Pure Sugar/Asheville Child and Family Photographer

This afternoon I did this session at my favorite location.  I loved working with this family.  It seems like lately I have been doing pictures of just kids so it was really nice to get to work with a whole family again.  And not sure why, but man, I was so nervous!!  Wish I could get over that before sessions, but it seems to be part of the job for me.  Maybe it’s just pressure to make sure I do everything perfectly.  But once I got there and saw this family, the butterflies completely disappeared and it was fun from them on.  I really loved these little girls.  The oldest really reminded me of my Mya.  She was so excited and just wanted to explore everything just like Mya.  She was so much fun to talk to.  At one point she held my hand and just maybe my eyes teared up a little, just maybe.  😉  She asked if I could come back there to have a picnic with them.  So, so sweet.  But the sweetest part of the whole session where I really had to hold it together was when she said that she wanted to marry her daddy.  Gulp.  Hold it back, Brandy, hold it back.  lol  And their youngest, oh my gosh! She was the cutest little doll!  I loved her red hair so much.    Thank you guys for such a great afternoon.  Hope you get to make it back there sometime soon for that picnic!  🙂

Half Sessions!/Asheville Family Photographer

I have been thinking and thinking about doing half sessions for a while.  It’s something that I’ve never done but I’ve noticed that many people prefer mini-sessions over a full session.  Maybe it’s the cost involved or the fact that they just don’t want so many photos.  Either way, I think I’m going to give this a go!  Here is what a half session will look like:

*The sitting fee will be cut in half:  $70 rather than $140.  Newborn sessions will be $90 rather than $180.

*The session itself will last for about an hour rather than 2.  (Newborn sessions will be closer to 2-3 hours.)

*The number of color photos in your gallery will be around 12 (10 for newborn) rather than 25 (18-20 for newborns).  There will still be the black and white and vintage options as well in your gallery!  Print prices will remain the same.  Please see “Contact and Pricing” for print prices.

*As always, these sessions can include as many people as you would like (your immediate family).

If you are interested in a half or full session, please email me at brandy@brandylewisphotography com!  These sessions can be given as gifts!

Just Smashing!/Asheville Birthday Photographer

I love doing cake smash pictures!  It’s even better if the baby hasn’t had much sweet stuff.  It’s fun to watch their reaction.  I just can’t believe that this sweet little girl is turning one!  I could swear I just did her newborn pictures!!  She has gotten more and more beautiful.  I’m a girly girl so I love that her momma loves girly things for their pictures.  🙂  Happy birthday sweet thing!  Now you’re even sweeter after that  cake!

Happy 4th Birthday!/Asheville Child and Birthday Photographer

Next weekend Mya will be turning 4!  I love this age.  I really do.  And I can say that with an honest face because this girl has been a tough little firecracker!  She has gotten so much easier and I can’t be happier!  I blame that on many things:  occupational therapy that she started in December, a HUGE change in diet, and maturity.  She is now the sweetest little thing and I love her more than life itself!  She was so very excited about these pictures.  I think she was more excited about these than she is her actual birthday!  I’ve been getting stuff ready for these pictures for a few weeks and she just loved seeing everything come together.  She kept asking if this bear or that bear could come to her tea party.  😉  I decided to do this tea party setting with her bears because if you know Mya, you know that she LOVES having tea in the afternoons and has for a long time.  I blame it on her English roots.  I love sitting on the back porch with her and drinking tea after her “nap”.  Yeah, I said, “Nap” because I am in major denial that that nap is gone!  For the past week, she hasn’t slept and I’m very upset about this.  Her nap time is my work time!  So looks like I might be working some late nights now.  zzzz  But back on track!  I wanted to put Mya’s bears in the pictures because her bears are her buddies.  Papa Bear, she will tell you, is her best friend!  He is like a member of our family.  He got left one day at the mall and a friend of mine, knowing exactly how important he is to us, raced over there and rescued him.  I actually cried thanking her because I knew that if we didn’t get him back, our lives would not be the same and because Mya was so heartbroken when she discovered his disappearance.  I had so much fun putting this session together for my girl.  Happy 4th birthday to the smartest, most beautiful, sweetest, quirkiest little girl I know:  my sweet pea!  I love you!

She had been asking if River was going to get to have a cupcake with her so I decided to let him crash the tea party.  These pictures make me laugh so hard.  He was SO funny!  When I was setting all of this up, he was very interested and tried his darndest to destroy everything!  He’s at that stage where he just wants to grab, tear, and throw everything down.  lol  Well, when he got to sit at the table, he just sat there and looked at me like, “What?  Really?  I get to actually touch this stuff now?!”  He didn’t know how to eat the cupcake and decided he didn’t like the icing on his fingers.  So he came up with a plan.  He dipped his tea cup into the icing and would lick the icing off.  He did this over and over.  Mya and I were laughing so hard at him!  He’s a funny boy.

No Rain!/Asheville Baby and Child Photographer

Today I made up some photos that we didn’t get to do because of rain.  It was the perfect day, with perfect light at the perfect location!  Sometimes while taking pictures, I have to try and contain myself because I really want to yell out, “Oh my gosh!  I love this light!!!”  😉  But I don’t.  I just act like my goofy self trying to get a smile out of the kids.  I always worry that someone is going to be walking by and see or hear how silly I’m acting.  lol  If you ever see me in action, just ignore me.  I get a little crazy but it’s all worth it for a smile!  Thank you guys for a perfect evening.  I’m in love with your photos!

I did newborn photos for this little man.  He has gotten HUGE!!  He is such a big, cuddly boy.  I just think he’s adorable!

But he wasn’t interested in me.  He was much more interested in the flowers.  He even tried to eat a few.  😉

These next two gave me a fright a few times.  They were not fans of any sort of bug, spider, or bee.  They screamed a few times so loudly that I almost had a heart attack.  😉  I told them that next time, we were going to be in the studio.  lol  They were so cute and so easy to get smiles out of!

And this is their new baby sister!