Jen Amato Photography Blog

Category: Newborns

  • Greyson :: Newborn

    I am so thrilled to have new babies join the “Grow With Me” club! I feel like I’m always talking about this.. but it really makes me happy! To capture the first year of a child’s life is such an honor. I am reminded how blessed I am when I get the chance to meet new people and become their photographer. I can’t wait to watch Greyson grow over the next year. His mom, Laura laughed and said she has no clue how I do this? It’s weird, I have this calmness around kids and babies and my patience takes over. To be completely honest, there are several areas in my life where I have absolutely no patience! I guess everyone was put on this earth for different reasons, I’m thankful that photographing kids is one of the things that brings me joy.

    I’m proud of myself for keeping up with my editing over the past couple of weeks, this time of year is REALLY hard to stay focused. I’ve been up since 6:45am making sure I am on track and everything that needs to get done today… gets done! I am looking forward to enjoying the next 3 days OFF with my family. This is such a special time of year! I’m headed out to get my nails done and finish Christmas shopping with my hubby, who took the day off! :) Oh, that’s one thing I really don’t have patience for…. Christmas shopping! I’m over it. We are all so blessed to have everything we could possibly need. One year I’m just going to make a donation to my favorite charity for each person I usually buy a gift for. That just seems to make more sense. On of these years…. I will do that ;)

    Here are my favorite photos from Greyson’s newborn session!!! YAY!

    Lot’s of yawns from this little fella! :)Newborn fresh baby feet!! love.House divided?? HAHA!!

  • Reed :: Newborn

    What an honor it was when my cousin Erin asked me to be Baby Reed’s Godmother! She gave me a framed ultrasound photo of him and it said “Hi Nanny!” in a little bubble. I look at it all the time and still can’t believe he’s here! The girls in the family went over to Erin’s house the week before Reed made his arrival. We cooked dinner and just hung out – it was nice and I wish we made more time for nights like that. Now when I go visit, it’s funny to see a new little person there :) Reed is so handsome and I can’t wait to see him grow up. It’s been fun to watch all the stages while we anxiously awaited his arrival.

    Thank you to my Mother in Law for the new crocheted animal sets and my friend Leslie for the couple of hats she let me borrow for Reed. I am slowly building up my newborn accessory collection, lots of new kiddos are joining “Grow With Me”! I could buy everything off etsy! I have a few new hats I am about to order.

    So here is the little sweetness! He gave me about 4 smiles during his shoot…… that’s because he knew his Nanny was taking his pictures ;)

     

  • Madden :: Newborn

    You may remember Madden’s parent’s Maternity session I just shot – Danny and Ashley are the cutest! I was so happy when they signed up for “Grow With Me” with their new little bundle of joy – MADDEN! He is so handsome! Danny and Ashley had some fun ideas for Madden’s newborn photos, I love some of the big scale images. We took these last Friday, it was a bit cool but we carried around my handy little space heater with us and it kept Madden warm. He’s so precious and I can’t wait to watch this little guy grow up over the upcoming year :)

    Here are some that I loved:

  • Lily :: Newborn

    Lily was amazing for her shoot! I love when I’m able to get a mix of indoor and outdoor shots! The weather was beautiful, a slight breeze but still warm enough for Lily to go outside. When I pull up to the parents home for a newborn shoot, my eyes are constantly moving looking for places we can find outdoors. There was a beautiful open field with those little cat tail weeds that I love! This shoot has me excited about my Godson Reed, who is supposed to arrive early next week! I’ll be posting some photos as it gets closer. I’ll be doing the birth photography my cousin Erin, I’m preparing myself for lots of tears! Anywho – more on that later!

    Here is Baby Lily! She was an angel… as you can see :)

  • Griffin & Cecilia :: Newborn Twins

    He comes a whole lot of CUTE x 2!! I was so incredibly happy when Erin emailed me about photographing her twins, and to top it off – a boy and girl! I feel like lately I’ve been given some pretty cool and unique experiences with clients. After lots and lots of newborn shoots, I can honestly say I’ve never had the pleasure of photographing twins. I was a bit nervous before this shoot. I dreamt the night before that I just went the shoot and played with the babies the whole time. By the time I realized I needed to start the shooting, it was dark outside and I had no window light. HAHA! Who dreams about this random stuff? I woke up relieved!

    Anyway, so Griffin and Cecilia were so sweet and well behaved! They slept for me almost the entire time, so we were able to move them around a good bit. I’ve been anxiously waiting to share this session with you guys, I just finished up with the photos :) Thanks again Erin and Donnie for giving me the opportunity to photograph your little peanuts, they are too adorable for words! The twins were just around 5 lbs each, so we stayed inside for this shoot. A little different than the typical newborn stuff I usually post, but I am so thankful for this. It PUSHED me to think harder, to study, to practice my lighting, to get creative and find new props and ideas! LOVE LOVE!

    I mean…. seriously??

    Wittle smile!Sweet as pie!!I think I need this really big on my wall!!Melts my heart!Cecilia gave us a ton of smiles :)They love each other!!Christmas gifts came early for Erin and Donnie! :)