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Oh just look at this heart-melting sweetness! We haven’t shared Mom & Dad’s maternity portraits, but we just had to get these newborn twin portraits on the blog! These little ones are pure magic! ✨ We’re over the moon to be a part of their first year! Every four months, we’ll be there to capture all of their subtle changes and milestones, from the maternity session to C & G’s first birthday! While we love all of our Griffin Photography newborns, there’s something special about getting to watch a family grow with our Baby Plan. Capturing all their milestones and the babies’ personalities developing and getting to watch Mom & Dad’s parenting and love grow that first year just makes us so grateful. 💗

If you’d like to join our Baby Plan and capture your little one’s first year to share with future generations, please reach out for more information! You can email us here – info@jbgriffinphotography.com or give us a text/call – 757-237-8195.

This family stayed at a beautiful beach house rental in Sandbridge so we did the portraits right at their house. It made it so easy for the family to get ready and walk out the back door. Despite the cooler temperatures at this particular extended family session, the beach’s natural beauty still provided a stunning backdrop for the photography session. And as you can see, this family didn’t let the chilly weather dampen their spirits! From the oldest cousin to the baby of the family, the kids were natural models.

One of the highlights of the session was getting to capture Baby R’s first time in the sand! I think it’s safe to say she is quite the little beach baby. 😆  Maybe one day we’ll get to see her reaction to the waves, but it was way too cold this time!

If you’d like to reserve a beach portrait session for your family, you can contact us here. If you’d like to see more family portraits, you can visit our family gallery here. 

Some of these big brothers and sisters have been adults or teenagers and some of them have been school aged children. Most of the time, these siblings are amazing! They are such good helpers and ecstatic about the arrival of a new baby in the family!  They follow directions perfectly and can hold the baby with such confidence.

The toughest age (and most common for us to capture) is those little toddlers, 14 months to 3 years. They really do run the show! 😆 How do we ensure that we almost always capture at least one adorable sibling portrait? We have been capturing siblings and family portraits for more than 15 years so we have lots of tricks up our sleeves.

First and foremost, we consider the time of day when your oldest is the happiest. If she usually naps at noon, we’re not going to schedule the session for 11. We have found that 9:30am tends to be a great start time for newborns and their big brother/sister.

At this age, we start the session off with family and sibling portraits. This way they are typically happy and curious. We give them just enough time to get comfortable with us, but not so much time that they’re bored and antsy.

As soon as you arrive, we ask big brother/sister who they brought with them and let them introduce us to their new baby. We show them our camera and lights and let them help us pick out a swaddle and/or headband for their baby sibling. If they’re still hesitant, we’ll even ask that they help us take a picture of their new baby. They LOVE to press the button and make the lights flash.

If none of our fun tricks work, we can take a break, focus on baby and then try again. And this would also be the point where we tell you not to hesitate breaking out the bribes! No judgement here, haha! Whatever it takes – fruit snacks, the promise of ice cream, a visit to the park, the ipad or all of the above!

If all goes as planned, the family and sibling portraits are complete in the first 30 minutes and Dad and big brother or sister are free to go on a special one on one outing to the park or out for lunch while we focus on the new baby. Of course, they’re welcome to stay and watch the entire session, if they’d like!

Ready to start planning a session with us?

Newborn Gallery

We spend much fewer evenings at the beach in the winter months, but it’s certainly not unheard of. If you’re set on maternity portraits, but you’re due in winter, we can usually make it work if your schedule is flexible. We’ll set a tentative date. Then we watch as the weather gets closer and adjust, if needed. Virginia Beach typically has some random warm days throughout winter, but either way, if you’re willing to brave the cold, so are we! Honestly, my favorite beach sessions are in late fall and early winter. The skies are almost always gorgeous and the lack of humidity is so welcomed.

If for whatever reason a beach session doesn’t work out, we always have the option for classic studio maternity portraits. You can view more maternity sessions at this link. 

It’s amazing to think that we’ve photographed more than 500 newborn babies throughout the past 15 years. Still, every single one of them feels just as special as the first. It truly touches our hearts that parents choose and trust us to capture this short moment of time of their baby’s life. It’s an incredible honor.

We’ve had many of our newborns come back with their new baby brothers/sisters. We’ve even had one of our newborn’s older sister come back with her own baby! We’ve captured twins, preemies, 8 week olds whose parents were told they were too old by other photographers, newborns with special needs, adopted newborns that were only in town a week so they could include biological mom in the session, newborns with step siblings, newborns with cousins, newborns with their furry siblings, newborns with family heirlooms and the list goes on. Many of our tiniest clients have moved from the Virginia, but it’s always a joy when they come back to visit. One huge bonus of living in a military and tourist town – many will come back for summer beach vacations and we get to capture their family portraits again! We’re just about at the point where we’ll be photographing some of our very first newborns’ senior class portraits soon! How cool will that be?! We’re looking forward to another amazing year of creating treasured art for the best clients in Virginia!

This sweet girl arrived nice and sleepy, thanks to her car ride from Suffolk. (While most of our maternity and newborn clients live in Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, we have clients from all over Hampton Roads, including Norfolk, Hampton, Newport News, Williamsburg and even Richmond, Elizabeth City and Moyock!) We worked quickly and captured some cozy sleepy baby portraits, just in time for her to wake up, show us her personality and let us capture some portraits with her eyes open.

Want to see more of our newborn baby portraits? You can visit our gallery here.