Ava’s First Year | Pittsburgh Baby Photographer | Baby Plan Graduate

Happy birthday to Ava Grace, who turned 1 in June!  Here is a slideshow of some of my favorite moments from her first year:

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Here are a few images from Ava’s 1st birthday session:

baby girl first year photo shoot pittsburgh

Here are Ava’s other portrait sessions:

Thank you for letting me work with your baby girl this entire year, it’s been wonderful!  🙂

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Are you looking for a maternity, newborn, family, or baby photographer in Pittsburgh?  Powder Blue Photography offers in-home and studio portraits of newborn babies and maternity and on location family portraits in and around Pittsburgh, including the South Hills, McMurray, Peters Township, Canonsburg, Bridgeville, Upper St. Clair, South Fayette, Mt. Lebanon, Cecil Township, Squirrel Hill, Regent Square, and Shadyside areas.  Please contact Missy to schedule a maternity appointment and a tentative date for your newborn session.  Maternity sessions take place around 33-36 weeks, and newborn sessions take place in the first 10 days of life.  Family sessions take place anytime!

Pittsburgh Outdoor Family Photographer | Pratt Family | Happy 1st birthday Reeve!

What a charming smile on this little 1-yr-old man who just celebrated his first birthday!

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(C) 2014 Powder Blue Photography. www.powderbluephoto.com

Mom specifically requested a shot capturing details since her little baby is growing up ay too fast and she wants to remember all the special things about his babyhood.

(C) 2014 Powder Blue Photography. www.powderbluephoto.com(C) 2014 Powder Blue Photography. www.powderbluephoto.com

It was such a great pleasure meeting the Pratt family and getting to know them a little bit.  I’m crossing my fingers that they move over to Mt. Lebanon someday!

Even despite our recent stressful car accident woes (negligent driver texting crossed center line and hit us head-on right here in our Mt. Lebo neighborhood–we all survived, thank goodness!!), I had a huge smile on my face editing this session because how can you feel anything but joy with this kiddo’s expressions?

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Are you looking for a family photographer in Pittsburgh?  Powder Blue Photography offers on location family portraits in and around Pittsburgh, including the South Hills, McMurray, Peters Township, Canonsburg, Bridgeville, Upper St. Clair, South Fayette, Mt. Lebanon, Cecil Township, Squirrel Hill, Regent Square, and Shadyside areas.  Please contact Missy to schedule a session.

Pittsburgh Maternity Photographer | Josh & Vanessa | Gender Reveal Portrait & Golden Hour Maternity

These two live in Mt. Lebanon and are expecting their first baby, a little boy, in June.  We did a “gender reveal” session a few months ago when Vanessa was barely showing:

gender reveal portrait session pittsburgh it's a boy

Then we did their maternity session when Vanessa was closer to 7 months.  Golden hour maternity portraits are one of my absolute favorite types of sessions!  I would love to do portraits around this time of day with families, but currently sunset is after 8 pm and it gets even later toward the solstice in June–not usually the best time of day for the little ones, but so pretty out!!

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Such a beautiful silhouette–love this location!  Vanessa’s hair is so gorgeous because she is a stylist in Downtown Pittsburgh.

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These guys are a lot of fun to work with and I am super excited about there newborn session next month.  I got a peek at the nursery and it’s on its way to being so adorable!

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Are you looking for a maternity, newborn, family, or baby photographer in the Pittsburgh South Hills?  Powder Blue Photography offers in-home and in-studio portraits of newborn babies and maternity we well as family portraits in and around the Pittsburgh South Hills, McMurray, Peters Township, Canonsburg, Bridgeville, Upper St. Clair, and Mt. Lebanon areas.  Please contact Missy to schedule a maternity appointment and a tentative date for your newborn session.  Maternity sessions take place around 33-36 weeks, and newborn sessions take place in the first 10 days of life.  Family sessions take place anytime!