1 Year Old!!!

From Newborn...

...To 3 months...

...To 6 months...

...To 9 months...

...And now he's 1!

It has been so fun to watch this smiley, happy, beautiful little boy learn and grow over the past year. 

Happy Birthday!!!

(More photo sessions coming soon - I have a lot to post)

Photos by the Numbers

Wow. Just wow. I have done a dozen photo shoots since my last post on here. 12 photo sessions = a LOT of photos. Just to give you an idea of how many photos that is, let me give you the numbers.

At my family photo session on March 9th, I took 479 photos.

On March 20th, at my first maternity session, just over 360 photos.

On March 29th, another family session, 449 photos.

March 31st (Easter Sunday) saw me at a birth for about 10 hours, which turned into 737 photos.

On April 9th, sweet newborn photos, 309 of them.

On April 20th, at a family session, 486 photos.

On April 23rd, twin newborns. Double the photos. Total of 458.

I took a 2 week trip to Europe with my mom and two friends. Between my mom and myself, and both our cameras, we took 1877 photos.

On May 18th, back to business, I did two family sessions. Total of 787 photos.

On May 25th, a maternity session and family session. 531 photos (actually a small number compared to most sessions).

On June 2nd, my latest session, a combined maternity/family photo shoot - 295 photos.

None of these numbers include all of the various times I pick up my camera here at home, just for fun. Many more photos happen with my family, my pets, and my every day life. Maybe I need to work on taking less and being more efficient with a few photos. Yet as a learning photographer, I can't always guarantee the outcome of the lighting in the photos. So at this point in time, while I am still gaining experience, I believe that more is safer. I would rather take several hundred at a session and come up with a dozen good ones, than take a hundred and feel disappointed afterward.

Most of you follow my Facebook photography page, but for the sake of keeping up this blog, here are a few favorites, to recap the past few months of photo-taking.

Family Session, March 9th

Maternity Session, March 20th

Family Session, March 29th

[Birth, March 31st] Let's just say those aren't "shareable"...

Newborn Session, April 9th

 (the baby who was inside the belly for the maternity session and arrived at the Easter birth)

Family Session, April 20th (the youngest of the three kids in these two pics)

Twin Newborn Session, April 23rd

Europe (just for fun)

[Below, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia]

[Castle Ruins, Slovakia]

[Holocaust Memorial, Vienna, Austria]

[Prague]

[St Vitus Cathedral, Prague]

[Prague]

[St Stevens Cathedral, Gyor, Hungary]

[Hungarian Folk Dance, Budapest, Hungary]

[Budapest, Hungary]

[A different St Stevens Cathedral, Budapest, Hungary]

Family Session, May 18th

Second Family Session, May 18th

The two sessions from May 25th and the one session from June 2nd are still being edited and approved for posting :) They will be up... hopefully soon!

Last pic for now... This is me. This is what I look like to all of my photo clients :)

 [Photo credit goes to my mom]