Newborn Baby Girl | Mila

Welcome back to my blog! It’s been an overwhelming minute since I’ve been to this place in my business. We all know that 2020 was a complete mess, but what a lot of people don’t know is the changes it made to the photography world. Y’all want photos in this new world! Twenty-twenty saw my busiest business year ever. With about 7 weeks off for the shut down, May 2020 kicked off a season of playing catch up, from cancelled sessions and a whole new client pool searching for photographers for their family needs. I feel like just this month I’ve finally caught up; a whopping 18 months later.

So, forgive my blogging absence, as it took a back seat. I hope to be back at it, and consistent with it, in 2022. New year, new me, right?

With that, meet baby Mila! She kicked off this year as the first Newborn at Christie Leigh Photo and she set the bar pretty high.

This is the second time The Hermsdorfer Family came to see me post pandemic… well third, but second time for a newborn. Baby Cayden was born March 2020 and he came to see me at 8 weeks old for a newborn session that went fantastic; and now they were all back in my studio this week, plus one!

Speaking of Cayden, he is actually the most well behaved 21 month old in the history of 21 month olds.

I always start the session with family photos. It took Cayden a minute to warm his smile up, but he eventually caught on and was even excited [and still enough] to hold his baby sister all by himself! After family sessions, we moved onto the prop pose that mom, Heather, requested in the heart bowl. Girlfriend peed, pooped and puked before she fell asleep and allowed me to pose her. Those dramatics aren’t abnormal in the newborn world.

After the heart bowl, her session was smooth sailing. The family picked their posing bag colors [lots of pinks and florals were used in the studio that day!] and Mila stayed asleep through out the remainder of the session, enough to hit all the requested poses- complete with a little froggy. Moms make all the requests, but dad is almost always my assistant, when I need it. It’s interesting anticipating dad’s reaction to the way I mold his baby, not know what the end result is going to be. Mila’s dad, Eric, was quiet and focused as he listened to my instructions and continually went after Mila’s little feet that she kept tucking away under her belly.

Always finish with details.

Mila is, hopefully, the example of 2022 newborns and all the creativity we will create together this year! Congratulations to The Hermsdorfers, Party of 4!!