I want to start by thanking every parent who emailed me a photo of their beautiful baby. As I said before, my Inbox has never looked so beautiful. It was painful to narrow the final count down. If you were not picked, it’s not because I didn’t love your baby. I LOVED all the babies (too much!). For this first book project, I had to fill specific holes, certain traits, certain ages, etc. But thank you so much for sharing your sweet baby with me. I really loved meeting them through your email. And I will keep all your emails on hand for any future projects!
After receiving hundreds of beautiful baby submissions, we narrowed the entries down to 16 babies.
On Saturday, I did 16 baby shoots in 6 hours. Brian filmed the whole thing so you’ll get to see behind the scenes footage of how and why I set the babies up!
A HUGE thanks to all 16 babies and their wonderful families. It was a honor to work with all of you! Thank you so much for your time.
And what a time we had!
I’ve never tried stacking that many baby photo shoots in such a short amount of time. Has anyone? π Part of me was like, ‘Am I popping crazy pills?’ When Brian heard what I was up to, he was like “Really Me Ra? Your going to do a photo shoot for sixteen babies in six hours?” But when you have a book deadline, you’ve got to do what it takes. Right! So yes I am! And, yes we did. And those babies had me laughing all day.
We hit every emotion you can imagine from crying to cooing to screaming to laughing in seconds. And yes, I also brought a handful of different outfits for myself. I’ve been photographing babies long enough to know that I’ll get spit up on or peed on without notice. But it’s all worth it, if I get to hold those little ones before we say goodbye.
What a day! As Pascaline would say “Foofy-Do!”
p.s. A big thanks to my beautiful Genie for helping me with the emails. And I want to give a BIG shout out to Troy Nesby for all these Behind the Scene photos as well as helping us with all the in between details throughout the day! We love you Troy!
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It looks like you guys had a great time. Did you have to change your clothes? lol
lol – i totally noticed all the different outfits too – how funny – looks like a wooonderful time though! im sure you had so much fun!
It does look like a wonderful time! Love to squeeze babies!
Oh, and I LOVE the polka dot socks, Me Ra. I almost never wear completely “normal” socks and those would fit right in in my sock drawer. π
LOve this! I noticed the shirts too and the mom who looks like she might be wearing your shirt π
This looks awesome! You look so happy- so glorious to watch someone beam in what they do. You are inspiring lady!
Sounds like you had fun MeRa. Did you really wear that many outfits in one day??????
I told Brian that our ladies don’t miss a beat! And you have proven me right with all my outfit changes! π
We did bring the extra clothes in case we had any accidents, but that’s not the biggest reason. I want to edit all the video coverage so that we can have several different video lessons. And the funniest thing about all that is I totally FORGOT to change my socks! π And of course I didn’t wear BLACK socks that day. NO, I had to wear my brown polka dot socks! The socks are keeping it real. π LOL!
Awesome, Me Ra. You’re such an over achiever! π I cannot wait to see the results! The new website, the new books, more workshops!!!! π
Is that Kari with the sweet little blonde baby?!?!
oh i love seeing all the behind the scenes stuff! can’t wait to see more. did you use one lens the whole day?
Yes, Leslie, that is me! Emme was “on” for the camera! You would not have believed it!
What a fun afternoon, Me Ra!
I’ll bet you had a blast (and one heck of a workout)! Babies are so much fun. Awesome as always Me Ra.
i’m exhausted just reading this! great job you two!
I am in awe. The last baby shoot I did (with ONE baby) took 4 hours. You are amazing.
I am SOOOOOO looking forward to this book!
And, yes, the first thing I noticed was the different outfits you had on. You looked GREAT in all of them too!
Wow! I am tired after just one session… you must have been totally wiped out!! No doubt those mommies will he thrilled with the treasures you have created for them!! Can’t wait to see the results of everything you’ve been up to!! π Hugs.
I love seeing all the behind the scenes photos! Can’t wait to see some video! π
Cannot wait to see more. Love it!!
We had a great time! So fun to see you and Brian, hope you are having a very Happy Thanksgiving.