What an amazing day! I hosted a mentoring session back in November (as you can see I’m way behind getting to this blog post!) and it was so much fun! I worked with a group of very fun photographers, and had 3 beautiful babies who were all super cooperative! Doesn’t get any better than that! Here are a bunch of the images from that amazing day.

I will be hosting newborn mentoring sessions in 2012, if you are interested in participating, please email me at info@theportraitplaceweb.com.

Seattle Newborn Photographer Mentoring Workshop

Meet Miss Della – my first newborn of 2012! Little tiny peanut slept great for me through the first half of the session and then decided she wanted to be awake for the rest of the session to see what the heck was going all around her! Super pretty tiny little thing – thank you Sarah for bringing her in to see me….I LOVE MY JOB!!!

seattle newborn photographer

Had so much fun with this mentoring session – two great Canadian photographers (I always have fun listening to their accents….which they then informed me that it is ME not them, who has the accent! Cracks me up!) We had two gorgeous babies to work with that day! I really do love teaching these sessions!

First up is Tristan – he was one of the most handsome little guys I’ve ever laid eyes on! He’s the little man of a girl I graduated high school with – good to see you again Samantha!

Next up was sweet little Mariah – she was such a mellow little thing! Went from pose to pose without so much as a peep! Loved working with her for sure!

seattle newborn photographer

Just a quick post – here are some of the fun shots taken on the day of filming with PhotoVision. What a fun day! The babies, while both gorgeous, had serious opinions about me posing them, but I managed to stay patient enough to get some fun shots! It was a long, very HOT session (that’s what happens when you have 15 people in a 500 sq ft studio!) – but Ed and his crew were so much fun!! Lots of laughter going on that day for sure! After “knowing” Beth Jansen online for the past few years, we finally met and I think we fell in love. At least I did with her! Such a funny girl!!

The whole experience was so much fun, and I absolutely cannot wait to see the DVD’s coming out in 2012!

Seattle newborn photographer

This session was pretty special to me…many of you followed a story on facebook about my best friend who gave birth to a baby girl, Brynna Elizabeth, who sadly passed away 6 days after she was born. This situation was shocking to say the least, and has been horribly painful for so many people, and I am certainly no exception. This was the first newborn session I did after learning about the death of Brynna and I wasn’t sure how I would react to it…would it be a reminder of what was lost? Would I be able to hold it together? I was a little worried about my emotions taking over…

And to my surprise, I found it to be quite therapeutic to hold, cuddle and treasure this precious baby girl. She was beautiful. Healthy. And I found that holding her gave me a small bit of peace during the grief of losing Brynna. I spent extra time just looking at her and being grateful for life. Every baby truly is a gift from God…and this little one is no exception. Thank you so much to mama and grandma for bringing her to see me on that day. It really did give me relief, in those few hours, just being able to be with her…