Anna Marie Photography is Kansas City’s premier baby photographer. Our work is beautiful, classic, and fun. We pay great attention to detail, lighting, and styling of each session and we strive to create images your family will cherish for years to come.
As a parent, you’ve probably already taken countless photos of your baby. However, there’s something special about having professional photos taken at different stages of your baby’s growth and development. One of the most important sessions to book is the sitter photo session. I like to shoot these 6-10 months of age. When your baby can sit safely unassisted but it’s pulling up or walking. Here are a few reasons why!
They’re more interactive: At the sitter session, your baby is much more interactive and expressive than they were as a newborn. They’re sitting up, reaching for objects, and smile and giggle more often. I can can capture these precious moments and create photos that truly reflect your baby’s unique personality and character.
It’s a milestone moment: The sitter mark is a significant milestone in your baby’s development. They’re starting to hit many developmental milestones, such as sitting up and starting to crawl. By booking a sitter session, you can capture this moment in time and have beautiful photos to remember it by.
They’re so small and cute: While babies are adorable at any age, there’s something special about these cuties at the sitter stage. They’re small and chubby, with rolls and wrinkles that are too cute to resist. I can capture these sweet features and create photos that will be cherished for years to come.
Don’t wait until it’s too late and this small window of time has passed. I know you have heard it before, but it bears repeating, the days are long but the years are short. You will never regret investing in your memories. Click here to contact me for more information!
Baby Pictures Kansas City | Top 5 reasons to Book a Session
As a parent, your baby is the most precious thing in your life, and you want to capture every moment of their growth and development. One of the best ways to do this is through professional photography sessions.
Here are five reasons why it is important to book a photography session for your baby!
Preserve precious memories: A photography session is an excellent way to preserve precious memories of your baby’s first days, weeks, and months. Babies grow and change so quickly, and before you know it, they are crawling, walking, and talking. Having professional photos taken of your baby at different stages of their growth is a wonderful way to look back on these fleeting moments and cherish them for years to come.
Professional quality photos: While we all have cameras on our phones, nothing compares to the quality of professional photos. Professional photographers have the skills and experience to capture the perfect shot, using lighting, composition, and framing to create stunning images. They also have the tools and software to enhance the photos and make them truly special.
Create artwork for your home: A photography session for your baby can also result in beautiful artwork for your home. A professional photographer can help you choose the best photos and suggest the right size and format for your home. Whether it’s a framed print, canvas, or an album, these photos will become treasured pieces in your home decor.
Captures their unique personality: Every baby is unique, and a photography session is an excellent way to capture their individual personalities. A skilled photographer can capture your baby’s expressions, mannerisms, and quirks, resulting in photos that truly reflect who they are. These photos will be treasured as a reminder of their unique traits and characteristics.
A fun and memorable experience: A photography session for your baby can also be a fun and memorable experience for the whole family. Professional photographers often have props, backdrops, and accessories to create a fun and engaging environment. This can result in photos that are not only beautiful but also capture the joy and happiness of the moment.
A photography session for your baby is a worthwhile investment that will provide lasting memories, high-quality professional photos, beautiful artwork, and a fun and memorable experience. So, go ahead and book that session, and enjoy the joy and beauty that comes with capturing your baby’s milestones.
I’m going to say something that you are going to want to disagree with. And that’s fine. You can disagree with me, but I’m actually not wrong. I know, I sound like a know it all, but you are on a newborn photographer’s blog here and I am a newborn photographer. It would kind of be weird if I didn’t know more about this than you. So I am going to pull rank on this one.
Unpopular opinion: Your baby’s newborn photos are just as important as your wedding photos.
Weddings only seem more important than newborn sessions. And they seem that way because you have been trained by social media to believe it. And you have been trained to understand that if you want a beautiful wedding you are going to have to invest your money in the things to make it beautiful. And if you spend all that money on this huge beautiful wedding it would be kind of insane not to document that day by booking a talented and experienced wedding photographer who is going to capture each detail and turn those moments into memories and those memories into artwork. Do you at least agree with that? I think that’s pretty fair.
The problem is, you have also have been trained to believe that you can find a newborn photographer who “doesn’t charge an arm and a leg” (by the way, I don’t accept body parts as payment) simply by posting in a community group for who ever is the cheapest because anyone can take newborn photos. Listen up, this is crazy. It actually doesn’t make sense at all. This IS YOUR NEW BABY. You are just going to let anyone old person handle them because they only charge $100.
THERE IS A REASON THEY ONLY CHARGE $100.
THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING!!!
I know, I’m yelling. I shouldn’t be yelling. We only just met, but you guys made me this way. A woman can only take so much nonsense before she goes insane.
You spent thousands on a wedding photographer to follow adults around for a day and give them instruction and document what was happening.
Adults who can take instruction. Adults who listen and respond. Adults who don’t cry, have gassy tummies or poop their pants and need a clean up mid pose. Adults who independently make decisions to move and dance and naturally create candid moments to be captured.
