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sweet mr M was my first session back from having our second baby, and what a fun way to dust off my working shoes!  the most fun thing about mr M is that you never know what you’re gonna get, and that day i got… a monkey.  glued to a tree.  who didn’t want to do anything else.    once we got our monkey noises out of the way and pried him off the birch, he was all set for adventure time!!  (and would you just look at those happy eyes!?  this kid smiles with his whole face– 100% contagious!)

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this incredible little mister has been my client since he was -2 months old, hanging out in his mama’s belly, and it has been so much fun getting to photograph him along the way!

unfortunately, mr I’s one-year-old session was his last in baltimore since the C family uprooted for friendly folks, down-home-cookin’ , and a gentler way of life shortly thereafter.  of course i’m going to miss one of my favorite families to photograph, but heading South is something i understand with just about every fiber of my being   so three cheers for SC  and the hope that we get to work together again someday in sweet Dixie!

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the saying goes “good fences make good neighbors,” but in my experience i say forget the fences, good neighbors make good neighbors.

this rang especially true in our last home downtown, where we were blessed to have the P family move into the row home next to ours.  we had a few other good neighbors on the block, but none that were more helpful than the awesome P fam…  in fact, they may have rescued me on a few too many occasions when i was home alone with the kids… there was the time my 2.5-year-old locked the two of us out on the second story deck- with our 6-month-old alone inside,  the several times i couldn’t figure out how to open our garage door during power outages (for real, why are those things so complicated?), the spare floor boards they gave us for replacement so we didn’t have to buy a whole box, and the many times i had to run over with a jar of whatever that i couldn’t get open by myself.  i’m not sure i ever rescued them in the way they did us– they’re on top of things like that– but i have absolutely loved getting to know them and getting to photograph beautiful miss L along the way.

this was miss L’s 6-month session (there is a 1-year session somewhere in my list of to-blogs), but i couldn’t be more excited to do miss L’s next session as a BIG SISTER soon!

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in the spirit of good friends, i thought i’d do a little throwback to miss a’s newborn shoot.   sweet miss a’s mama was a very close friend of mine in middle and high school.  we went our separate ways to college (she to VA, i to SC).  when her parents moved away from our hometown and she landed one of those crazy ‘who-would-have-ever-thought’ type jobs in DC, i figured our time of living nearby was over.  wrong!

as our crazy adventure in medicine rolled on, jeff and i made our way from SC to WV to baltimore, and miss a’s mama and i found ourselves pregnant at the same time with only 60ish miles between us. in fact, miss a was my last photo session before having our own little mister!   there’s just something about finding your way back to an old friend at a time when one is a few days postpartum and the other is shrek-style-mega-pregnant.  it’s almost comical really… one of those ‘look at us now’/'what have we done’ sort of moments.  in the end, we’ve seen each other at our worst and our best, and that’s one of those things time just never takes away.

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i owe much of my photography business to two people.  the first being my in-laws for giving me my first hand-me-down dslr in 2009, and the second being this lady.  B is solely responsible for pushing me into starting up this crazy little thing i’ve got going here, and i couldn’t possibly be more grateful.  she believed in my photography looooooooong before i ever did, and somehow managed to set up my first gig before i had even considered this dream could be a reality.   anyone that knows me well can tell you that i am extremely cautious about change.  that doesn’t mean that i don’t like it, but i try to over-prepare and consider every outcome before i’m willing to jump off the ledge.  (i know, over-prepare for the unknown?  i sound like a crazy person.)  B is the total opposite– she sees a great idea and goes for it with wild abandon…   i love and admire that about her.

so yeah.  here is B and her awesome family from our 2011 holiday session.  couldn’t be happier to call these fiiiiine folks our friends

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one thing i realized in december 2011 as soon as i saw sweet newborn A:  ” this kid inside my belly is probably about the same size as this kid i’m about to photograph!”

and judging by the size of my little chunker when he was born, i’m pretty sure i was right!

miss a was such a pleasure to photograph– maneuvering around my then-enormous belly was no easy task, but she certainly made it easier.  she had the sweetest disposition and squishy little lips!

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miss L was so sweet and smiley on that perfectly crisp (ok. cold.) fall morning…. in 2011.   are you seeing the throwback theme yet?  because it’s going to continue for a good while as i play catch up.  something about two kids throws even the most organized person in to a spiral of procrastination…. or survival.

yeah, survival. 

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along with a new year, we have some new things rolling out for awmullins photography.  first, i will only be taking repeat clients for the remainder of 2013 as i spend some time with my wee ones and focus on my craft.   (that’s the fancy way of saying that i’m hunkering down for some workshops and playing around with personal photography projects… and breathing).  also, you’ll notice some branding changes coming up in the next few months– and a good gallery overhaul.  let’s just pause for a moment of silence on that one since everything in those galleries is from 2010/early 2011.  it’s time, folks.  it’s time.

so to celebrate the dawn of a manageable work/child rearing schedule, here’s a throwback to a project i did with the fabulous Lauren Richie!   Lauren is a graphic designer who trekked down from NYC for a fun shoot to be used for some personal branding.   i had the BEST time– and even almost fell on her from a step ladder… 9 months pregnant.  you should have seen the fear in her eyes with that one   (being crushed by a falling orca isn’t your typical day-to-day risk, so we’ll give her that substantiated fear).  though working for another company at the time, she is currently an incredible designer working for bath & body works– so cheers to them, because who wouldn‘t want to work with this fun of a chick!?

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.. and last year’s sweetest little turkey!

first things first, check out all that awesome hair on sweet miss a!   her parents certainly had a lot to be thankful for, and thankful they were.     miss a had a hard time settling down for a while, as most babies do (i mean, hey, who’s this crazy lady, what’s with the camera in my face, and WHY am i naked?!)…  but she found a nice little bowl to call home for a while and snuggled right in!!

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mr j was one of my so so sweet newborns who came back for a 6-month family session last fall (yes… last fall.  i just… ugh… yeah.  i swear i’m going to catch up one of these days… as soooooon as i get one certain little lady potty trained.. right?  right?)

anyway, mr j is such a fun little guy and i had a great time getting to see him at each step along the way– in his mama’s belly, just a few days old, and smiling, giggling, and coming into his own awesome little personality!   i just love how he plays around with his mommy- wide mouth cheek kisses, neck snuggles, and huge belly laughs.  that’s the stuff little life is made of.  that’s the stuff  to remember…  and, hopefully, looking at these will bring the B family right back to the way his skin felt, his unexpected excitement, and the way his face lit up when they walked in the room.    (man i love this age)

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