What a beautiful baby and family. I asked the story of their red threaded bracelets. Mom explained as a wedding tradition they both weaved these bracelets on themselves, and amazingly their wedding took place three years ago.
Little did I know how nice they would complement this beautiful portrait with their son.
Thank you M&A. So inspiring to work with you and your new love.
You couldn't go wrong with this newborn family: two long and lean runners = beautiful long and lean baby. He is so cute cuddled with Mommy and Daddy. Congrats K...
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We photographed R&J family a few months ago for their Christmas card and R was barely showing. I knew we needed to have them in again soon when their little guy arrived so they could commemorate their first official "complete" Seattle family portrait.
We just created these beautiful images and announcement card. R. was right on top of scheduling and came in about a week after her little guy was born. We captured a variety of beautiful images of the foursome and just loved the way these natural light studio images turned out. Light and airy and totally natural. With two under three, it's the only way to go. Thanks R&J, congratulations again. (Maybe we can do this again in a few years......??)
If there is only one time during the first year that you can create professional portraits of your baby, this would be the age to do it. This little cutie lived up to my expectations for this 6-8mth age range and more. Such a great time to capture a baby portrait at my natural light Seattle studio. She was just a peach the whole time and a perfect reflection of her loving parents. Thanks Mom and Dad for letting me create portraits of Ms. M., you are blessed.
It was a exciting contest with great entrants and participation with our first "Help !!! My Baby Needs a Real Portrait Photo Contest." There were so many great and funny, outtakes from your cameras. Thank you for submitting them, we hope you had fun. I just loved the humor that you all saw in your children, the compositions while funny were also great, and the captions really tied it all up in a bow.
The panel of photography judges (wish I could have been on the panel) had a very difficult time choosing their favorite, but one stood out for them (and I just love the caption) ........"I spy with my little eye" was our winner. The judges loved the funny expression and the eyes !! We can't wait to meet this little guy and create some new brilliant portraits of him in our studio.
Thanks again for your entries we really enjoyed the fun with this contest. (I'll be posting the top ten finishers here next time.)
You would love to have a beautiful portrait of your baby, but looking through the countless pics on your computer, it's hard to find the perfect one. Well now is your chance to turn those many outtakes into a winner.
Enter your funniest/wacky baby picture of your little one and you could win a complimentary session and custom gallery wrap canvas, that's a value of over $750 !!!!!!
How do I enter ? Dig up one of your funny outtakes from your personal collection of your babies portraits from this past year and post the best image on my FACEBOOK PAGE. Remember you must be a fan to be eligible to enter. The top 10 vote-getters will go to the finals, and a small panel of third party judges will vote for the funniest entrant. The winner will have a custom designed studio session in March for their baby (and Mom and Dad too). All entrants that are fans will also be eligible for a $75 print credit toward a studio session valid through June 2010. (Not valid with any other promotions.)
The fine print: Submit your entry between February 5th- February 26th (the earlier you enter the better your chance of being a finalist) you can invite up to 8 of your Facebook friends a day to vote for you. You must be a Fan to be eligible for prizes. Their friends of friends could vote for you. We appreciate no vote spamming requests to third party non-friend family relations. Any image deemed inappropriate or offensive could be removed. Only one entrant per family. You must be a Facebook participant and you must Fan the Heather QuintansStay tuned for contest updates. Any questions be sure to email me at heather@heatherquintans.com
Good luck.
We just had a special portrait session this week with Mom and baby. Dad is flying home from Afghanistan and will be meeting his newborn son any moment. What a magical holiday wish for Mom and Dad. The best to you all...
What a treat, I met this lovely family recently when they were in town from SF visiting Grandma. We corresponded on creating a generational image with a more contemporary look. Sarah's inspiration was the image of her mother "the baby" in the vintage portrait. Although we would have loved to have used a home setting, we decided due to low light challenges at Grandma's, that using the natural studio light would flatter better.(I don't know how those babies stayed still for those long exposures back then. Thank goodness for ISO's about 400 !!!)
With a nod to the past, I was happily surprised to see miss blue eyes dressed in a lovely vintage christening gown looking straight out of the early century. While we created a variety of images of Grandma, Mom and baby daughter, we then turned to our more contemporary look of this sweet 9mth old with our beautiful north light window. Throughout our session she was quite the trooper and was perfectly content for our extended portrait session where we photographed a variety of combos with family, parents, Mom and baby alone. She was a peach, must be in her genes....
I feel so lucky to be able to create images that families will pass on to their children and grandchildren. Thank you Sarah and Peter for contacting me and bringing your wonderful family to my studio.
We started off a little rough trying to get this three month old back to sleep after he had a restless car ride. Although he didn't snooze long it helped to allow us for a few more cool sleepy images of this bright eyed little guy. As his parents love portraits and really consider this first year magical, (as do I) we created a "baby plan" so I'll be seeing the crew a few more times this year. They are such sweet people and in love with their baby so much, I can't wait.
