Two little baby girls - session at home / Family photographer in St Andrews
Oh dear. This one - my pure luck. This photograph, so simple yet so real. It's not classically perfect portrait of cute babies in pretty bonnets. But it makes you remember those first weeks with a new baby - tired, desperately needing sleep, somewhat confused and always behind with things - and endlessly happy.
There is so much joy when a new baby joins the family - but also lack of sleep, all the feeding and changing diapers, teething, baby sleeping and not sleeping, sour tummy... I can continue for a while, and any mother could. This family has it double.
They also have so many gifts and blessings. Full hands - and full hearts, so full with love.
This time is short, a fleeting second on the timeline of our life. Your baby changes so fast, learns new things, makes wide gummy smiles, grabs your hair and fingers. You blink, and he or she is already rolling on the tummy. Another blink - and your baby is sitting, then crawling. Another blink - and he or she is running away, a bit wobbly but so proudly and independently.
It's so easy to overlook these wonders among all the busy life mess. It's so easy to forget.
That's why I started photographing more than 10 years ago.That is also why I do baby and newborn photography this way, documenting moments and feelings instead of arranging sleeping babies in pretty bonnets. There is nothing wrong with those babies, I adore them too - but they don't make you feel those first weeks in all their hardship and glory. They don't make you remember.
This photo session was part of baby's first year package I'm offering - the first one among three.
Photographs
are copyright of Julia Pagano Photography. Julia Pagano specializes in
candid natural light photography of babies, toddlers and families, as well as children portraiture in St Andrews and Fife, as well as Dundee.