Family Photography by Natarsha March: Savannah - Brisbane Family Photographer

This session was a long time in the making - I first met this family back when Savannah was still growing in her mums tummy. I loved this maternity session and I had hoped to meet the little one after she was born.

Well, as happens, life moves so quickly and it was 18 months before I heard from this family again, but gosh what a treat to meet little Savannah - she was full of personality!

She waved at me as soon as they got out of the car, then went a bit shy when we got closer to say hello, then was happy for a little cuddle with me and we got on well after that.

I first met this family back when Savannah was growing in her mums tummy. It was one of my favourite maternity shoots that year and I loved the images so much that one of them was on my marketing materials for quite some time.

So it was super exciting for me to see them all again and to meet Savannah 18 months later.

We always start with family photos when little ones are a bit unsure. It helps them to be relaxed when there is some lady bouncing around making noises to look at her with a big black camera in front of her face.

She got used to the camera very quickly though once she saw her photos on the back of the screen, she was very excited and was clapping her hands and pointing to herself, her mum and her dad with a big smile on her face.

It wasn't long before Savannah had totally relaxed and was loving all the attention. We captured some beautiful images of the whole family together as well as some special moments with each of her parents.

We moved spots to a grassy background with tiny blue flowers in it and although Savannah wasn't keen on laying on her tummy we were able to capture a few fleeting moments of her before she jumped up and ran back to mum or dad for another cuddle.

By the time the sun had dropped low we had the bubbles out to bring on the last few smiles of the day. She was contently smiling and pointing with two crossed fingers at the bubbles as they floated by, saying "bubbas!!" and then another family strolled past with a pram and she pointed with her two crossed fingers and said "bubba!" and I thought she was very clever to make one word work twice for her like that!

It really was a most gorgeous afternoon at the park together and I know these photos will be something Savannah holds on to for the rest of her life as a keepsake of such a special time with her parents.