CrystalBelle Photography {Pensacola Newborn Photographer}

Mister L and his family come into my home studio a few weeks ago.  He was such a dream!  After a few minutes of fussing, we had him sleeping like a the doll he was!  I was also able to get in a few photos of the mom and dad, something I never usually try but I am going to begin with all newborn sessions.  These few days of true newborness (is that a word??) are to be cherished and remembered!

I also made a custom birth announcement for the family!  * Personal information removed for privacy!

CrystalBelle Photography {Pensacola Senior Photographer}

Do not follow where the path may lead.  

Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Us photographers like to celebrate our firsts, first newborn session, first wedding, first engagement, first time with new camera, lens.... you get the point.  Well Miss K was my first Senior and I feel in love.  I like the control and direction an adult can take.  You can direct instead of lead, and hope the small child follows.  :)

Congrats Miss K!  and the class of 2011!

CrystalBelle Photography {Pensacola Child Photographer}

It was a warm spring evening when I met up with Miss T and Miss A.  Sisters in every since of the word!  We met at an off site property just outside Pensacola.  We encountered  a few bumps before shooting, such as not having the key to the gate and vehicles too large to ride back to the property, but with a few lifts over a fence and the help of a 4-wheeler we were ready to go!!

CrystalBelle Photography. Pensacola Newborn Photographer

Little Baby T

I had the extreme pleasure of photographing Ms. T and her sister!  This family was just so precious.  

Ms. T slept like a dream for me and I got a chance to use some of my new headbands I purchased off Etsy.  I am now addicted to Esty like a champ and can spend hours debating between the hundreds of headbands and frilly props.

I started with a simple pink fleece.  It really picked up the tone of Ms. T skin.  She was like a cloud on a pink sky!  This is one of my new bands, a blue flower embellished with a black and white feather!  I love how it is not pink, but yet perfectly girly in all ways!

Baby T's mother had brought an amazing tutu!  I was very excited to photograph this.  I am now on a mission to make or purchase a few of these to keep in the studio for other sessions.

The best part of the session was when big sissy got in on the action!  You can just see the bond between these two already!  Check out the smiles on BOTH girls!

Also being modeled by our newest princess is another headband.  This one is a simple black and white flower! Very classic and simple.

Every session I have one (or two) favorite photos.  I can usually tell before I get the images into my editing programs which photos are going to be my favorite.  With this session, hands down, this is my favorite image.  It just shows so much emotion and love between the two girls, already at only days old.  This is a photo they will be able to look at 50 years from now and smile.  These are the types of images that keep me going, some days I am ready to throw my camera out the window, then an image like this appears.  It might not be the best technically, but for me the emotion wins.

CrystalBelle Photography {Pensacola Baby Photographer}

Like star dust glistening on fairies' wings
Little girls dreams are of magical things.
-- Sherry Larson

CrystalBelle Photography {Pensacola Child Photographer}

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
-- Alan Beck

CrystalBelle Photography {Pensacola Newborn Photographer}

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bank balance smaller, 

home happier, clothes dirty, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.

A daughter may outgrow your lap, 

but she will never outgrow your heart ...