Like I said in the last post I was sure I would be up taking photos of Tom straight away but I had completely forgotten just how flattened a person feels after giving birth. Newborn photoshoots are more physical than you might think so it was 10 days before I finally managed to put together the shoot that I wanted to do rather than just snatching a couple of random ones.

Tom’s nursery is a work in progress because he’s still sleeping in with me but right now that means I have a lovely empty room with wood floors and white walls and a very groovy rocking chair. I’d had some of these shots in my head for awhile so it was a lot of fun being able to try a few things out (and Tom slept for ages bless him).

OK, enough blabbing. I am just going to start putting photos up as I get to them in between photo processing and album designing. This is probably a first but I didn’t actually take most of these, Matt did. My waters broke at exactly 7:30pm on that Saturday evening (right as the credits to Dr. Who were rolling so hopefully that means he’s a sci fi fan like the rest of the family) and we were in the car heading to the hospital by 8pm when I realised I didn’t have my camera. Cue big U-Turn to go back and lots of laughter from all the neighbours out enjoying the evening sunshine and who had just waved us off a few minutes before. I couldn’t go without my camera though, I was so sure I’d be up photographing the new baby straight away. Strangely enough, when Tom arrived I wasn’t in much of a photographing frame of mind…who’d a thunk? Thankfully Matt was on the ball and I did manage to pick a lens and fumble with the settings so the shots weren’t completely dark. I think he did a good job and I’m very glad he took some because the whole thing is already becoming a blur to me.

to be continued…

I’m so grateful to Deb and Shaggy for allowing me to come and take these and share them here. I would love to do more of this kind of photography, in particular I’d love to photograph a birth so if you know of anyone who might be interested then please tell them to get in touch!

It’s rare I get such an enthusiastic sibling, Honey was delighted to pose with her baby brother. More over on newborn.

From yesterday, brand new baby brother to Oscar. More over on my newborn blog. Along with some of my new nephew Sam at just 1 day old )

Two incredibly sweet twin sisters that I photographed recently. They were 4 weeks old but at 5 and 6lbs they were still tinier than most day old babies and fiesty as anything.

In case you’re wondering where the lens and exposure data for these files is gone, well I got a bit tired of typing it in so I found this handy little plug in that puts it in for you. Just hold your mouse over the photo and presto chango, up pops all the info.

**I’m not sure when it happened but comments were set up to allow only registered users to comment. Thanks to Chris Ward the creator of this handy exif plugin for letting me know. It’s back to normal now…at least it should be.

Canon 5DII, 50mm, f2.8, 1/125, ISO 800

A recent favourite. Harry’s Mum had seen this pose done before and wanted to see if we could recreate it, I was happy to oblige. It’s always fun for me when parents are up for trying out new poses for their babies and have their own ideas of things we can do.

Canon 5D, 28mm, f/3.5, 1/640, ISO 1000

Something I’ve been dying to do for ages is photograph twins and I got my opportunity a couple of weeks ago. These two brothers were so well behaved and when I put them down together they immediately linked arms.

Canon 5DII, 50mm, f/5.0, 1/80, ISO 800

I’ve taken a lot of baby photos this month…a very good thing for me since I love them but I’m aware that I don’t want to swamp the blog with too many of them and bore you all. I hope you guys don’t mind if I share a couple though if I space them out a bit. I bought a macro lens with this shot in mind and am so happy with how it turned out. I’ve never had a steady hand though so it’s a bit of a challenge for me to keep things sharp.