My little sister, Lacey, is very pregnant with her second. I honestly believe that pregnant women are beautiful and my little sis is…well, she is amazingly beautiful. For all the hard times I have given her (she is only two years younger than I, and I was the consummate aggravating older brother!), she turned out all right. I am so proud of the woman she has become. Her husband, my brother-from-another-mother, Danny is a great guy and together they have an enviable relationship. They live out in the country and have a precious little daughter who is a few months older than my youngest, Jillian. She is two and her name is Lily Mae.

Sneaky, sneaky! Anyway, we only had a few minutes to do these photos on one day (the 4th of July) and about 10 minutes a couple days later…The reason for the sneakiness is we are surprising my brother-in-law with the photos. We had to be very quick, we literally just shot the pics and ran back inside in a span of about 10 minutes. They were shot at my folk’s 400 acre farm.

Oh! And my sister is due in just a week or two.

Babies! They smell so good. Kind of like a fresh Spring rain with a mix of Johnson & Johnson liquid baby soap. They don’t crawl or run away from you or talk back. They love to be held and fed and changed and held and fed and held and they love to sleep during all of it! I wish I were a baby sometimes!

Before leaving for Seattle and the Antiworkshop (of which you will hear a lot about very soon), I had a great shoot with some dear friends and their first child, little Luke Taylor. He was named after his great-great grandpa…I love little babies. Did I mention that?

Luke was great to work with, already a natural at only 11 days old and he was teeny-tiny! Healthy, happy and wise is the little guy.

20×10 Storyboard Triptych

Smiles!!

Little Tiny Toes!

All tuckered out after playing with his elephant.

Looks like he has a huge tattoo on his chest…I am going to be redoing my watermark very soon.

This isn’t a great photo, but I just loved it.