Why you should consider an in home family photo session:
Family and Newborn Photographer: Newport Rhode island
My top 3 reasons to have an in home family session, regardless of where you live!
#1 Your home will be nostalgic for your children when they are grown.
Think back to your childhood home? Do you remember the couch where you used to snuggle and read on a chilly, rainy day? Do you remember the kitchen where your parent would prep food, or where you would wander as a teen looking for a snack? As an adult I’m sure you can think back to a home you lived in growing up and remember it fondly. Now think back to the family photos you have from when you were a child (If you’re like me they’re somewhere in a shoe box, probably begging to be brought out into the light!) does seeing that home bring you right back to those memories?
Taking family photos in your own home will give you those memories to pass down to your children. In home family photos will spark memories for your kids as they grow.
If you’re part of a community that moves a lot, like my family is, in home photos give our children a grounding sense of history. Our children have moved around a LOT. They might have lived in more homes than they are years old at this point. Taking family photos at home gives them tangible memories of this location and time in your family.
2. Your home doesn’t have to be magazine worthy to be worthy of family photos.
Did you catch that? The ‘perfect’ family home isn’t a reality! Maybe your home is like mine, it’s temporary. And knowing that it’s temporary means it is not the “dream home”. There are many things about this house that I would say I don’t particularly like… how about you? Do you love your home? If so YAY!! That’s incredible, and you should absolutely consider taking allll the family photos there. You have no reason not to!
But for the rest of us who don’t love our homes - how do we create beautiful photos in spaces we don’t love? The key is one good window. That’s it. Seriously. You may not have the most gorgeous kitchen straight out of an influencer’s instagram highlight reel (I don’t either), but you may have a really special recipe for banana bread passed down from your grandmother, and two little boys who love to bake, and a kitchen window with just enough soft light.
You may have an incredible bay window in your living room, and we might have to move your favorite chair to catch the light, but you’ll have photos in your chair where you read to your children every night before bed. Where you snuggle and watch your favorite movies, and long after the chair is gone, or you can’t fit you + your children in at the same time, you’ll have beautiful memories to look back on and remember.
You may have a corner next to the slider door in your dining room that gets just the right moody light on a dreary day. We can sit in that corner for a while, just talking and snuggling, and capturing the unhurried, beautiful relationship between you and your young children. Giving them the freedom to come and go, snuggle, laugh, be silly and be themselves.
Sentimental moments are one of the joys of in home sessions!
3. In home family or motherhood sessions focus even more on connection.
Your home is the perfect place to highlight the connection between you and your children. They’re the most comfortable in their own space, and you can focus on snuggling with them. Leaning in and breathing in their little kid scent, or curling up with a favorite blanket and pulling out their favorite book. As your photographer I’ll gently guide you if you need it, but with in home session I tend to pull back a bit and let the moments unfold more naturally. These are the photos that will transport you directly back to mothering in your early years. The photos you’ll print and keep around your home, where your kids will say “remember when I was little enough to fit in your lap like that mom?!” or “remember that cozy spot on the couch where we would read together on rainy afternoons?” or “remember when you’d let me climb up on the counter to mash bananas for our favorite banana bread?”
