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Fresh Babies

The most magical time in our lives right? Creating and growing this tiny sees who joins the world and changes our lives in ways we never imagined even possible. Some little person who is you. This same person you can stare at for hours even when they are doing nothing. Their cries make you want to solve all of the world’s problems in one fell swoop. You’re going to watch them grow and learn and fail and succeed. You’ll be there for their highs and lows and everything in between. They will see and experience struggles in their lives and world like we have never seen. BUT…

They are pieces of you

Maybe it’s their eyes. Or their fingers. Perhaps it’s the way their ears are shaped. Did they inherit your patient temperament? Or maybe your partner’s temper (no names mentioned but you can check out the evidence on Monday’s here). Are they the magical combination of two that created something entirely new? Regardless though, of all the millions of combinations and ways they come out, they are just them. Exactly who they should be.

The craziest thing about these newest earth-side creatures is how they change, sometimes in just a day if you’re paying attention. You can put them to bed at night, swaddled up all cozy and warm. When they cry out to you in the morning and you walk into their nursery, you might think you have a changeling. Their scrawny and wrinkly newborn limbs fill out and become adorable chunky ankles and wrists. Those tiny bird like whimpers ultimately because heartbroken wails. Their hair grows. Their eyes change color. They start talking. And it all happened SO DANG FAST.

All of This

Is the very reason I started my photography journey. Once upon a time I was that fresh and admittedly clueless parent who had no idea that babies really don’t wear shoes when you leave the house because you will basically just lose them. They also do not need shoes indoors because you will basically just lose them. I didn’t know the car would make one kid fall fast asleep and the other scream like a banshee. As I photographed my own kids I could see little differences in their looks and mannerisms and how much bigger they got so fast.

I needed to bottle up all the newness and change and keep it forever lest I forget one single second. Our memory often tells us lies and changes our stories to fit our personal narrative…but a photograph can’t lie. At least not an honest photograph, a storytelling photograph. The kind where the doting grandparents pass off the fragile babe ever so carefully, or you catch the dad who is probably the most exhausted (and happy) he’s ever been in his whole life. These are the most beautiful moments.

Someday they’ll be grow up and probably curse you under their breath for making them be home by 11, and telling them beer and throwing rocks at trains is bad, and to stay away from the devil’s lettuce. And you’ll want to document all of the stages in between like here, and here and here too. Then you’ll always have photographs of the teeny tiny moments to make you remember how quiet, and sweet and snuggly they once were. Photographs cannot lie.

Expecting couple in the river at dusk
FAMILY SESSION $795
$150 due at booking
60-90 minutes of creating together
Full digital gallery of 100+ hand edited images
Unlimited calls and texts for planning and discovery
One location in and around Portland, OR. | In home or in the wild
Location planning | Styling assistance
Best light of the day is sunset, which changes throughout the year
*Add $100 for travel more than 50 miles from 98682

 

MATERNITY SESSION $795

$150 due at booking

60-90 minutes of creating together

Full digital gallery of 100+ hand edited images

Access to client wardrobe

Unlimited calls and texts for planning and discovery

One location in to around Portland, OR.

Location planning | Styling

Best scheduled around 30 weeks

*Add $100 for travel outside of 98682

NEWBORN SESSION $795

$150 due at booking

60-120 minutes of creating together (for feeding breaks)

Full digital gallery of 100+ hand edited images

Documentary style photos and posed photos (backdrops and bonnets provided by me)

Photos are best taken between 10-25 days, a rough guideline

Location planning | Styling

*Bundle Maternity and Newborn sessions and save $400

 

SIMPLE SESSION $495
$150 due at booking

40 minutes of creating magic together

Choose 40 images from a full digital gallery to keep, additional images may be purchased

Must be within 20 miles of 98682 (add travel fee for >20 miles)

Location planning | Styling

Choose 40 images from a full digital gallery to keep, additional images may be purchased

Unlimited calls and texts for planning and discovery

For those who need fewer photos

Perfect for extra wild children (My favorite kind)

MINI SESSION SUBSCRIPTION $895

$150 due at booking

Three mini sessions in a 12 month period

20 minute sessions

Each mini session yields 20 hand edited images

Must be within 20 miles of 98682

Perfect for first year milestones, birthdays, and tiny snippets of everyday life.

 

ELOPEMENTS | INTIMATE WEDDINGS

Packages start at $2995

Please contact me for full pricing options

*All deposits are non-refundable. Dates are negotiable.

Daily of three walking on the rocky riverfront
Family of four snuggling overlooking the Columbia River

Deb Morlan is a family and motherhood photographer serving the Portland, Oregon and beyond.