Four kinds of session, all at the studio in Ashton in Makerfield, all unhurried.
Best done inside the first fortnight, while they still curl the way they did before they arrived. After that they straighten out and the pictures are different ones entirely, still lovely, just not those.
Which is why these get booked while you are still pregnant. The session works around the baby: feeding, changing and settling are part of the time, not an interruption to it.
A cake, a one year old, and no attempt whatsoever to keep either of them clean. Set up at the studio, photographed properly, and cleared away by somebody who is not you.
It happens once. It is worth doing somewhere with the lights already right rather than on a kitchen floor at half four on a Tuesday.
The stages that feel permanent while you are in them.
Around six to nine months, once they can hold themselves up and before they can crawl away from the camera.
Standing, walking, first shoes. Booked as and when something changes rather than to a schedule.
Everyone in one frame, including whoever normally ends up taking the photograph and is therefore in none of them.
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Two or three from each type would let a parent see exactly what they are booking before they ask what it costs.