The Patriots littlest fan, Baby E will be routing for a win today. Let’s go Pats!

I don’t know what it is, but I love a shot of baby yawning! (Even though I inevitable yawn after looking at it .. wait for it .. yup. Yawn.)

Love the photo of K in this throw-his-head-back laughter shot. The next photo of B shows what she thinks about the situation.

This post has been scheduled for today for over a week and what fortuitousness! This little dude’s photo (the first one here) was just announced as the 2011 Thank You contest!

The votes have been combed through, analyzed and tallied.  Let me just say this: umm … wow. There were a jaw dropping 555 votes!  That basically killed last year’s number (229).  This year, a client with multiple sessions got an extra 3 votes for every extra session. This caused the 3rd and 4th winners to TIE! Competition was stiff so congratulations to all 4 big prize winners and to the 3 random drawing winners of the 8×10′s!

Without further ado the Thank You 2011 contest winner is …

THE ADORABLE, GIGGLE INDUCING BABY “SANTA” B!  Congratulation parents of Baby Boy B, you’ve won a full session with Crabapple Photography.

Second Place winner and winner of 1/2 hour mini session with Crabapple Photography: gorgeous Baby Girl D!

The third and fourth place winners tied! Each winner can make their choice of which prize they’d like: a 4×6 photo book full of 20 of their favorite images from their session(s) or a fantastic storyboard.

The beautiful Baby Girl F

COWBOY UP! The adorable Baby A and Dad A

Three winners of the 8×10 prints using random.org based on comment number.

1. Jennifer, “Amazing pictures! Love the red hair and great smile – my vote is for #42!”

2. Julie, “#40:)”

3. The original winner was a comment for photo #17. Rules are rules however and if you’re a top 4 winner you can’t win a random prize. Second spin of the wheel (there’s no wheel involved)!

Erin Lichtenstein, “I love #50”

Thank you commenters and thank you 2011!

Oh. Em. Geeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I don’t know what else to say about this first image. Baby Santa has melted my heart.  Baby W was a charmer and a blast to photograph. Check out his penguin hat as well

Holiday  portraits are great for holiday cards, certainly.  Holiday photos printed and framed, or printed as a canvas can also become part of your yearly decorations. The photo is something that comes out every year along with the wreaths, garland and plastic reindeer. I don’t know about you, but I’d love to see this photo every year!

In October I offered a “mini session” marathon day. The sessions were shorter and all took place in one day (it was a long day!). The day was a hit and I’ll be doing something similar next year, if not this spring.  First up, baby J … no stranger to this blog!

Check out Baby girl M’s cute one year old portraits. Sophie the giraffe has always had a big presence in the studio. This toy giraffe has saved my butt on more than one occasion. Well, Baby M had her own Sophie at the shoot. At one point she was wielding TWO Sophies and loving every second of it!  We ended the session with some fun-with-balloons time (she loved them). Enjoy!

Something about the photo on the right says, “Blue Steel!” Could we have a male model on our hands?

Babies can have their moments. After all, they’re babies. They’re growing, they’re teething, they can’t tell us they’re hungry, tired or have a full diaper.  Being called a baby is not an insult to a middle schooler for no reason. Babies can be unpredictable … happy one second, cranky the next.  This is totally normal, I’ve seen it all.  It’s my job to be able to capture moments in the middle of the chaos.  Baby W was not feeling it on this particular day.  I can’t blame him. I try to put myself in my clients (teeny tiny) shoes, “would I be psyched to be here right now while I feel like this”!?  We still managed to get some really, in my opinion, A-dorable smiley shots!  I got to see Wes again last week for a Christmas themed session and I am in love with this child. Happy, cranky – he’s amazing to photograph and I feel lucky to have him as a year long subject!

Now for the photos … Baby L was a month old when she came through the doors of Crabapple Photography studios. Although technically not a newborn (newborn sessions are taken within about 10 days of life), she did pass out for us at the end of the session so we could do a little bit of the newborn curl poses. Nothing beats a cutie in a pink tutu!