Am I saying a wedding photographer has an easy job? No way. Absolutely not. I can’t do that job. I am hugely unqualified. And listen, if you are offended by my over simplification of the job description then you are probably an overly sensitive wedding photographer. So, no I’m not saying that. But what I am saying is that a newborn photographer works just as hard. BUT in a different way. And we deserve the same respect and compensation for the job we do.
We work with a subject who can’t speak and can only communicate by crying or other cues that you have to be well trained to pick up on. Our subjects need to be fed, changed, cleaned. Our subjects cannot have eyes taken off them for a second, their safety always the top concern. Our subjects require lighting, props, tiny clothes, hats and headbands and a room that is kept at the perfect temperature. Our subjects require a photographer that knows how to safely and properly move them into the perfect pose without waking them or making them the least bit uncomfortable. Your newborn photographer can often spend upwards of 3-4 hours painstakingly photographing and caring for your baby. And we don’t even need to get into the details of wrangling your older children for sibling photos or the hours spent editing out newborn acne and jaundice.
You guys, documenting your wedding is no more important than documenting the first days of a new human life. It just isn’t. Do not trust this job to someone you haven’t vetted, met, or talked with in a phone consultation and thoroughly viewed their portfolio for skill and consistency. I mean, do they have a website? Because if they don’t, c’mon. What are you doing?!
Basically it comes down to this, the take away is, photographs of your drunk relatives dancing to old Lionel Richie songs are not more valuable than photos of your new baby.
I’m not wrong. You can’t change my mind.
I will die on this cross. Fight me.
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You have little kids for four years. Once they head off to kindergarten you enter a different season of life. When your baby is born that clock starts ticking. And believe me, it goes so fast. I have four kids, two sets of twins. That window was fleeting and maybe even moved a little faster for me.
And do you know what I didn’t do? I didn’t hire a professional newborn photographer to take my babies’ photos. And I regret it. Thanks for the coupon code and an 8×10, Picture People photo studio. You’re the actual worst. I should have known by the beanie hat with a propeller my photographer was wearing.
Learn from my mistakes AND hire a professional newborn photographer to capture their first photos.
Yeah, I’m a professional newborn photographer now, so do I benefit from that? Yep. I do. 100%. But, also, I’m not wrong.
Do you know who benefits when you hire your friend who “has a camera” or if you buy a camera to “do it yourself”. No one. No one benefits.
Because she can’t do it. And you can’t do it. It’s hard. Like, really really hard. Even if you can do other things well, like you are super amazing at doing other things…you can’t do this.
And if you think I’m wrong, be prepared to be humbled, because Pinterest isn’t going to cover it.
I’m your older wiser sister here, invest in your memories. Hire the professional. Like, one who really really knows what she is doing.
If she is wearing a tiny cartoon style hat, you have chosen poorly.
Listen, you don’t need a new purse this month. Or new shoes. You for sure don’t need Starbucks. You don’t need it!
In 18 years you won’t have those shoes or that purse. You aren’t even going to remember that purse.
You sold it on Marketplace eight months after you bought it for a fraction of the cost and they paid you in cash and you blew it all on Starbucks in three weeks time.
I’m. Not. Wrong.
But do you know what you will have? These pictures of your babies. And do you know how long you will have them?
Girl. Listen. You will have them for a lifetime.
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Blue Springs Cake Smash Photography | Valentine’s Baby
Rowan was my first cake smash back after Christmas break and I was happy to kick off 2022 with such a sweet girl. Her momma told me that she was a serious babe and probably wouldn’t smile, so don’t worry if she doesn’t. That serious photos would be just fine. I appreciated her awareness of her baby’s personality and the fact that sometimes little ones don’t do exactly what we want them to do. At times you have to be satisfied with eye contact and no crying.
We are dealing with a real-life human, with its own brain, thoughts, and big emotions. Some parents lose sight of that and get so disappointed when their little one doesn’t perform like the images they have seen on social media and Pinterest. There are days you have to accept that your child isn’t going to smile ear to ear and laugh at every peek a boo. Unfortunately, now and then, that serious and somber day falls on their photoshoot. And that’s life. And I have to be one hundred percent honest and say I don’t reshoot when a baby doesn’t smile. I have met so many babies over the course of my career and I have come to accept the fact that sometimes you get what you get and you have to be satisfied with that. A serious face can be just as beautiful as their biggest smile.
Sometimes, no matter what you and your photographer do your baby is not going to crack a smile. BUT if they don’t cry and participate by sitting where you would like them to sit, looking a the camera, and eating their cake it is still a success. As a parent, you quickly need to learn that nothing is in your control anymore and you certainly don’t get to choose your child’s mood each day. If that were the case no baby would scream in church and no toddler would flop around crying in the toy aisle at Target. The sooner you learn to accept it the better. Life is way more enjoyable if you do.
I will say that Rowan came in looking just as serious as her momma promised, but after some hard-fought attempts at comedy, I was able to get her to smile and laugh. I’m just going to go ahead and pat myself on the back for this one. She thought I was pretty hilarious.
My advice to cake smash parents, be like Rowan’s mom.
Because sometimes when you don’t push too hard and just relax your baby will feel more comfortable and give you just what you want.
All the smiles.
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