As a newborn photographer, I sometimes can’t decide which scenario I like more: When parents come to me with a really specific vision in mind and all I have to do is bring it to life, or when they give me permission to do whatever I want and I can just play and have fun. With this session, I had the best of both worlds!

Italy’s mama, Katherine, brought her in to my Eugene, Oregon photography studio for her photo debut. (And I immediately fell in love, by the way. What a cutie!) She wanted the session to focus just on Italy, no family pictures, and to be as girly and feminine as possible, with lots of cream, white, and pink. From there, I could use whatever props and outfits, flowers, lace, ruffles, pearls, etc. that I thought would work best. So much fun!


Even with a very girly newborn photo session, I wanted mom to have some fairly simple photos that were very focused on baby. So, within her color scheme I did a few setups and poses with just a wrap or headband, and maybe just a little bit of ruffles or lace to make things extra pretty. More minimal photos like this are really flexible and