when i get to put together amazing storyboards like THIS i remember how much i love what i do:

sullivan 1 year old now!

 okay, maybe a wink over 1 year old… but i’ve had fun meeting him when he was belly, newborn, baby, and now little boy!

sullivan and harrison = double trouble (watch out kelly- i can only imagine them in 10+ years!)

i very much *love* the image on the right.

the men in kelly’s life. she’s a lucky gal.

feels like we’re on holiday. (’cause it sounds so much hipper than vacation)

kelly- this one is probably my favorite for the year! it needs to be added to the wall!

sullivan couldn’t have been more thrilled.

sullivan (1 year) - kelly - lance - harrison 

galveston, texas

1 year  photo series

related links:

sullivan (1 year) - kelly - lance - harrison

baby sullivan 

kelly + belly 

proud to introduce to the world:

baby madison thida

born: december 28, 2009

7 lb. 8oz.

daughter to the amazing-  jessica + chantha

isn’t she PRECIOUS/ SWEET/ ADORABLE?!

mama and her princess.

sleep panda baby, sleep.

 sweet baby eyelashes.

i love this.

i

 and i {heart}  her.

 i’d like to think i’m the swaddling champ. (where do i claim my prize?)

this was the MOST adorable moment to witness. sleepy baby madison woke up and immediately smiled at her daddy.

 ninja baby WIN.

oh little madison. most of you know i like to shoot these little newborns within those first 2 weeks of their birth date.  reasons? newborns are sleepy, more pliable, and well… more sleepy in those first two weeks. however, little miss madison, as sweet as she is decided she liked her cozy nicu for the first couple months! so, i sat and waited patiently for jessica’s email that her baby was FINALLY home. bless you jessica- you are a TROOPER mom who wins a trophy in my book!  needless to say, we were able to get this little girl to sleep. i love fun blankets to swaddle babies in– so this little panda blanket was no exception.  MUST. SWADDLE. PANDA BEARS. once we had her settled tightly in her adorable panda blanket– she fell asleep sweetly on her own.

not the last you’ll see if this precious family. stay tuned this year for more!

check out new parents jessica and chantha back when they were on the blog as parents to be:

CLICK HERE for their maternity session!

 little miss lauren was one of the first little girls i photographed in houston a few years ago.

lauren was 18 months old back when I first saw her, and now she’s an adorable 3 year old!

AND- little miss lauren is a BIG sister to little brother luke.

HOW SWEET!

little mr. luke was a sweet 2 weeks old.

total milk coma.

i’m holding my reign as: mrs. *most* kids like me. these two seemed to approve.

lauren and luke

houston texas// family session - newborn session

little lauren was one of the first kiddos i got to shoot here in houston only a few years ago during a babywearing session. i’d like to say she was one of the first posts on my old old old blog. her eye’s are still super bright blue and she’s just an adorable big sister. little luke kept me on my toes at first, but then settled into some amazing newborn sleep and i got to click away. gotta love a session with incredibly cute kids!

yes. evan is as precious as he looks!

sleeps all day - up all night.

 and he pretty much did as he was told. (daddy too).

sweet little family.

i love this. i remember spending HOURS just looking at my babies. HOURS.

evan. you win the trophy for BEST.NEWBORN.SESSION.

newborn session - houston, tx

newborn evan, liz, and taylor were awesome. liz contacted me in early september to set up a newborn session for the end of october. who would have know just one week later she would have contacted me to tell me we had to push up her session because little evan decided to be born 6 weeks early! little evan was born sept. 6th at 4 pds 13 ounces and by the time i got to photograph him he was weighing in at 5 pds! i usually will only photograph newborns 2 weeks and newer, however at 3 weeks old little evan was so tiny, pliable, and still soooo sleepy. he seriously was a dream newborn to work with. not to mention liz and taylor are amazing parents!

 not going to lie- flaky baby skin is my favorite thing about newborn sessions!

sweet sleepy sullivan.

big brother harrison — deciding.

 you may recognize this scarf from HERE.

and HERE.

kelly, and the new man in her life.

 league city, tx - newborn session

 Just recently I got to post the an amazing maternity session with kelly.  i anxiously awaited the news of baby sullivan’s arrival and was so excited to meet the little man behind the belly. what a sweet baby- all he did was sleep. (so dear kelly, i hope he is still a great little sleeper!)

i’ll get to see this little guy, along with his brother harrison in just a few months and eagerly wait to see how much they grow!

