You know the look. The faces, the hands, the rolled eyes.
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I love the first year of life. Every day is different. So when I get to see them every couple of months and capture them with my camera, I love my job so much. This little guy is the son of a Firefighter. I love when I can integrate bits of the parent’s lives into the images of their newborn. It makes for great images but more than that, it makes for great memories. Props are great, but even better is when they mean something. The sleeping newborns, curled up in the same position as when they were in the womb, are so precious.
.jpg "firemans newborn in cinnaminson")     11 comments These are fantastic!! I am such a fan of your work! You have such a talent for capturing such precious moments. Claire – These images are to die for! Love your work! So beautiful! I love his little hat too. Oh my goodness that is cute!! These are absolutely stunning! I love the wonderful, golden patch of light you found. These are so incredibly cute! LOVE!!! Seriously!? Wow. I’m kind of at a loss for what to say because each time I come back to your blog, I’m once again blown away by your talent. These are just as gorgeous as always! I don’t know if I can come up with the words to describe how amazing I think these are. What lovely light. What a beautiful baby. And just some seriously breath-taking stuff! seriously amazing pictures. Wowee. Claire, the light on these is stunning! And your subject is so cute. Love everything about these! Gah! Super cuteness! There are usually two things every little girl dreams of for her wedding: the groom and her dress. The groom changes shape as she gets older. It will usually be whoever she has a crush on that week, or whoever she is dating until eventually, the imaginary groom figure becomes the actual fiancé and husband to be. The wedding dress has very much the same timeline. It usually begins as a dress that a princess wears. Either through a movie or a photograph, an image imprints in a girl’s imagination. It grows and changes through the years and changing fashions but always is “the one”. The same feeling you have when you find the right guy is the feeling when you put the dress on. Then the wedding is over. The groom becomes a husband (no lesser of a being by any means!) but life settles into routine. The dress that you spent your life imagining has been worn and is now put away. In a closet or a chest, it is a piece of a memory of a glorious day that is in the past. But it doesn’t have to stay that way. Something that is growing in popularity is converting the wedding dress into a christening gown. This allows you to bring back into rotation that dress that meant so much to you and create a new heirloom for your family. Fashion changes through the years and you don’t have to worry about convincing your child to try to wear your wedding dress.
.jpg "Christening portraits") 22 comments [...] forget to check out the next story in the chain- the awesome Rachel Aberle of Arna Photography and her November story! Posted in Just My Kids, Life Stories [...] What a beautiful idea! I love the new version of the dress. Gorgeous. Stunning!!!! What a lovely idea!!! Just gorgeous!!! Oh…so beautiful!!! Wow. Love your images. They’re so dream-like! GORGEOUS! Wow – what a beautiful idea! So beautiful. What a neat treasure that can surely be passed down. Just lovely! such a smart idea.. and something that will be so cherished and passed down to each generation!! Gorgeous… amazing. Just loved all around. STOP! That is the most beautiful portrait of your little girl! Seriously breath taking. And I love, love, love the spin on her Christening gown and how special it is. Beautiful work in all the details and the light. Oh my goodness, what a wonderful idea. She looks beautiful in it. Wow. Wonderful. The dress is stunning! And the portrait of your little girl is breathtaking! What a wonderful idea, she looks adorable in the dress! That is a gorgeous gown. I love this story! WOW! So lovely Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!!! What an amazing tradition to start. So lovely Claire, and what a fantastic idea. these are all so timeless and beautiful and I LOVE what you’ve done with your dress. Stunning! Wow, Claire. That dress is gorgeous! That is a brilliant idea and a gorgeous dress! Life comes at you so fast. Those last couple months of pregnancy seem to drag along and yet in no time you blink and suddenly you have a brand new life in your arms. You spend nine months imagining what your child will look like. In a blink, they are 3 months old. Then celebrating their year birthday. It can be difficult to remember the way their nose wiggles when they sleep. The way their eyelashes frame their eyes when they look directly at you that first time. The way that their toes curl underneath them as they lay down on their tummies.
