I am trying to get more involved here on OSP, so I figured I should share.

Here are a few pics from my baby session yesterday. More and more of my belly clients are calling me back after the baby is born and this is one of those couples. They are such a sweet couple they have been together since high school, they are a little bit older than your typical young parents but you would never guess it. They are so cute together and their love and excitement for this little girl is really special. Both their parents are from the Ukrain and they are teaching little maya Ukranian already.

First is was extra special to see the belly portraits I did for them on the wall in the nursery.


Here are some more pics that I posted on my blog:









here is their slideshow if you want to check it out.
Baby Maya Slideshow

Great shots Joy! I love the feet picture, that one is rockin'!!! We are finding the same thing, my wife shot a maternity session Friday and they are talking all kinds of photosessions during the coming year! Then she shot an infant shoot today for a family with a 3 week old baby. The baby photo business is booming!

these pictures are all SO cute! i absolutely love the one with the parents feet on both sides of the baby! wonderful job!

Those are sooo cute! The room is fabulous!!! Great job.

LOVE the second shot...

and said AHHHHH (not like oh how sweet ah, but like how incredible freaking awesome ah) when I saw the feet with baby pic. Perfect interpretation! I love it!

Well done!

(And the belly pics freakin' rock too!!!

Wow! Those are beautiful! I love the slideshow! Great job!

Joy those are so rad! I love the feet picture!!!!

love 'em! #2 is just stunning.

Her eyes are incredible and you've nailed the B&W's... they exude feeling. Thanks for sharing

Awesome work Joy! Thanks for sharing -- the slideshow says it all.

Karen

Really great Joy! I love the first one of her and like everyone else said...that shot of her with the parents feet is perfect!

The slideshow was amazing! The parents seem so happy too!

2 and 3 are just priceless. What an adorable baby!

Nice composition on all of these, Joy! I love seeing your work! The toning on the last two is very striking... care to share? Possible Kubota action? And that is one pricey stroller they're wheeling around!

These are lovely, Joy! 4 and the last two are definitely stand-outs to me. I especially like the tones in your conversion.

Thanks guys. I have been getting really heart felt emails from their family already!

The B&W tones are pretty simple, I do a conversion in raw and then run kubota chocolate and adjust as needed. There is also one of Becker's split tone conversions in there, second to last one.

Thanks for letting me share.

Great shots!

I love the color in the first one-
kinda reminds me of those "calibration" shots that you get from your lab to set your monitor....
do you know what I mean? the shelf with all the objects.....

all are really great-
thanks for posting-
Lisa

Love em!

If you have a Bugaboo you MUST get in a photo with it!!!
Great images

Thats hilarious I had no idea what kind of stroller that was until today. It is an awesome stroller though!