Maternity & Newborn package dealio | Documentary family photography in Arlington, Virginia

It's all coming up babies, y'all. If you want to get your photo on about it, I have a package dealio for you! It's the first "package" I've had here at AWP and since it's gone over well with folks, I'm doing an advertising post about it. (This is the post - I am currently advertising!) One maternity session, one newborn session and one small but beautiful album for $1100. It's my Maternity/Newborn package and it's pretty great. Arlington-maternity-photography-7 First we do an about-an-hour shoot while baby's still cooking... Arlington-maternity-photography-17 ... then we'll meet at your house and do another about-an-hour session once your tiny new person makes his/her appearance. Arlington-Va-newborn-photographer-3 My style focuses on documentary storytelling - little snippets of life. Real stuff. We do some posey stuff too - a few for Grandma - but the ideal is to have some images that speak to who you are as a newly-enlarged family. Arlington-Va-newborn-photographer-18Arlington-Va-newborn-photographer-20 Shooting around your neighborhood is a great way to document this time in your lives. Especially if you're moving soon to a bigger place. washington-dc-maternity-photographers-3washington-dc-maternity-photographers-5 Not all moments with newborns are perfect and I want to show that. washington-dc-documentary-newborn-photography-9 Shooting inside your home can be challenging, but it's important for keeping the baby comfortable and to be real. You're not leaving the house, so why should you do a photo shoot elsewhere? washington-dc-documentary-newborn-photography-25 And the album! You'll get an 8x8 layflat, press-printed album with 10 pages (about 15 images). You can send it on to parents, keep for yourselves and order as many duplicates as you like (or not). documentary-family-photography-album-1documentary-family-photography-album-2documentary-family-photography-album-3 And that's it! Write me to schedule your maternity session! We'll arrange a date for newborn when your itty bitty person makes his/her debut.

A & A engagement | Bon Air Park | Arlington, VA

A & A are married and they got kids and they seem to be loving life. But they're engaged again anyway. Cuz. It's pretty great. And when you're engaged, you do engagement photos, obviously. So we did. In Bon Air Park, which still had tons of fall foliage going on. Arlington-Virginia-engagement-photographers-1Arlington-Virginia-engagement-photographers-2 These two are so goofy and hilarious. We worked on three movie references during this photo shoot. This is The Notebook. Right?! Arlington-Virginia-engagement-photographers-3Arlington-Virginia-engagement-photographers-4Arlington-Virginia-engagement-photographers-5 Not pictured: Dirty Dancing, whereby I made them go down to the creek and try to dance on a log. I underestimated the difficulty of that maneuver. You're also missing the Reservoir Dogs take we did with the fam. I'm probably going to use it for all family sessions from now on. Also, imagine me attempting to explain how to do Reservoir Dogs without using the word "badass" (because of swearing). I always bring the awkward. Arlington-Virginia-engagement-photographers-6Arlington-Virginia-engagement-photographers-7 Pretty sure A is doing jazz hands here. Arlington-Virginia-engagement-photographers-8 Congratulations you guys!

Shiva & Julien | National Mall engagement photos | Washington D.C.

Shiva and Julien are all about compromise. He loves the big city and she wants wide open spaces. So they're doing two sets of engagement photos - one here in D.C. and another back home. We're not much for mountains in this area, but we can rock the big city for sure. The three of us strolled the National Mall in search of architecture, glass and urbanity in all its forms. The Mall, as always, did not disappoint. national-mall-engagement-photographers-6national-mall-engagement-photographers-1 We pretended for just a few minutes that it was super nasty cold out. national-mall-engagement-photographers-3national-mall-engagement-photographers-5national-mall-engagement-photographers-1-2national-mall-engagement-photographers-7national-mall-engagement-photographers-9national-mall-engagement-photographers-10 The never-disappointing light tunnel of happy sparkliness. national-mall-engagement-photographers-11national-mall-engagement-photographers-13 And some of the art is back at the National Gallery! We did a couple moody weird ones. Weird is good. Who doesn't like weird? national-mall-engagement-photographers-14national-mall-engagement-photographers-12 Congratulations you guys!