Last week I had the pleasure of photographing this cute little boy, born with a gorgeous head full of hair! Combined with his two sweet and beautiful big sisters, the shoot was such a treat.
Crystal Garcia Photography
Ashland, Oregon based maternity, birth, newborn, baby,child and family photogrpahy.
Category Archives: FamiliesLast week a very special baby girl was born to one of my most favorite mamas in the world. JoLee Ann not only has my middle name, and my childhood strawberry blond hair, and was born just three days form my birthday, but she has my heart already! Here is a series of JoLee during her mama’s pregnancy, her birth and her newborns (photographed at 3 days old in her home).
   
SO every year for the last 6 years I have done pumpkin patch mini sessions in my home town. SInce moving away I make a point to come back to shoot these each year. I get so emotional seeing all these “big kids” that I began photographing as newborns, some I even attended their births! This year I photographed 30 families in one day of mini sessions and wow was it a busy day! I had a great time with Mali, my lovely assistant and with all of the babies and children. Can’t wait to see you all again next year!
Over the past several months I have been photographing some local mamas for a project. Every summer I do a personal project for nothing other than to see something beautiful in my head realized and to help me and hopefully you remember that the best things in life are the simple, natural and everyday things we have before us each day. This year I wanted to simple capture mothers breastfeeding. There is no motive here other than to show that breastfeeding is beautiful and normal and different for every mother. Many of of breastfeeding babies, depending on how many we have fore years during our lifetime and some people never have a single photo of it. I simply wanted to document this stage for some sweet mamas and their children. If photos for breastfeeding offend you, you may not want to be on a birth photographer’s blog, haha, but more importantly you may need to relax and know that women’s bodies and their breasts need not be sexualized. They were created for an amazing gift of nourishment and can be seen by generations to come as a healthy and normal part of childbearing and rearing if we only diaplay them as such. Blessings.
This is me breastfeeding Josiah at somewhere around 3-5 months (it was on film so no date stamp!). Outside of the hospital it is my only photo of me breastfeeding either of my babies, and one I cherish. My husband took this during one of his photography projects in art school. I think he was the only student who showed a photo of his wife topless to the class.
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