summer rae: 1 year old portrait photography

for summer's first birthday, her parents were looking for some portraits to use for some really adorable birthday party invitations!

meet summer rae!  she's 1 year old


i can't get over those CHEEKS!!!  :)








now onto the girly-girly outfit and props that summer's mom picked out special for the invitation.  at first, we tried to do it in a studio-style...but summer decided she'd rather do things somewhere else...


OUTSIDE!  which is always fine by me, because i love me some natural lighting!  one of the props we used was this personalized jewelry box


another prop was this delicious lollipop


just look at those eyelashes!!


i had an idea to have summer's daddy throw her up in the air so that it looked like she was a flying fairy. that didn't pan out like i hoped (scroll down for an outtake).  so instead, i just had her daddy hold her up, and i strategically took the shot so that he wasn't in the pic.




as promised...here's the outtake from the flying-fairy idea...


it was such a fun session, and i can't wait to photograph those chubby cheeks again soon!  :)

full disclosure: this post is back-dated, due to the fact that late-pregnancy, labor, and having a newborn have made for a couple very busy months!

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