Love. Love. Love. These once a month photo newborn shots projects are such an amazing way to show the phenomenal growth of your baby through that first year. I look at these and I just get excited about all of the possibilities of different ways to show that growth. I love that you can make something so profound with the simplicity of a single white chair with something textured like a special blanket or hide draped across it with a frame placed in front of it for the age. (You can always photoshop in the age later.) Or you could use a large basket which starts with a one-month-old sleeping to go through the months of sitting up, crawling out and stepping out. One of the groups that I love the most from the photos below is the father holding his daughter through the months. I would love to see something like that with a father holding his child, but shot from below so that you can see his hands and whatever the sky or ceiling is doing to show the passing of time through the weather – blossoming trees, falling leaves, puffy white clouds in a bright blue sky… Be simple and awesome.
(Oh, and at the end of the year, you can turn the photographs into a calendar for presents for friends and family… awesome!)
Here are some of the best from the interwebs. (Click the pictures to get to the originals.)
