I’m happy to finally be here (on the blog), sharing THIS family’s photos…I believe Que was one of the first to compliment my work and to tell me that I would be doing her family photos one day. Fast forward a couple of years, and we fiiiinally made it happen! YAY! Not only did I have the pleasure of “shooting” her family, but I was one of the first to find out the gender of their new baby…After two super cute and cool boys…there’s a BABY GIRL on the way! Eeek! So excited for this beautiful family! I pray that this will not be the first and last time that I get them in front of my camera 😉

I think the right pic pretty is pretty accurate as far as how they feel about a little sister coming along. 🙂

Her name will be J-O-L-I

They were giving me quick smiles because they wanted the PINK paint OFF of them! LOL!

One of my all-time favorite maternity shots!!!

Finally throwing a little pink in the mix!

Congrats to the Butler Family! I really can’t wait to see her!

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Goodness! I edited these pictures thinking “Dear Lord. If you ever decide to bless me with twins…or even just one sweet baby…pppplease let me look like this during my pregnancy!” Nikita is carrying these babies with so much confidence. I mean, I’m sure she has her moments, but for her and her husband’s maternity session, she sure showed up and blew me away! She’d planted the seed of me shooting her TWIN maternity session months ago…so I’d always thought about cute things we could do, but her session surpassed anything that I saw in my head.

These two were a dream. They trusted me on the location, the time, the props, the everrrrything. The only request they  had was to incorporate the dad-to-be’s job. When she told me he was a firefighter…I thought HECK YEAH! I knew it’d be HOT and different from anything I’d ever done, but again…it turned out so amazing in my opinion. They rocked the shots with that hot gear on like I’m sure no one else could do (or at least they set the bar pretty high)! I’m just loving incorporating a little of my client’s visions + a little of my vision.

On a deeper & personal note, when Nikita saw these images for the first time, she sent me the most thoughtful message that made me tear up and feel so honored and blessed to be a part of these moments for such amazing people! 🙂 Believe me, each and every time I hear such powerful words from my clients and just people in general I humbly think “Really?!” I compare myself so often to photographers that have been doing this for YEARS, but you guys sure push and inspire me to keep on keepin’ on with this photography journey.

Anyway, take a look at these awesome parents-to-be.

I really love the evening sunlight. I’m thinking about just shooting exclusively during the “golden hours” now.

The tops that Baby Girl and Baby Boy will wear home!

I can’t imagine Nikita and Eddie’s excitement…I’m even overly anxious to see their pictures when they make it here!!!:D

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That amazing person happens to be MY mommy! I’m always on a social network talking about how much my mom means to me, and I don’t mean to gloat or be annoying, but I just love and appreciate my mom SO SO SO very much. So often we see people running to their social networks to vent about their parents or giving them credit only on special occasions. I know that each day we have with our loved ones is a blessing, and I do not take that for granted. Is every day perfect with us? Uh. NO! but there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t end with … “I love you, mom.”

Anyway, I’m going to try not to sit here and sob or write a book about my mom, but I just want to acknowledge her birthday on my small space on the web. My mom has been through SO much in life that when her book comes out, I’m sure she’ll be a top seller (Go, mom!). I’m always extremely thankful on her birthday that God has given her the strength another year to continue being the “hard fighting soldier on this battlefield” that she is!

I’m excited to see what this year has in store for you, my love!

SN: These are the pictures I took for my mom’s audition. She just needed a headshot, but we turned it into a little mini shoot. 😉

It was a pleasure working with Jasmine. When she contacted me for a shoot for her and her family, she seemed to know exactly what she wanted, but still open to any suggestions I offered. Her family came dressed so cute in coordinating blue and white. My faaave was litte “Junior Man”, such a cutie pie. The only catch is that you ABSOLUTELY have to talk to him for laughs, lol! You can tell that these awesome parents give him a ton of attention and love.

Extremely proud of the picture on the right. It is my first successful “head swap”. I really wanted a picture of everyone smiling. I’m thrilled that I was able to sort of create that. It ended up being our favorite from the session!

I came back a day or two to capture some of Junior Man’s awesome three-monthness…in the comfort of their home!

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If you would have told me 10 years ago “Farrahn, I predict in 10 years, YOU’ll be taking maternity pictures for JANET.” I would have thought you’d lost your mind…and fortunately, I would have been SO wrong because here we are…she is certainly getting ready to welcome a baby boy. I don’t doubt for one second that Janet (Nunu) wont be an excellent parent because she’s an awesome “Aunt Nunu” to my God kids and her little niece Harmony. They love her! It’s just going to be a different experience watching her with a little one during that teeny tiny stage, but as I stated, I know that those natural mothering skills will kick in and she’ll do a great job, and I’m excited to watch her journey. Hopefully, I’ll be called a few more time to take pictures along the way.

I’ve enjoyed editing these pictures, and I had  a very hard time choosing which ones to share for sneak peeks. She’s got the smallest and cutest little seven month bump that I’ve ever seen! It’s probably a good thing that I don’t live in Augusta because I would have wanted to try all sorts of new things with her and her bump, and I know she would have been all up for it! Anyway, I appreciate being asked to help capture this huuuuge moment, and I rrrreally hope that I’m able to come up when this little one enters this world! Eeek! Exciting!

She’s definitely no stranger to the camera, but this time she had to learn to work with a new little accessory. 

I wanted to see the happy, laughing, and softer side come out for this shoot, and I have to say…that side is just as beautiful.

Love these intimate shots!

There’s a second part to our shoot that I’m holding off on sharing, but just know that I am so excited about it that  IT IS KILLLLLING ME to not show them to the world (or at least those in the world that I know), but clients’ wishes (especially those that I love and adore so much) are ALWAYS respected here. 😉

 

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