It can be so much fun to collaborate with parents on a theme for their baby’s photography session.  I photographed Anna as a newborn and then again when she learned to sit and I just had her in the studio one last time to celebrate and commemorate her first birthday.  Her mom and I shot a few ideas back and forth and decided to really focus on Spring and flowers.  The really exciting part of our planning emails was that we decided to try something new.  I only try new things with clients that have been in to see me enough that we have a great working relationship.  Because the honest part about trying something new is that no matter how much you prepare it might just not turn out the way you have envisioned it in your mind.  So everyone has to be on board that it is an artistic experiment.  For Anna’s birthday session we decide to give her a milk bath.  Milk bath portraits have been popular for a few years.  I think when most photographers do them that is all they do at the session for the most part.  Because they take a lot of prep and there is a lot of time in post production editing out splash marks that don’t look quite right.  So I have never done them before.  Because I like to offer my milestone clients a little more variety.  When we decided to give this a go because it matched the theme of Anna’s session so perfectly I turned to a colleague for help.  Tami, from Butterfly Kiss Photography, and I have been photographing babies as newborn photographers for nine years.  Her studio is only a few minutes from mine.  We have collaborated on triplets together and helped each other occasionally to push our businesses forward.  Having a colleague that is open and honest in the relatively cut throat world of photography is a pretty special thing.  I turned to her to borrow a basin for Anna’s session and she gave me the best advice on how to prepare the bath to photograph beautifully.  I really appreciate that so much.  So without further ado…I introduce to you Anna.  One year old sweet perfection.

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Jennifer Wilcox Photography is located in Puyallup, Washington.  Jennifer is Puyallup’s premier newborn photographer.  As a professional photographer, Jennifer captures maternity, newborn and baby, portraits for families in the Seattle, Tacoma and Puyallup metro areas.