It’s that time of year. Decisions to make, frames to purchase….

PLEASE- All print orders for Holiday gifts need to be placed (and payed for) no later than midnight November 19th.

The *only* clients this does not apply to are any of my November sessions. (You will have a separate deadline given to you when you receive your online gallery.)

All order are accepted at anytime afterwards, but anything after November 19th will not be guaranteed for Holiday Delivery and will most likely be delivered early 2009.

Gift Cards for Sessions and Print Credit are available to purchase HERE . Deadline for Gift Credit is December 10th. The certificate can either be gift packaged by me and sent to the lucky recipient, or can be sent to you for delivery.

Please contact me at 411@rebeccalinhrodgers.com if you have any questions.

If your online gallery has expired, please contact me and I will reactivate it.

THANK YOU!

And what is a blog post without a photo…

This is where I spend most of my days:

With the exception of my end of the year weddings, I have decided not to shoot in December. (The *only* exception will be for newborns 2 weeks and under)

I’d like to spend the least amount of time here in December. Please let that happen. Deadline on time. My girlies will thank you.

It’s a week shy of my website anniversary and I am so pleased to announce the relaunch of my website!

Going into redoing my site I had NO idea how much time it would take. Thank you to my dear logo designer Taz, who created my new logo (lovin’ the new colors!) and that cute little r-lr mark you see. The new branding really suits me and I am SO excited to put all her designs to use! Branding really is the tie that binds.

You also may notice the volume control to the right of the photo. Yes folks- I’ve added music! I know this is totally not a new concept, but if you know me you may know that I had huge dislike for music on websites. Really, only for the sake that other’s people music piped in from websites made random, nerve-jerking, remixes when clashed with/over my itunes. After much thought though, I’m over it and it makes me happy to tap my toes while looking at my images. (I also LOVE the chosen songs!) It was awesome to revisit my images from this last year, I can’t believe I had not updated my photos since last January! I’ll NEVER wait that long to update. This relaunch has been planned for months- and taken weeks to execute.

So, if you have met me over the last 8 months– you may see some familiar faces sprinkled throughout the site.

Please go check out my relaunched website:

——->rebeccalinhrodgers.com <——-

And there is more: Still to come this fall will be my gallery just devoted to wedding images. I am really excited to launch this after a year of collecting fun, fresh, and real life wedding images. Also a few bits and pieces of the blog to be changed. Stay tuned!

What an exciting first year to have. I can only imagine what will happen this next coming year. Thanks you clients, friends, family, and fellow photographers. for making this what it is. I’m in la-la-land and you have made it possible for me to be here. I am forever grateful!

xoxo, r-lr

Now, a family of 4

Baby Taison ~ a little more alert this round.

aaaaadorable!!!

Favorite:

Their house is full of books… I happen to notice the “Photo Manifesto” on the bottom left.

The men of the house:

Big Sis Trinhity - she is soooo cute!

another favorite:

I’ve read the this same book to my daughter a million times… this is why dads are so cool . I have never, ever, once stuck my hand through the front!

Little Taison was a lucky man and scored two photo sessions! When photographing him at 3 days old, it was a wee bit difficult to get a whole family shot so I came back a week later to see what we could do. Taison was up~ and big sis Trinhity was busy doing/eating… “other things” However we were able to score a few extra great photos so I wanted to share.

And Brian- I know how much you love me emasculating you…. but when you wear socks like this….

you make it pretty easy! HA!! You are such a good sport!