I hope everyone is having a great summer! I always take every July off work while my kids are home from school, and we experience as much as we can together. I’ve really been enjoying my vacation time with them. They’ve been growing up way too fast and I just want to soak them up while I can! I’ve been trying to sneak in some blogging during my break because I never seem to have time to catch up with it!

I have a handsome baby boy to share with everyone today, and you’re not gonna want to miss him!  Cutie baby Mason came to see me when he was a teeny two weeks old. It was a joy working with him! His family wanted some outdoor shots as well as my usual indoor studio photos, and our North Carolina summer weather cooperated for us that morning. I just love how beautiful the family photos were with natural light!  And Mason’s big brother showed up in the most amazing little suspenders and pants. This family was just off the charts with their cuteness!

Mason’s mom is a lover of newborn prop shots.  So she opted for all of Mason’s photographs to be taken in my little beds, buckets and baskets.  I adore using props in my newborn photography, so this was a fun session for me.  He was an all-star sleeper, and did so well all curled up in my little buckets.  He looked amazing on green, and I adore the photos of him snuggling the tiny baby bears!  This was a great session!

Here are all of my favorites from my time with Mason!

If you’re pregnant and would like to capture your newborn’s first days, I would love to discuss my newborn photo session details and offerings!  I’m located in Wake Forest, NC – juuuust outside of Raleigh. I can be reached through e-mail, or through the contact form on my website (link is below).  I look forward to speaking with you! Thank you so much!

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Precious baby Dominique is next up for sharing on my blog! Dominique’s Mom selected my newborn mini photo session, which is one hour of posing and photographing, and includes a download of the digital files at a discounted rate from the full newborn session (for more details on pricing, visit Newborn Mini Photo Session Pricing). As you can see, we got SO many adorable photos of baby Dominique during our hour together.  She was so sweet and smiley – my favorite for newborns! I loved all of the girly pink we used and I thought Dominique was just perfection on that color.  Her sweet lips and perfect swirl of fuzzy hair… baby fever!  It was a joy hosting her in my Raleigh Wake Forest newborn studio.

I’ve had so many adorable babies lately, and I can’t wait to get caught up on my blogging so I can share them all with you. I swear these babies that come see me are just little angels… I can’t believe how beautiful and perfect they are!  One of my goals for summer is to work on my blogging here, so I hope to post ALL of their cuteness very soon!

Here’s some of the cuteness from baby Dominique’s newborn photo session!  It was hard for me to pick favorites, she was just TOO adorable!

If you’re pregnant and would like to capture your newborn’s first few weeks of life, I would love to chat with you about a newborn photo session!  I’m located in the Raleigh Durham Wake Forest, NC area. I can be reached through e-mail, or through the contact form on my website (link below).  I look forward to working with you! Thank you so much!

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Baby Jase was such a tiny one for being 14 days old.  He was so sleepy and cute too!  I had met his Mommy a few times before, so I was excited to see her and catch up with her!  I’m excited for her on this journey into motherhood.  Tiring, but so rewarding!  And for Jase’s newborn session, she requested red, which isn’t a color I use very often, so it was fun to switch things up.  And I really loved the red!  I think it’s just so stunning.

I wanted to also mention that I’ve started offering a newborn “mini” session.  I get asked SO often by parents to just take a few photos, but my full newborn sessions are usually 3 hours of shooting, plus lots of setups and props and variety.  So I figured I’d give a try to something just a little shorter and it’s working really well so far.  The mini sessions are one hour long, and I can usually fit in one prop setup (in a bucket, basket, etc.), along with a few poses on a blanket.  And then there are lots of different angles, lots of different hats switched out, wraps switched out, etc. so we can still get some variety.  And these sessions result in about 15 photos (or more).  For now I’m trying it out as an all-inclusive session – where you pay a certain price and it includes a download of all of the digital files.  So if this is something you think might work for you, don’t hesitate to ask me more questions!  (melissadevoephotography@gmail.com)

And here is cutie little Jase for you!

If you’re expecting a baby in the Raleigh-Durham-Wake Forest, North Carolina area and would like some photos of your newborn, please contact me!  I can be reached through e-mail, or contact me via my contact form on my website (link below) to book your photo session.  Thank you so much!

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