I think this may be the longest it has ever taken me to make a blog post after capturing a portrait – ironic that it should be my own beautiful baby girl I am so late posting about!

Summer Emily Reynolds was born on the 28th of February and we could not love her more.

Welcome to the world sweet baby girl!

The images in this post were captured when Summer was just six days old, and these are the only portraits I managed to capture myself during my preferred “less than 10 days old” time frame for newborn portrait sessions! Between recovering from a rather rough pregnancy, the entire family catching a nasty cold, a round of mastitis and Summer developing reflux there just never seemed to be a spare moment to make more portraits.

Mercifully I was joined a week later by a very dear friend, and one of my favourite photographers, Fiona Colvin, who trekked all the way over to Adelaide from Perth to help me capture our little girl. Summer was not impressed and worked very hard at not sleeping the entire time but we succeeded in the end and Fiona captured some truly beautiful images. Hopefully I will be able to share some of Fiona’s images soon!