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Creating Happy Portraits of a Growing Family in a Studio Setting with a Newborn

The classic Happy portrait of family engaged with the viewer although traditional is more challenging than it looks. I have truly been blessed to know this family since big brother was a baby! And I could not be happier to create a portrait this lovely mother can proudly hang on her walls for the rest of her life. That is something we forget. These portraits will make her house, her home. They are more than instagram likes and Facebook Memories. They will be hung on the walls of whatever house they live in making their house a home. Quality happy portraiture becomes paramount. Walking into a space with their children smiling back at her memorializing the happiest and most fulfilling days of their lives is important. So being my most goofy self to be a tickle monster, a fart machine or a stuffed animal balancing act is exactly what is needed to have engaged happy kids. Part of creating these happy portraits is Not telling kids to smile, but to engage with them to get them to smile. Capturing real smiles is beautiful. Capturing play is magical. Capturing love is precious. As photographers this is our goal. Creating, pulling, and memorializing family’s in their happiest moments. Every session is viewed as a once in lifetime opportunity, because anything can change in a day. Go into the session ready for joy, ready for fun, and ready to share love.

Beautiful family of 5 with their two eldest children and their newborn baby boy, portrait by Nature’s Reward Photography

Mother and her two eldest children and newborn baby, portrait by Nature’s Reward Photography

Father and his two eldest children and newborn son, portrait by Nature’s Reward Photography

Sibling portrait of big brother, big sister, and newborn brother, portrait by Nature’s Reward Photography

Big siblings at play with their newborn brother, portrait by Nature’s Reward Photography

Newborn baby boy in a pram, portrait by Nature’s Reward Photography

Newborn Baby boy in a highchair slumbering away, portrait by Nature’s Reward Photography

Newborn baby boy swaddled in white in a bowl with florals, portrait by Nature’s Reward Photography

Newborn baby boy swaddled in white in a bowl with florals, portrait by Nature’s Reward Photography