Nature Safari to the Last Waterfall in Austin

August 19, 2011 | Austin Baby and Family Photographer

This free-spirited loving family trekked through woods and fields and wildflowers to the last waterfall in Austin, which is perhaps no longer there! We wanted pictures of their 6-month old nursing under (or above) a waterfall. But she was so mesmerized by the pastoral landscape that couldn’t tear her eyes away from it. I did manage to capture a few endearing moments of her feasting, and they are exquisite images, but I cannot post them here! Here she is in all her innocent beauty drinking in the glistening sky and cascading water.

Discovering the Greenbelt at 5 months old

July 12, 2011 | Austin Baby and Family Photographer

This laughing, smiling happy boy was so entranced by the nature around him that all I got were looks of wonder, and we could barely eek a grin out of him! But he was having some serious fun, enjoying sitting in the wild grass and on the stone flats and playing the piano with abandon until his little body wavered and dad caught him just as he teetered and lost his newly found balance…over!

Lost in Each other’s Love

May 19, 2011 | Austin Baby and Family Photographer

Mama and baby’s eyes were just dripping with love. So visceral. So intense. Such an honor and joy to observe and document the tender moments of bliss.

Silly Blue-Eyes (and her silly friend)

April 7, 2011 | Austin Baby and Family Photographer

Okay, I admit it. My son popped on a dress, to be silly, and joined the photo session. The son of a photographer hides when the camera is pointed at him and only wants to be photographed if someone else is getting all the attention…and his good-natured, astoundingly beautiful friend, was happy to share the fame.

Lacy Baby with Spikey ‘Do

| Austin Baby and Family Photographer

This little trooper let us dress her up, put hats on and move her in and out of baskets while she was lost in dreams. And we were lucky enough to catch some very endearing smiles and grimaces before she dozed off.

Ravishing in Pink

January 31, 2011 | Austin Baby and Family Photographer

There was so much love in the room I was breathing it in. These sisters really dote on each other and the kisses were flying left and right. And mama did an amazing job of passing down the beauty gene…

Finger-painting Princess

| Austin Baby and Family Photographer

Bursting with personality, she regaled me with stories, jumped in and out of dresses with delight and a sense of theatre, and created art on my set.

Almost gave birth in my studio

January 9, 2011 | Austin Baby and Family Photographer

I spotted this beautiful woman with the picture-perfect belly in the Bob Bullock museum gift shop (Saturday). I wanted to photograph her so I approached her. She explained that she was due in a week and lived an hour away, and that this was her last trip away from home. I gave her my card just in case, and the next day she called, excited for the very last-minute opportunity to capture her pregnancy (Sunday). The next morning she arrived for her photo session (Monday). My stylist and I had such fun wrapping her in elegant fabrics and rolling her around under the lights. She was relaxed, calm as can be, and we all laughed about the possibility of having a maternity and labor/newborn session all in the same day. A day and a half later she gave birth! And in she came, the very next week for a newborn session!

Opera singer

December 27, 2010 | Austin Baby and Family Photographer

Her mom was one, and, at one week she seems to already possess an impressive range of facial expressions and dramatic sensibility .