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A Kalorama Morning | DC Family Photography

maggie — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:56:11 +0000

I met up with Finn and his mom at Kalorama park for a morning walk (and some really cute baby faces!). I first met Finn and his family last year when he was just the tiniest little thing and now he’s walking, running, and showing off like a champ! It’s so crazy how fast kids grow, and I love seeing their new milestones and tricks in our images. I can only imagine what big-kid stuff Finn will be doing next time I see him!

Let’s start with the tiny little guy I met last year…

And now how much he’s grown!

Janelle’s thoughts-

Last summer I contacted Maggie to set up a photo session for our then 4-month-old son, Finn. We lived in Brazil and were coming back to DC for a short time because he needed surgery. Finn was born with a cleft lip and palate.* We knew that post-surgery was going to be an emotional time for us and wanted to make sure that we recorded his beautiful wide smile beforehand. Finn has always been a super happy baby whose smile can light up the room before you know it. I had seen some of Maggie’s pictures online and knew that she would be able to catch his infectious smile. We were really happy with the pictures from that day and I look back on them fondly. They are a treasured addition to our home. When we came back to DC a few weeks ago, I knew that Maggie would be just the one to take Finn’s 1-year photos!

*Approximately one out of every 594 newborns, or over 6,800 children, per year in the U.S. is affected by cleft lip and/or palate. For more information on cleft lip and palate, please visit the Cleft Palate Foundation.

she’s already wearing monsters! | alexandria lifestyle photography

maggie — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:35:46 +0000

I met little Cassie a couple weeks ago when she was just a month old. She has to be one of the most expressive babies I’ve ever met–she already has such a fun personality, I can only imagine what she’ll be like in a few years! Oh yeah, and she wore a monster onesie. So she wins best-dressed baby in my book!

Check out her way-too-adorable faces. Congratulations Mom & Dad–she’s definitely a keeper.

oh yeah, headshots can be creative too / turning the camera on myself.

maggie — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:02:28 +0000

So I really hate having my photograph taken. Really. A lot.

But I thought it would be kind of interesting to have my own creative headshots taken and see what it feels like to turn the camera on myself. Plus, it’s not exactly professional for a photographer to have an iPhone photo of herself on her website.

Enter my partner, Steven, with my camera in hand and my car key in the other.

Of course there’s only one place that I’d have my headshots taken, and that’s a carnival! Carnivals might just be my favorite aesthetic on Earth. So he dragged me to the carnival and I went all goofy in front of the camera and the results are below.

I realized that headshots can be really creative and fairly pain-free (dizziness from spinning excluded), especially when there’s fried food afterwards. So I’ll be coming up with creative headshot ideas and packages in the coming weeks, and if you’d like to subject yourself to the same pseudo-torture that I did yesterday, shoot me an email and we’ll work it out! (The one-day turnaround does ease the pain substantially.)