Baby Eloise :: Pittsburgh baby photographer

Is there anything quite like a newborn baby?  I really don't think so.  Meet baby Eloise...

Isn't she breathtaking?  I feel like that's one of the best ways to describe her.  The other ways include the following: adorable, beautiful, and the sweetest sweetness your eyes could behold.  *sigh*  Little Miss Eloise is only a month old and doing her portraits yesterday was a gift for me as much as anything else could be.    (YES.  On Christmas day!!!  That's how much I love doing what I do.  I'm willing to do it any time, anywhere, and any how.)

Babies are very special to me because, as it's been said, They are "...such a nice way to start people."  (This was once said by Don Herold.)  For me though?  It really reminded me of the fragility of life and the magnificence that was the Christ child when He was born.  Life is such a precious gift and when that gift also asserts faith and hope and love, well, I think it makes the gift of a precious baby even more amazing.

Welcome to you, Baby Eloise, for coming into the world and THANK YOU for bringing all of the hope, joy, and sweet baby-ness with you when you came.  You are a blessing and a precious gift for all who have the honor to know you.

Just a tad early

I know.  Christmas is still days away!  But the thing is, we've celebrated Christmas peeked into stockings and opened gifts already.  *shrug*

Merry Christmas 
and bless you and yours this season!  

May you be filled with love, joy, and peace in celebration of the birth of our savior Jesus Christ.

The Erdmans :: Baltimore family portrait photographer

I have known the Erdmans for quite sometime now.  Lisa (the Mrs.) and I actually graduated from high school together but we never really become friends until long after graduation happened one summer when we both worked at the legendary Mattapany Day Camp together.  Since that summer I have counted Lisa as one of my dearest and most cherished friendships.  It's been well over ten years since we first came to know one another and oh how time has changed things!  Nowadays she's happily married (to THE guy predicted she would end up with - I actually did their engagement pictures long ago!) and she is an adoring and doting mother to two handsome little boys.

I got together with all of the Erdmans the other day and we all had a grand ol' time laughing and carrying on despite the frigid temperatures. They are such troopers that you can barely tell how cold it was to be outside on the day we were...

Eventually we took the operation inside by the fire were it was much more reasonably warm and with the addition of lollipops into the mix, everybody was in much better spirits.

As an extra bonus to help minimize the holiday schedule crunch, Lisa enlisted me to do a customized graphic design for their holiday mailings this year to be sent out as New Year's greetings instead of Christmas ones.  (New Year's greetings are a personal favorite of mine and I always encourage my customers to do them instead of rushing to get them out before Christmas making the holiday season more of a headache than the joy that it can be.)  Didn't know I was a graphic designer in addition to being a photographer?  Check it out. Can't beat one-stop-shopping with me and I'm much cheaper than most of the retailers out there who use templates and just make you and yours look like everybody else and theirs...

Didn't get your holiday greetings out?  Let's do a New Year session and we can take care of a custom-designed New Year's mailing for you, too!