We had a chance to see Bishop recently, a few weeks after his newborn session, and I cannot believe how much he has changed! It’s just amazing to get to capture the way a little one looks, and to know that they will never look that way again.
Recently we spent an afternoon with our friends Mark and Andrea, and their little girl Lila. Andrea is a fellow photographer, and we’ve been so lucky to get to know her over the past couple of years. And Lila is just one of those babies that you become addicted to. Seriously. Addicted.
During our shoot Rob created his first Moving Portrait of a family, and I think it’s one of his best yet. Check it out:
Hanki Family // Moving Portrait from Rob & Lauren on Vimeo.
And here are some of the stills. I’ll probably end up sharing a ton more with you guys in the next couple weeks, but I wanted to get some up for these guys to peek at :)
Lila is such a poser. Check her out!!
What a seriously seriously beautiful family. We’re so lucky to know them!
During this shoot I realised I have a bit of an obsession with flying baby photos. I’m ok with that.
Ok, I need to get back to work! So many other amazing portrait sessions to edit. But Hankis, thanks so much for spending the afternoon with us. We love you guys a ton.
Lauren :)
Kingston doesn’t care too much for schedules. Even though the whole world had planned to meet him at the end of this month, he decided to come 4.5 weeks early!! There went our plans for a maternity session ;)
In the end though, we’d much rather meet this little man early. And I’m sure his parents are pretty happy to get to spend so much more time with him! You might recognize his gorgeous parents from this post, or even this one. They were one of our wedding couples from last year, and we were so excited to get to shoot them in this new and awesome point in their lives!!
Without further ado, Kingston’s Moving Portrait:
Kingston // Edmonton Newborn Moving Portrait from Rob & Lauren on Vimeo.
And his images from his newborn session.
I believe Kingston was in the middle of showing us one of his yoga poses here… ;)
Hope those brightened your Wednesday!!
Lauren :)
Adam was a sleepy little guy. But he knew that we were waiting for him and finally peeked at us, and opened those gorgous eyes. I can’t believe how different shooting newborns is. It’s something we’re really really loving. I mean, Adam will literally never look the same as he does in these images. We just saw him again yesterday and he was already totally changed!
I hope you enjoy this Moving Portrait!
Adam // Edmonton Newborn Moving Portrait from Rob & Lauren on Vimeo.
And here are the images of Adam. What a gorgeous little guy.
Adam’s sister Leah was so incredibly adorable we just had to sneak a few images of her while Adam was having a snack break.
Love this one! What a poser.
Drop Rob a comment and let him know what you think of his latest Moving Portrait! I think he’s rockin’ them!!
Lauren :)
Wow. The past couple months have been such a busy time for us, prepping for the summer, coming up with new ideas, new projects, new products…It feels like we’ve finally started to actually DO all these things we were preparing for!
This is one of those things; what we will be calling Rob & Lauren // Moving Portraits. I’ll let you watch, and then explain afterwards. (P.S. You can click the arrows in the bottom right of the video to watch in full screen)
Sam - Edmonton Newborn Moving Portrait from Robert Lim on Vimeo.
Allow me to get a bit philosophical here. I really feel like Rob and I aren’t just photographers. Instead, we’re artists, and photography is our current medium of choice to express our vision. What inspires us is people, both individually as well as their interactions with others. Photography has been a wonderful way for us to capture these people we’ve worked with, but recently we’ve started to explore how small bits of video can add to our vision.
So we started with little Samantha. We took a lot of images that are beautiful captures of her and her tiny personality, but we also took video. That’s how we created that small little clip you just watched. And personally we feel like it captured things that the images just couldn’t quite get. Her yawns, the way she wiggled and kicked, the way her eyes just looked right into the camera. It’s a way to create a portrait of someone, and show who they are, even though the images are moving rather than still.
What does this all mean?? Well, this is the deal. The first five people to book a newborn session with us will receive a Moving Portrait for free. This can be used in combination with our current portrait session special, which would give you a crazy good deal!
Why newborns? Well, there is always somewhere to start, and this is where we will start. Literally at the beginning of life! Moving Portraits is a project of ours that is just beginning, and we will be exploring in all different forms, but for now this is what we’re up to. We also absolutely LOVED shooting a newborn, and can’t wait to start doing a lot more! So if you are expecting, or know someone who is, please get them in touch with us right away to take advantage of this completely unique product, because as far as I know, there is NO ONE else doing this quite like us :) But by now I’m sure you know how different we like to be!
Well, I won’t keep chatting on and on here. Enjoy these images of Sam, and I hope you’ll keep checking back in for more of our Moving Portraits! We have big plans for these :)
Usually babies this young spend most of the session sleeping (from what I’ve learned!) but Sam was wide awake, and giving us tons of great moments, like this adorable sneeze!
And such expressions. I love this one!
It might be just me and my crazy mind, but she totally looks like a boxer here!
Leave us a comment and let us know what you think of our new project!
Lauren :)
Hey Friends!
Lauren and I have a special new project that we’re undertaking and we need your help!
We’re looking for a newborn in the Edmonton area (less than 10 days old). We’re looking to do a special shoot at some point next week. If you or anyone you know is expecting right away, or has a recently given birth to a beautiful baby then please get in touch with us ASAP!
The lucky little baby will get the session totally free. Hooray!!
Just forward them this link, hit up our contact form, or give our studio a call at 780.758.0919
And a Happy Early Mother’s Day!
Today we met Raina. She’s the brand new daughter of our flients, Priety and Fabian.
I’ll post a full series of these shots later, but I was looking through them and just had my heart melted by them. I needed to share some right away.
This one got me totally teary eyed.
I’ll definitely post more later. Hope these brightened your weekend!
Lauren :)
So here is that ridiculously good lookin’ baby. His name is Jy and he’s pretty much the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.
Until you try to photograph him.
Haha! This kid just did NOT want to smile for us. As soon as he saw the cameras it was just serious face. So imagine 5 adults (mom and dad, grandma, and us) bending over backwards trying to make this kid smile. Needless to say, when we got home Rob went and napped for two hours.
But we made him smile! Here are some photos guaranteed to brighten your Monday.
He was quite interested in Rob.
See, I told you we made him smile! Doesn’t he have the best smile ever???
He wanted to check to make sure he was looking good.
He’s a true model.
Hope you guys enjoyed those! We love doing baby shoots, so give us a shout to schedule one up.
Now Rob and I are off on a little adventure. We’ll fill you in on the details soon! Until then, happy Monday!
Lauren :)
P.S. I’m sure his mom will appreciate me saying that she does not do anything to his hair to make it stand up like that (people always assume she’s putting products in her baby’s hair). That is totally natural! He was just born cool.
rose 4 months ago
beautiful picture !
andrea 4 months, 1 week ago
wow! what a beautiful baby! (and gorgeous tones too…)
Jody 4 months, 1 week ago
Very original name, I love nicknames, what would you call him? Beautiful photo as always.
e'lisa 4 months, 1 week ago
love the lighting and his expression. beautiful photo!!! :)