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Just a quick teaser so that you can all mark your calendars!!  April is Child Abuse Prevention Month – You can help victims of child abuse AND get great images of the kiddos!

You may remember last year’s post about photographing newborns at Denver Health each year for the Newborns in Need program.  Each year, I join ladies from our local “Chicks who Click” group to photograph underprivileged newborns for the Denver Heath Newborn calendar.   I was honored to have one of my images from last year chosen as the cover for the 2012 calendar and was excited for my first trip to the hospital this year.  Photographing newborns at the hospital is FAR different than a full newborn shoot at the studio.  We only have each baby for about 15 minutes and have to make the best of the situation, lighting, and temperament of each little sprout.  Most of the time, the babies we are photographing are just a day old (our youngest this year was 8 hour) – brand new to the world!   It’s challenging, exhausting, and frantic…but immensely rewarding.  Thank you to DH for allowing me to be a part of this amazing project!

Me in action – I swear, I didn’t make him cry!!

I have to start out by saying that Debbie and Drew need to be sainted.  We had an array of very odd issues with ONE image in this gallery and they stuck through it with a level of patience that I can only aspire to!  But, in the end (and they happily agree) it was well worth the wait!

We started this wall gallery when Debbie and Drew adopted their first son.  They came to see me for a Celebrating Adoption session and I fell in love with all three of them.  We created a wall gallery from that first session that was beautiful.  But, lo and behold, not long after (OK, about a year) I received a call saying that they were going to be the forever family to another little man.  Another CA session -  and a bit of rearranging -  and we came up with this fabulous gallery celebrating their life, their family, their love, and their boys — just in time for a first birthday party.  Don’t you just love it when a story has a happy ending….or, to be more on target….a happy beginning!?

Thank you, Drew and Debbie for the photo of the completed project and for allowing me to be a part of your celebrations!  I’m honored!