Nichelle is another one of those AH-MAZING parents that I seriously admire. Her ENTIRE life revolves around her son Toot…and now it will revolve around Toot AND Taylor. Toot is such a mama’s boy, but I’m sure she’ll figure out a way to divide herself equally among the two.

Good God bless Nichelle for being such a trooper for this maternity shoot. She was actually the first person brave enough to give me a shot at this. It was 98 degrees out, and she’s supposed to be on bed rest. Once I found that out I kept telling her we could wait it out, but the day that I got to Augusta she decided her and her soon Toot were all up for it! We waited until about 6:30pm, but it was still hot. Looking at these pics you would NEEEEVER guess the mishap that happened during our time together! This day will probably go down in history for scariest session ever, but she’s ok and so is little Taylor. Everything wasn’t all bad…we had some great moments and can you believe Toot cried at the end of the shoot? Although Nichelle bribed him prior to meeting up with me…he didn’t want to leave. He wanted to keep taking pictures!!! I don’t think Toot realized that this shoot was for Taylor…and who was I to let him down?! LOL!

I’m going to try my hand at birth photography if Taylor will wait on me…and hopefully her newborn shoot as well. Ah, there’s that special thing again…being there for all of the special moments in a family.

Hmmm…I wonder if this is what Tyson Beckford looked like as a child?!

As I’ve stated in a previous post…I’m trying to find my niche with photography, and I have to say that I have fallen in looove with maternity. I’ve been secretly keeping up with Mira’s life via fb since we first talked about me taking her maternity pictures. Man are they a beautiful and strong family. I have to be honest and say I was a bit nervous about our session because Mira had a few ideas in mind about things she wanted. I knew her expectations would be high and I just wanted to deliver. Her family has experienced loss through her mother and a precious little baby. I wanted to truly capture what I knew Mira and her family understood…how precious life is and what a gift she was carrying.

I’ve heard other photographers say that one of the things they love about their job is the friendships that spring from their work. You become like a part of the family after so many shoots. I surely hope that’s true because I LOVE their little boy, Stephen. He was a total sweetheart throughout the entire shoot but when he loosened up I fell hard for him. I will have the pleasure of photographing baby Chase’s newborn pictures so stay tuned, friends!

Chase, you get to come home to this amazing family.

 He insisted on a count. Then, instead of 3 he would say “Boo Yah!” It’s safe to say the timing was a little off. I love it though! 

Mira makes carrying an 8.9 lb baby around look GORGEOUS!

I’m very big on documentation. I think it’ll be cool for Chase to have these pictures. In them, I hope he’ll see that his parents and big brother were so anxiously awaiting his arrival. Also, that he was a pretty big baby boy, but his mother beautifully embraced every lb he packed on.