We still have a few sessions left for our White Sale promotion this Friday and Saturday. The White Sale is a day of fun, high energy sessions for children. We have special promotional pricing and packages as well. The sessions are best suited for children who can sit up by themselves and on up in age from there. Each 30 minute session will allow enough time for 2 children. If you have 3 or more children, please book two consecutive sessions. These sessions are for children only (sorry parents!).

Sessions are $150 and include a set of custom designed notecards with your children's images on them. Interested in a session? Call us today! (713) 255-2882.

I know, you're used to seeing images of children and babies but we do shoot a few other things here at the studio too. This time of year we see a lot of high school seniors. This is Tasia. I love this shot!

I used to teach high school and really enjoyed it. High school kids are right in the middle of such an amazing time in their lives. It's a crazy mix of uncertainty-insecurity-opportunity-bravado-creativity-inhibition and righteousness (just to name a few). I taught photography and I loved seeing what they came up with and how they saw the world around them.

How about you guys, any favorite shots this Friday?  Please submit links to your images, blogs, etc. in the comments below or upload your images to our Favorite Shot Friday Flickr Pool. Don't be shy! The images don't need to be perfect- just loved by you!

I'm torn about what shot is my favorite for the week. It's a toss up today but it's one of these two. I have also decided that I want freckles just like him. Oh, and I want red hair to go with my freckles. I told him this while I was taking his picture and he looked at me kinda funny and said, "but I don't have red hair". He's so much fun to photograph and so sweet...even when he tried to talk to me completely in burps. It was especially hilarious when a guy came out of the door that was right next to us and said, "Um, we're doing a presentation in here and we can hear you". Awesome!

So, do you want know what it looks like when a 7 year old is over you and your camera? It's pretty much like this.

Happy Friday everyone! Make sure and link to your favorite images in the comments below or submit them to our Favorite Shot Friday Flickr Pool!

I ask you this...honestly, how am I supposed to photograph this kind of beauty every day and NOT want to have another baby? It seems like, as soon as I put the thought into the back of my mind, a stunning little babe like this comes to the studio and it all comes rushing back. Her full head of black hair reminds me so much of my first son, Sayer, when he was born. It looked just like hers.

Finnian just turned 5 and Sayer is going to be, gasp, SEVEN! I feel like a broken record when I say it but, really, where did the time go?

Today the boys are with my parents being spoiled having a grand old time. I'm still up at work at 7:10 pm. I might go for a run and then meet Steven for dinner. We'll wake up tomorrow without any kids in our bed. We'll enjoy some peace and quiet and within a day we'll be missing them like crazy. I'm not 100% sure how we got to be so lucky but I'm just grateful.

The past 2 weeks have brought me a lot of newborn babies. It seems to be what I am shooting most this month and I love it. Newborns sessions are one of my absolute favorites. It just never ceases to amaze me that we start out so small and so helpless. I also love watching my clients navigate their way through those first few weeks of a first baby. In watching them move through the big changes, it helps me remember it too, and I do, pretty vividly. I remember being too scared to cut their fingernails and taking forever trying to dress them without making them mad. I remember the bleary eyed feeling of not enough sleep and too many questions. How hard it was trying to figure out how much to let them cry, when to step in and how much they should be sleeping, eating or pooping. I read every book I could find searching for the feeling of competency that only comes with time and doing. Then just as soon as you think you have it figured out they go and change it up and start doing something new. It definitely keeps you on your toes.

One of the best pieces of advice that I ever got was not to get too wound up about any one thing because as soon as you get that one figured out, it will change on you again. That advice helped me through some tough times because it proved true, time and time again. Now my babies are no longer little babies and starting to become big boys. In fact, Finnian will be 5 in a few weeks. You might think that, once they get a little older, you stop worrying about sleeping, eating and even pooping but it doesn't work that way. In fact, I woke up at 4:45 this morning to Finnian crawling into my bed.

The worries never go away but instead they ramp up and become about things like worrying about learning, school, testing, friends and fitting in. It's so much harder when their little hearts on the line. Sayer came to me just yesterday and told me about someone at school who had hurt his feelings. That's hard stuff because you can't just fix it with a diaper change, a call to the pediatrician or a fresh bottle. I guess it's not quite accurate to call one harder than another because it's all relative and "hard" never stops but, like the advice I received back then, just changes from one thing to another.

All I can offer from my vantage point (almost 7 years into it and a long way to go) is to breathe it all in and really try to be in the moment. 5 (6,7,8...) pounds only lasts for so long. You'll turn around and the next thing you know they're walking, and then running and then...

Happy Love Thursday friends, go grab your babies and hold them close!