Being beautiful just runs in Luca’s family… you may remember when Carrie photographed his older brother Quincy… He was quite the stunner! His baby brother is no exception! Check out the Captured by Carrie blog for more of this little man. Anyways, I can’t tell you how excited I was when Carrie shared the news that Quincy was going to be a big brother. We just love seeing our families grow! As you can see from these few… Luca was quite the model himself. While I have you all, Carrie and I will be at WPPI in Vegas on Monday speaking at the Asuka Book booth from 1:00-1:30. We are very excited about our segment, which will cover the “behind the scenes” of many of our signature images, that appear in Asuka’s EXD trade show book sample. Funny story… Asuka recently told us that there were several photographers were trying to bid on the sample book at the tradeshows!! Haha! We do love our books, but the new EXD is beyond amazing! Please come by and check all their books out and say “HI” to us! We would love to meet you!

In honor of our love for Asuka, here’s a few favorite book layouts that went to print recently.

Recognize those beautifully curly locks? Carrie and I photographed Shreyas at two months old… you can see those pictures on Carrie’s blog. We couldn’t believe how much he had grown in just a few short months! He is truly a beautiful baby and was so fun to photograph! The hair diptych turned out exactly how I imagined it would- I couldn’t be happier with it! Carrie and I are off to Denver today to photograph a couple of babies in front of a crowd! We are very excited! If you haven’t checked out our latest give-thanks-giveaway, make sure to scroll down for details! The give-away ends this Friday!

Hello Baby as Art friends! Sorry for the delay in posting… Carrie and I were a little busy this past week. Well, as you can tell… we had some of the most beautiful little models at our fifth Baby as Art workshop! All four babies were as sleepy as could be . If being sleepy wasn’t enough, they were each so kind to treat us with a few of those those ever-elusive happy dream smiles. (Funny story… the picture with Mama holding sweet Bristol- I asked Mommy to give me a small smile… just as I said- “Can I get a little smile?” Bristol cracks the biggest grin!! What an amazing moment! For the record… I tried the same trick again a little later and it didn’t work, but- hey! I was still so gracious with that happy face she shared with us earlier). We couldn’t have asked for better weather either. It was so warm on the second day, that we were able to venture outside with one of our little peanuts- That’s San Diego for you! If you are interested in attending a future workshop please send an email, with the title “mailing list”, to the workshop@babyasart.com email…. you will automatically be added to our contact list!

Now, onto our next giveaway… Carrie and I just love meeting new photographers and making new friends. The new friendships, which blossom during our workshops, are truly the driving force behind why we put them on. If it was physically possible, we would have every single one of you in our studio! This week we would love love to get the chance to meet two of you via Skype. Two give-away participants will be randomly selected to take part in an hour long skype convo with Carrie and I!! During this time you can ask us… and we will answer!!!* To participate, simply leave a reply in the comment box below. There are no commenting limits on this Give-Thanks-Giveaway, so good luck and Carrie and I very much look forward to meeting you!!! Contest ends at 10pm PST on Friday, February 19th.

*If you do not have access to Skype, Carrie and I are more than willing to hold a phone conversation instead. The discussion will be limited to one hour. All topics, except subjects pertaining to photoshop, are welcomed. Good luck!

XOXO

Britt

All images copyright © Carrie Sandoval and Brittany Woodall | 2010 | San Diego Newborn Baby Photography

