I love doing "then and nows" and it's so much fun to continue a theme to have coordinating images to hang in the nursery, display at baby's first birthday party, or have made into an album! I've been doing a baseball-themed photo series for Harrison over the course of his first year and we just finished it up with a cake smash last night. He was so cute! He was all smiles when we sat him down in front of the cake. He didn't love the feel of the frosting on his hand at fir

Giant cupcakes are probably my favorite for cake smashes. I don't provide the cake for my client sessions for liability reasons but I do make them for my own kids or good friends. Making a giant cupcake cake is kind of a pain because for the best aesthetic results you also have to create a candy shell for the cupcake base with layers of melted candy wafers and then trim the base cake to fit inside. I don't love working with candy melts and that base cake never gets touched

Cake smashes are all about capturing your baby's first taste of birthday cake! Some babies love their cake, gobble it up and smash it to pieces; some are weirded out by the gooey texture of the frosting; some are more interested in the decorations or crawling around the studio; and some are completely terrified of their cake and want nothing to do with it! I love capturing it all and seeing their personalities shine through! I can't wait to get started photographing Harris