Standstill

I stood completely still for a second. I was totally in awe, standing in front of that tiny little person.
She was so small, so fragile and yet so perfectly created.
I hardly dared to breath let alone press down my shutter because I didn´t wanna interrupt her precious sleep.
I was once again reminded, that what I am doing for a living, is actually not "making a living" but to capture memories and moments for others.

Although you might think that I´ve seen and photographed enough babies to get used to it, I never do.
Every.single.time I am reminded of that loving father in heaven, that has such love for us and such hope in humanity to keep creating wonderful, sweet, gentle little babies.
And every time I am thankful, that I am there to witness that love!

10 fingers and 10 toes...

The other day I went to this family that I knew from church to take pictures of their newborn son, Noah.
His Mom, Aleksandra, originally is from Poland and she has a knack for old furniture. She has various pieces of antique furniture in her home that she restored herself and gave them a nice new modern-ish look by painting them in bright colours.
If you love old furniture as much as I do you would have loved that house! 
Plus, they speak polish at home which sounded like music to me ears!
And Noah is just the sweetest baby. He slept almost the entire photoshoot and he´s just perfect with those tiny fingers and tiny toes and that cute little bubble nose... 

There were supposed to be two...

When Sophie´s parents Julia and Daniel found out that she was pregnant with twins, they were just a little bit shocked but extremely thrilled about the double blessing.
Julia experienced a very uncomplicated pregnancy and there was no indication of anything not going "according to plan".
When she was 29 weeks pregnant she went to the doctor for a routine check and found out that her sons heart had stopped beating.
No one who hasn´t lived through something like this will understand the unbelievable strength it takes to know in advance that when the day comes, there will be only one baby in her arms.
Despite the unbearable pain, Julia still remains an optimist, knowing that by God´s grace alone she was able to carry Sophie through to her 34th week of pregnancy.
And by God´s grace alone Sophie was strong enough to breath and drink by herself and leave the hospital after only a week.
Capturing these moments made me really emotional and editing them as a "normal" newborn photoshoot while I had prepared for a twin photoshoot made me realize that something was truly missing from these pictures.
Sophie´s brother, whom they call "Little Star".

Perfectly created

It´s December. In my head December looks like the perfect winter wonderland.
Snow everywhere, sun breaking through the clouds lighting up the scenery so perfectly and making everything glitter.

In reality, winter often means little bits and pieces of snow falling and hardly laying on the street before it all melts again and forms those annoying lovely puddles of mud everywhere.
This year it´s all different. At least where we live. And at least so far. :D
It´s like someone forgot to tell winter to come and what he was actually supposed to do. Or maybe someone told him and he´s just refusing to due his job.
We´ve had the most amazing days this December. They were either freezing cold but sunny and the morning dew turned the scenery into something that at least partially looked like the winter wonderland existing in my head. OR it was such mild climate that when you put on your jacket before you left the house in the morning you would be sweating by noon.
It was on one of those day that I had my photoshooting with Laura and Stefan, an extremely lovely and nice young couple that has a son, Maurice, and just had their second child, Tamara. So they asked me if I´d come to take some pictures of the new addition to the family.
Tamara is just the sweetest girl! With those cheeks and those gorgeous eyes you just know she has her parents wrapped around her finger! Her name comes from the hebrew word "tamar" which means "life" and full of life she is that little bundle of joy! She was also very curious to see what I was doing which resulted in some nice pics.


So here are the pictures of last weeks photoshoot!