The Today Show had Nebraska photographer Tracy Raver explaining her techniques for capturing these beautiful shots.
Spotlight: Tracy Raver Photography
What do you think? Newborns do sleep pretty soundly so we're wondering why we didn't think of this? A few adjustments- throw in a cute hat for a prop and voila- you've got a beautiful keepsake of those first few weeks. I think we were just so happy she was sleeping, we didn't dare do anything to jeopardize that.
You can see the Today Show video and more inspiring photos here and visit Tracy's website here.
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Oh my these are the sweetest thing ever.
view robinm's profile
hilarious and amazing... and cute.
view eklezia's profile
Oh my goodness, sooooo cute. And yet tasteful, not overdone--but so, soooo cute. It makes me wish I could turn back time to get a pic of my daughter like this!
view hyzen's profile
creepy
view Archie's profile
I find them really creepy too.
view HPez's profile
I love the first picture, it's adorable
view boxerchick's profile
Babies are beautiful as they are. Why add props and pose them?
view pennycarnival's profile
How are these remotely creepy? They are just pictures of sleeping babies and some are wearing hats. Does that make all sleeping baby pictures creepy too?
I think they are adorable.
view Megan in AZ's profile
I really like the first two, but I love babies, so maybe that makes me biased :)
view Lizzykewl's profile
I think they're beautiful. I love the ones with the natural looking fibers and the cocoons around the babes.
view honeyhaze's profile
remembering how little sleep i got with the first one, not to mention not being able to get around those first few weeks. this would be a great time for dad to take the baby to the shoot and let momma get some much needed rest. what a great gift for the mother!
view jackied302's profile
Love the two snuggle babies are smiling!
view stt64's profile
we had pics of the boys taken when they were about 4 weeks old (not even to their due date yet) and they're so sweet and squishy and tiny. i wish we'd though of hats, though. love those!
view pyjammy's profile
kind of creepy to contort the babies into these somewhat unnatural poses
view cysf's profile
one of the masters of newborn photography is carrie sandoval. we were lucky enough to have her photograph our baby boy at 11 days old. i highly recommend this experience!
http://www.capturedbycarrie.com
view crdesign's profile
Creepy? It's creepy that you would use that word.
Contort? Have you held a newborn?
Those pictures are beautiful and each one made me smile and giggle. Beautiful.
view 2kidsandus's profile
We tried from day one to get sleeping pictures of our daughter, and everytime we'd get started, she would wake
up and stay awake the whole time. :( She just knew that photographer was there and did not want to take pictures!
view staceylc's profile
These are magnificent and beautiful.
Neither creepy nor contorted...as babies are so flexible it could be very well that once laid down, they "contorted" themselves into this position.
This is genius and it is such a wonderful gift to give to the parents of a newborn!
view klynnmorton's profile
Agree with Jackied. Between recovering from the delivery and not getting any sleep was a good reason why I didn't get too many newborn pics. It is a good project for the dad or a relative or friend to do. Take the kid to the photographer/or do it themselves and let the mom get some sleep!
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