DGN Photography in Columbus, Ohio – newborn, maternity, baby, child, family, wedding photographer, senior pictures

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of shooting this young couple’s engagement photos… they’re getting married at Walt Disney World!  I seem to be attracting people who are having their wedding somewhere other than Columbus, Ohio, but would like to have their engagement pictures done here.  Fine by me, I love doing engagement photography.  It’s so much fun and makes me remember back in the day when my husband and I were dating and giddy over our own engagement.

These guys are so in love, it’s really sweet.  I hope that their wedding is everything they dream it will be.

(I’m on a huge sun flare kick if you couldn’t tell. I love sun flares.)

These are a couple favs from a newborn baby photography session from a couple days ago.  The baby decided that the evening was the perfect time to be awake, so we didn’t get too many sleepy pictures.  But, we took advantage of the little bit of sleepy time she did give us, and here are a few favs:

She’s such a pretty newborn. My newborns were all jaundiced and ruddy with bad skin, but her skin is very pretty and you don’t see that too often in newborns.

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I’m a little bit behind in editing pictures, this past week has been crazy busy for me.  So for those subscribed, sorry for the mass amount of sneak peeks here, that I’m going to post.  I don’t like to spam people’s mailboxes…

Anyway, the weather smiled upon us, and after having 3 reschedules (2 for weather, one for sickness), we were able to finish our photo shoot!  Hooray!  We were starting to wonder if fate was trying to tell us something… (lol)

This little guy, what a cutie!  These are some fun ones:

I am on this sun flare kick.  And a hold kids in the air kick.  This one was just a small sun flare, just peeking a little through the trees.  I think he likes being way high up, what do you think?

Vivi turned 1 on July 19, and we had a little birthday party for her.  Just a small little family party, because she’s 1 and doesn’t even know she’s 1, let alone that it’s a party for her.  I didn’t even get her a gift.  Ok, I gave her the gift of life, and I feed her every day, so I figure that’s enough for a 1 year old.

Anyway, I do need to get my kids out to the park for some park portraits.  It seems like everyone else has great portraits of their kids except the photographer’s kids.  My goal is sometime in the next 2 weeks.  We’ll see.

Vivi’s a HUGE fan of cake. And ice cream.  What’s not to like?  She let her big sister and brother blow out her candle, but she quite managed to pick up her hunk of cake and eat the whole thing herself.

This cake moustache cracks me up.

Finger licking good!

The next day, we had leftover cake, and she learned the sign for “more” in about 10 minutes.  She’s getting her sweet tooth already.

On Monday, I went to a studio lighting workshop here in town, and we worked on some lighting techniques.  These are some shots with the model they provided, named Jeremy.  (Normally the people I photograph don’t have unbuttoned shirts and boxers peeking out   They decided to have a male model because the women photographers outnumbered the men…

His hair actually stays put in that flippy style, I wonder how much hairspray is in it…

Ok I’ve finally had some time to go through the photos I took of these adorable kids the other day.  They were sweet as can be, and so cooperative (as much as a 5 and a 3 year old can be, anyway!)  I pulled a few favs from the shoot for their mom who is anxiously waiting to see them!

I had another session for 2 year pictures yesterday, and the park was the perfect place for a little energetic boy to run around and have fun.

I’m posting more than my usual sneak peek, because I thought it was cute that their grandma subscribes to my blog.  So the extra pictures here are for grandma.

That’s up in the treehouse at Inniswoods, and he was thrilled to be so up high!

(The ranger didn’t see him climbing on his golf cart, which he thought was the best thing since sliced bread)

So… we were originally scheduled to do these 2 year pictures last Tuesday, but it was downpouring.  So we rescheduled for Thursday, but the boy was sick and coincidentally so was I (I got a BAD cold…) so we rescheduled it for today.

On the way over to Inniswoods, I saw a few sprinkles on my car.  We stood there debating about what the weather was going to do.  It would suck to walk all the way back into the park, only to get caught in a downpour (especially for my camera equipment), and this is what we saw from the park entrance:

Hmmm think that’s coming our way, or going some other way?   We had part of the session before the drops started to come, and we decided to schedule the other half for next week.  So stay tuned for more cuteness next week, but here’s the sneak peek from what we did get (at the park entrance) today.

I don’t think this kid takes a bad picture, ever… and so easy to photograph being all smiles.  Good day for him, bad day for the weather!

The last one was after she removed his white shirt so that it would stay white for next week.  But how cute is that?

Yesterday I had family / maternity combo photo session at the park for one of my friends, and her little girl has the cutest cheeks in the world.  I’ve been wanting to take some pictures of those cheeks since the first time I saw her.  (She tells me her favorite color is pink and she is hoping she gets a baby sister!)

Anyway, here are some favs from yesterday (I meant to put the sneak peek up last night, but I fell asleep while I was putting the baby to bed)

Today I photographed a cute little girl, who is the cousin of a little boy whose first birthday pictures I did in March.  Only, she is turning 3 in August.  At first, she was shy and wasn’t sure what to make of me, but we got her jumping around in her tutu, and when it was time to go, she gave me a big hug. awwww.

I heard some stories about how not-so-good she was for her 1st and 2nd birthday pictures, and couldn’t believe that this smiling princess was the same little girl.