Life in the Light Photography by Emily Johnson

Listening to the Lord

A good friend from when we lived in DC emailed me when we had our first baby and said, “There’s nothing as sweet as holding your new baby and listening to the Lord.” I’ve been listening a lot these past few days. God has blessed us with a baby boy!

He was born last Wednesday at 7:18 pm. We’ve been loving on him ever since! There will be many more pictures to come, I’m sure, but I’m only going to take the time to post one for now. I’ve got to go back to listening

Super smiley

I actually did this shoot awhile ago…back when this baby belly still let me get down to eye level with a crawling 9-month-old without getting stuck on the ground. It was such a fun shoot because she was so super smiley! We had fun running around Loose Park trying to stay kinda cool, and we even let this little sweetie enjoy the swings for awhile! Swing shots are hard, and I was so excited with this one…it might be my favorite swing shot ever!

Family of 14 feet

I LOVE this family of 7! They are good friends of mine from church, and I had fun making their portraits! As much as I love taking pictures of babies and toddlers, it’s nice to have people who take direction . All these kids are such good kids…I hope mine turn out so well. I have a bunch of favorites from this shoot, but we’ll start with a foot picture. People have started telling me that “I know you like feet” or “well, since you like feet so much”… I never really thought about it before, but I guess I do! Feet tell such a story, I think.

Princess in Pig Tails

You are going to fall in love with this little girl. She has the cutest little features and her personality matches it perfectly! I’m not surprised since her mommy is one of the most beautiful people I know both inside and out. We’ve been great friends since high school, and I was so excited to capture some portraits of her family while we played and played and played and played. I took WAY too many pictures, but I couldn’t help myself! So without further ado, I now invite you to fall in love with this little sweetheart…

8 days new

I’m in a newborn mood! (Convenient that I’ll be having one soon, huh?) This sweet-as-can-be baby was the most wide awake yet completely content and happy 8-day-old newborn I’ve ever seen! I’m not surprised because his big brother was oozing sweetness through his VERY shy facade. We just got cute picture after cute picture of this little guy while we waited for him to zonk out. I had such a hard time narrowing the pictures down to post, that’s why you’ll see a bunch. This first one cracks me up! You think he didn’t want me to take his picture?! I love it when babies make this face.

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