Two sweet boys, both full of sweet smiles! I know most newborn photographers can agree with me on this one- It’s hard to see the babies go after we have spent several hours getting to know each baby and family. Just like every one of our newborns are different- every session is different, but we love them all just the same! Of course, the ultimate high of a session is getting that adorable picture of the baby that makes Mama and Daddy tear up with joy, but Carrie and I also love the “down time” of our sessions just as well! While the baby is feeding, we love getting to know the parents, hearing the birth stories, and every once in a while Carrie (who is an amazing Mother of four beautiful Children!) is able to give new Mommies and Daddies tid-bits of advice. And then there are the moments while we are waiting for our little model to drift to sleep- Carrie and I just love getting the opportunity to hold and gently rock the baby to dreamland… definitely a highlight of our job! Many times, during those short bits of down time, we get the chance to marvel in those tiny details… the fuzzy ears, little hands, plump and puckering lips. Those periods during a session, where we aren’t posing away, we get the opportunity to capture those distinct elements of a newborn, which many times become some of our favorite images of a session. So, as I was saying, at the end of each session we have always fallen in love with each family and baby… It’s hard to see them leave! We would be as happy as ever if they were okay with staying forever, or perhaps at least a week .

I would like to introduce you to Nathan and Harrison. Nathan’s big Sister was photographed by Carrie about two years ago as a newborn, so it was very cool comparing the two. Nathan had some definite sibling resemblance, a boyish version of his big Sis! Harrison came all the way from LA (over a two hour drive!) and was one of our most over-due newborns to date! Two weeks over-due!!! You couldn’t tell though, he was as sleepy as can be! I just loved his long arms, legs and feet! He made the perfect model for the Baby-in-Daddy’s-arms-pose!

One more item on my agenda (sorry for making you all wait so long today!!) I would love to share our winner from our last contest!!!! Carolina Wahnish Rivera was the lucky winner of the beautiful hand knit wrap by Jennifer Howard! Please email me at contact@babyasart.com for information on how to get your knit wrap! Congratulations and huge thanks to everyone who participated! Next contest begins next Monday, so look out!!!! Have a wonderful week friends!!

XOXO

Britt

Britt and I had not photographed a baby together since before the busy holiday (a whole 2 weeks!) so we were feeling a bit anxious and rusty. Sweet Riley had us back in the swing of things in no time. Good thing, because she was also performing for our first Baby as Art personal workshop attendee of the year, Candi Leonard. We were lucky enough to see Riley again, three days later, to wrap up the remainder of her full session and she was just as dreamy! I’m passing the mic to Britt…

Giving Thanks | Part 3

Our first giveaway was such a huge success! Thanks to all who participated! This week’s giveaway is this beautiful knitted wrap by Jennifer Howard. This design was created by Carrie and I and Jennifer was able to bring our idea to life. Her work with yarns is always incredible, to say the least! We just love Jennifer!!! Okay, on to the details!!! to keep everything exciting, Carrie and I have decided to change things up a little bit, so the rules are going to be a little different this time around! To qualify to win this gorgeous wrap, post a link to this post or the Baby as Art blog on either your facebook, flickr, twitter, blog, etc. Make sure to leave the link where you linked us in your comment to qualify.  Feel free to link more places than one… post each or your links as separate comments to increase your chances of winning! The winner will be chosen the same way as last time- with the fabulous random number generator! Good luck everyone contest ends Friday at 10pm!

I’m so excited to not only announce the winner from our first Baby as Art contest, but to also share this video with you all! We photographed this little guy on Wednesday and we took an extra few minutes to video a short segment of the session. I hope you all enjoy!!! (And let me just make a side note- my hands are really not that large… thanks to the fish-eye lens, I have gargantuan hands!! And, Carrie just informed me that she thinks I look mad in the video, lol! Please don’t confuse my concentrating face with a mad face. I’m in deep thought there, folks! Oh, the pressure of being on video. Carrie will just have to be the star of the next one ) If you didn’t win that lovely hunk of gauze… don’t despair! We have a new giveaway planned on Monday… and you are going to want to be a part of this one- it’s going to be great! Our winner is…. drumroll….. Lindsey Wiatt!!! Congratulations and thank you everyone for making our first give-thanks-contest a huge success!!!

And, just because I cannot resist sharing a few more of this beautiful little (all 5 pounds of him- he was an itty bitty one) guy… here are a few that I have gotten a chance to edit!

Whew! That was a long post!

© Brittany Woodall and Carrie Sandoval | San Diego newborn baby photography