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Baby Ella – photography studio near Blaine

May 7, 2026

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Alex and Jake originally reached out to me when they were looking for a photography studio near Blaine and Lino Lakes with their first baby.  We did maternity, newborn and 1 year photos, and when Alex reached out to let me know they were expecting their second daughter, I was so excited for them!  I always love seeing clients come back year after year – watching these little ones grow is so fun.  When Addy was last in for her one year photos, she hardly had any hair.  Now at 3 years old she has a FULL head of curly hair and so much personality!  Big sis literally stole the show, as they often do.

Ella was just over 2 weeks old for her session.  She has some of the longest eyelashes I’ve ever seen on a newborn!  I could tell she wasn’t curled up tight in the womb, because she did not want her legs curled up when I swaddled her.  And you know what?  That’s 100% ok.  These sessions are all very baby-led, and if they don’t want to lay certain ways or aren’t very “curly” babies, we just go with the flow and still get cute photos.

Baby Ella was mainly happy when she was in mom and dad’s arms.  She slept enough between bottles that we were able to get some sleepy photos, but by that point big sis was over it and we had to make a game out of finding stickers on Ella to get her to be near her for photos.  This is how it goes with toddlers sometimes – it can be totally unpredictable whether or not they’ll want to be in the photos, but I always have patience and eventually we make it work.  These are actually some of my favorite newborn and toddler photos I’ve taken, and a lot of that is because you can just feel big sis’s personality coming through these photos.  I’m posting some favorites below.

  • Clothing for mom, dad and big sis was from my studio wardrobe collection.
  • Mom’s dress is one of my favorites from Show Me Your Mumu

 

collage of four photos with family of four with newborn baby and toddler daughter sitting on bench snuggled togetherblack and white backlit photo of mom kissing toddler daughter, who is hanging on to her neck while sitting in her lap

collage of four photos with curly haired toddler sister holding a newborn baby girl swaddled in white blanketcollage of newborn baby girl on white blanket with pink bow in hair.collage of family holding newborn baby girl on white blanket

curly haired toddler sister snuggling with newborn baby girl on white blanketnatural light newborn photos of baby girl on white blanket at Blaine photography studiofamily photos with toddler sister and newborn with family standing in natural light white photography studio in Blaine

 

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  1. julie says:

    You included big sister perfectly!

  2. Molly says:

    What a beautiful session and look how happy big sister is in all of these – amazing job!

  3. Renee says:

    Wow, these are beautiful and I love the mix of colour and black and white portraits!

  4. Erin says:

    What a beautiful session! I love the outfit choices!

  5. Aleah says:

    Wow, these are adorable! Especially the ones with big sister!

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