favourites of the day.  I had a lot of fun, but the shoot was also a challenge since the baby had recently learned to crawl and was far more interested in showing off how fast she could move out of the frame :o)  I learned a lot for future shoots, and enjoyed doing it.  This shot makes me smile though because it has got to be one of the most adorable facial expressions I've seen in a very long time.  I also really liked how the backdrop split really worked with the photo so I didn't have to re-edit the entire background like with some of the frames from the shoot (note to self, buy bigger backdrop to use when photographing small and mobile children! lol)

If you need baby or kid photos, send us a note to book a session (Rachel@ShutterbugDesign.com) or if you have a great baby or kid photo you'd like to share please send us a link!