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Austin Children’s Photographer: A Very Tiny Sneak Peek

For many reasons, I WANT to share these pictures with you. The little girl these toes belong to is so loved by my husband and me. So loved by our entire family. You see, she’s being adopted (and that will be finalized hopefully soon!). If her mom and dad are okay with me sharing these with the world when everything is finalized, then I’ll gladly do so.

For now, let’s appreciate the small things. Things as small as baby toes.

Hailey 43 Austin Childrens Photographer: A Very Tiny Sneak Peek

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A Call for Input: Wall of Prints?

Hello, hello!

Happy Friday to you! I spent some time last night looking through all of our Greece photos. I’ve been planning and envisioning a wall of these pictures. As in pretty much covering an entire wall with the photographs. I finally took the time to measure the wall and plan out what I want. I spent SO much time choosing my favorite photos and swapping them out as I found a better one.

I think I’m almost ready to go to print. I’d like to know what you guys think of the pictures I chose before I do.

My goals:

  • Keep the photographs abstract, but represent the scenery or places we visited.
  • If it looked like a photo that could have been taken anywhere, it didn’t make the cut.
  • If the photo was associated with a special memory or really captured the atmosphere, it stayed.
  • I tried to choose photos that would pop, but wanted balance so not every photo was a competing color.

Please note that I don’t have these necessarily arranged how they’re going on the wall. I will need to work on spreading out some of the colors for balance and maybe not putting two photographs of the city on the same row.

Greece Prints Layout low resolution A Call for Input: Wall of Prints?

I couldn’t fit a fourth wall, so there will be some white space (actually grey, since that’s the color of our walls) around the edges of the canvas prints.

Thoughts? Advice? Think it’s a go?

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Maternity Session with Brandie, A Preview

I’m so excited to share one image from my maternity session with Brandie! She’s a first-time-momma who is due at the beginning of May. She’s also one of my sweet (awesome) neighbors.

I just took her maternity portraits yesterday with her sweet husband, Ryan. I’m not nearly ready to blog them yet (ya know, with editing and whatnot), but I did want to share a preview. I put it on my Facebook page, but realized I have been a slacker blogger again as of late. Here’s to changing that starting with this beautiful lady!

Brandie 1 Maternity Session with Brandie, A Preview

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Austin Newborn Photographer | Baby Jax

Last week, I shared Charity’s maternity session with you; this week I’m thrilled to share she and Chauncey’s newborn session. His name is Jax. He was a big 9 lb. boy when he was born! (This is a huge, huge deal considering Charity is so petite and barely skims the five foot marker.)

They wanted a few photographs to announce him and their new little family to all their friends and relatives. They had no expectations for what they wanted of the session other than to capture them loving on their little man. I told them to dress casually, very relaxed. I loved Charity’s grey and white pajama bottoms and t-shirt. There’s something about the easiness of the outfits that draws focus to the emotion to me.

Yeah, they were tired and still adjusting to having him at home. But everything was just perfect. Aside from the little dude not wanting to sleep for us. Oh, and the few accidents he had while in the buff.

I just loved hearing these two say, “We just can’t believe he’s finally here. We love him so much.”

That, my friends, is what it’s all about.

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Magan is an Austin Newborn Photographer, serving the greater Austin area.

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March 5, 2012 - 9:40 pm

Barbara Helmstetker - I just love the newborn pics of Jax & Mommy & Daddy too! You did a wonderful job Magan! It was so nice to meet you.

Austin Maternity Photographer | Charity and Chauncey

Charity and Chauncey are two of our closest friends. They are our next door neighbors. They recently welcomed baby Jax into the world. I’d promised them I would do maternity and newborn pictures for them, but with the iffy weather and hectic Christmas schedules, we didn’t photograph their newborn session until the middle of January. It was freezing cold and my fingers felt like ice, but these guys were troopers. Only as the sun began to set did we all feel the effects of the cold.

We went to a location I haven’t been to in over a year – a falling down red barn. I love the light there, but I was even more excited about seeing the luscious green grass in the middle of January. We had such a dry year in Texas last year that the beauty of the grass took me by surprise.

I’m so excited I’ll get to so closely watch little Jax grow up. He’s already changed so much in the time since I photographed his newborn pictures. I’ll have those up soon to share with you, too. First things first, though. Enjoy the maternity session!

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Magan is an Austin maternity photographer, serving the greater Austin area.

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March 5, 2012 - 7:04 am

Austin Newborn Photographer | Baby Jax - [...] week, I shared Charity’s maternity session with you; this week I’m thrilled to share she and Chauncey’s newborn session. His name [...]