A Cherry On Top Photography Blog

I had a mini session this morning with a four month old cutie.  She had big blue eyes, a dimpled smile, porcelain skin, and chubby thighs.  As if that wasn’t enough, she arrived at the studio wearing cherries!  Her mama said it was not planned that way, but it totally made my day!  It also made me want another baby girl soooo badly!  I can’t resist a tiny girl covered in cherries!  She was so sweet, she might as well have been dipped in chocolate!  And um, I may or may not have nibbled on her soft tummy!

I have the rest of the day to get caught up so I’ll be back with more sneak peeks later this afternoon!  Thanks to my awesome clients, I have lots of fun stuff to share!

I looooove chubby babies!  Audrey was so happy to be in my studio the other day!  She grinned from ear to ear every time we said her name.  What a sweetie pie she was!

Location: Studio

I still can’t believe we shot these at midday!

These girls were such a joy to photograph!

Miss Olivia was lively and sweet.  She laughed at all of my jokes and sang songs in between.  She knew all the words to the Wonder Pets and the Backyardigans, which are two of my favorite kid shows!  She and I got along very well.

Audrey was a chunky, happy, drooly, wobbly baby girl.  Just like I like them!  She was absolutely, positively delicious!

Because these girls were so easy to work with, we were able to take our time during the session.  I took the opportunity to play around with the natural light in my studio, which I very rarely get to do!  I think I’ve done it once or twice before during a client session.  But the sun was shining so brightly and I wanted to take advantage of that light!  I think I’m ready for a natural light studio!

Another thing I did during this session that was a first for me, was to photograph a child outdoors at high noon!  I have avoided that scenario at all costs since I started taking pictures, but Olivia had on an outfit that I couldn’t match to any of my backdrops.  Also, I was dying to get outside!  I’ve gotten used to shooting outdoors and I have a hard time confining myself to the studio these days.  There is only so much I can do in there.  It works well for newborns and babies, but I really prefer to take kids outdoors and set them free.  I don’t like boxing them in.  I waited for the sun to hide behind some clouds and kept her up close to the house and we got some awesome shots!  But I’m going to be really mean and make you wait until tomorrow to see those.  I’m breaking this sneak peek up into two parts because there are so many pictures to go through.  I overshot this session, which means the process of narrowing them down will take me longer than usual.  But I had to get something posted on the blog tonight because I’m guessing their Mama is anxious to see some of the images we got!

Location:  Studio

Isn’t she a doll?