Pennsylvania Children’s Photographer, Pennsylvania Baby Photographer, Berks County Children’s Photographer, Berks County Baby Photographer, Reading Baby Photographer, Reading Children’s Photographer Jennifer Breton – The Blog

After what seemed like an eternity of cloudy and rainy days, it was wonderful working with this sweet little guy and his parents outside on a beautiful spring day (despite our shoes and the bottom of our pants getting absolutely soaked from all the saturation in the ground).

I think even he was thrilled to spend the morning outside after countless days being cooped up indoors…

Happy Mother’s Day, Julia!

Thankfully, yesterday morning’s drizzle stopped in time for me to meet this adorable little guy with the sweetest and cutest dimples and his mom and Jake Gyllenhaal dad (LOL–not exactly, but there’s definitely a resemblance!)

I’ve been photographing Grayson during his first year as part of my first year collection, and I’ll be so sad to not see him regularly every few months. He’s been such a joy to watch grow and change, and I have a feeling that he’s going to keep his mom & dad quite busy over the next few years!

Happy first birthday (well, a little belated ;), Grayson! Thanks for sharing him with me J&R!

Just in case you were wondering if I ever have non-cooperative children to photograph, the answer is “of course.” But honestly, I can probably only count on one hand the number of kids who have scared me into thinking that it might be the first time that I pack up my gear and say, “Sorry. It’s just not going to happen.”

Welllllllllllllllll…… today was one of those days–almost. :) Thankfully, we figured out a few things about Miss Ella before we called it quits, primarily that she would prefer not to sit on grass or a blanket on grass for a photo session, thankyouverymuch; and she’ll take her bottle, heated.

So after the first half of the session sweating it out and crossing every finger and toe on my body, you can fully imagine my delight to get this:

Now that’s a beautiful baby sitting on wood with a full belly of warm milk. ;)

Although this is the first time I can *ever* remember turning on the air conditioning in my house in April (wasn’t I just running the heat a few days ago?), I could not have asked for better weather for mini sessions. You may remember Bella from a session done all the way back in November of ‘07 (she’s up in my blog header slideshow, laying with her parents in the leaves). However, “O” and his parents I just had the pleasure of meeting, and I was so impressed they held onto their gift certificate from the time he was born until now, waiting until their little guy was the perfect age for photographs. I gotta admit that I really, really love 9 month olds–truly one of the best ages for portraits!

It’s not often that I get a request for a studio-style session–and in all b&w to boot!–but my dear clients (who I have worked with twice before and who are moving south *sniff*) wanted a few images of their sweet baby to match their older daughter’s pictures taken at the same age. And thus, out came the black background and the studio lights. :)

As you can tell, she made me work really hard for the beautiful, big smiles.

I will sadly miss them when they leave. They have been wonderful people to get to know with the kindest hearts and gentlest souls. You can just simply tell how much joy they put into their girls. I love photographing them just as much as I love hanging out with them during our sessions, and will definitely miss them after they move.

Best wishes, guys.
xox
Jen

…and one of her older sister, who truly loves being in front of my lens ;)

I gotta admit that I have a terrible soft spot for portraits of serious babies with big, beautiful eyes.

*happy sigh*

And I’m attributing that to the reason why I love this picture so much. I think he looks like a little koala on his mom’s arm, and her so protective of him, and him so protective of her.

And one more for now… :)

So big!

And one year old already! How did that happen? This is the fourth time he’s been in front of my camera during his first year (lucky boy gets a neat-o coffee table book chronicling his first year in photographs), and I have been so lucky and fortunate to watch him grow (and just get cuter and cuter every session–as if that were possible!)

Just two others from today’s session. Happy 1st birthday!

…and because I can’t resist those big, beautiful baby browns (even in B&W)…

with the most beautiful blue eyes. If anyone sees a drippy lens laying around Berks County, that would be mine. It just melted right into those baby blues. :)