9 comments I really like your processing on the color ones. Such wonderful work. What stunning images!!! BEAUTIFUL! These really make me want to cuddle a sweet little newborn! Absolutely beautiful Claire!!! Love these so very much!! So absolutely precious! These are gorgeous Claire! So beautifully done! Pure gorgeousness – wow! BEAUTIFUL images! LOVE!! Gorgeous!!! I feel that you totally captured the baby’s essence. I think photographing while pregnant suits you!!! I love the emotion I feel looking at these!!! Ever see a photographer who starts out with a 365 day project, or even a 52 week project and never finishes? Yeah, me too. Well, I recently joined a group of a few other busy photographers who decided to commit to a 12 month project! If we fail this, we’ll be taking donations for a time management seminar. The best part is that it will be totally candid, lifestyle shots of each of our own families/lives. We don’t even have to dredge up random people or make our kids pose for us. We’re calling the series “The Story of ________” and we’ll each be filling in our own blanks. At the end of this post is a link to another photographer who participated and she’ll be linking to someone else. It’s a whole big circle of stories in pictures. Click through and enjoy!
25 comments [...] Click to see the next Story. [...] Oh, she is BEAUTIFUL! And i love how you have captured this discovery! THESE ARE SO CUTE!!!! Great job! This is so beautiful – I love how you captured the photographs. What an amazing way to capture her discovery! Oh my goodness. She is ADORABLE! Ugh, that little smile just melts me! Oh she is soooo cute! Love these. What a fun perspective!! I LOVED that stage when my kids found their hands and these brought me right back there. LOVE! Claire she’s adorable. I was smiling at all of these but I just adore #6 Oh my goodness, she is precious. I love that shot with her adorable smile. Perfect Claire! Claire, she makes me smile. And giggle a little. LOVE! Love that smile! Gosh, she is so darn cute and thank you for sharing! wow she is sooo stinkin cute!!!! such bright eyes! i love her!!! That is seriously one of the CUTEST things I’ve seen!!!! WELL DONE!! Oh my gosh, that was the cutest post EVER! She always puts a huge smile on my face! She is beautiful! Oh she’s so beautiful Anelle – I love these! Claire, OMG, Claire. These are so wonderful. I am trying to figure out how to explain how much I love these, and I just can’t find the right words. You photographed “discovery” in such a beautiful way. Those early days when every day is something new and exciting…. WOW. Really wonderful. Brings me back to a time when my children were still so young. Love love love. WOW this is just truly amazing Claire. Claire, I love how you’ve captured this memory! Oh holy moly! She is just the cutest thing ever!! Such beautiful eyes, and that little smile!! Precious! These are so beautiful Claire. Both the photos and your sweet, sweet Emma. What a wonderful way to capture this milestone! I know you will love looking back at these photos years from now and remembering how small she was and how amazing those early discoveries were! Claire, these are just beautiful (as is your little girl)! What an adorable way to document such sweet milestone! Claire she is sooo precious…god bless her. I was smiling and giggling from beginning to end. Great job!! Wow- love that you are doing this. Claire- the images are pure magic love her@ Oh, what a GORGEOUS story! Such a sweet angel |
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Kate Craft - HAHAHAHHA this is so true
beth - yep… I can so relate
amy lenhart - oh my goodness i love these pictures!!! so funny and so true and so real and i love them..he’s going to laugh at these when he’s older!!! that first one is pricelist!!!
Amber - Claire, these are beautiful!! We put so much pressure on ourselves to get portrait worthy shots, but simple images of the everyday are what we really want when we’re older
These are just perfect.
Jessica Deane - Love these. and yes. WE. ALL. CAN. RELATE.
Taryn Chrapkowski - Too cute! Love his ingenuity at coming up with different ways to block you!
Danielle Frank - So cute!
Rachel Aberle - Haha, what a cutie!
Kristin - LOL! So cute!
Kristin - I almost missed the entire post! The rest are great too. I love the Angry Birds family he has. Priceless shots!
Anelle - AWwww! Yes, know that too well for sure! Love the whole post, though, and I love the real moments you captured!
Verity - This is the story of my life!
Love it!
Melissa Pfannensti - So familiar! Adorable!
Life Stories: The Story of Getting Our Christmas Tree | San Francisco Bay Area Family Photographer | Laura Morita Photography - [...] whole Life Stories is about, you’re about to be in for a treat. Click on this link right HERE to see another amazing photographer, Claire Hunter. She’s participating in this big [...]
Laura Morita-Yeun - haha! I so totally and utterly can relate to this post. Adorable.
Audrey - I can totally relate to these, it’s so true! Wonderful images and memories, even if we can’t see his face in all of them.
Anna - Too funny Claire!!!
Liat Biderovsky - Bahahaha – this is so true and so sad! My Mia is exactly the same unless there’s something in it for her
Love these!
Nancy - Claire, these are awesome! I can SOOOO relate!