Almost every day, I drive past my friend Tiffany’s grandma’s house…and every spring, or at least for the past two springs (we’ve only been in Morgantown that long), I gaze at her grandma’s front yard when I drive by. She has a beautiful magnolia tree that creates a pool of pretty on the ground with its fallen petals. I envision what it might look like to place a young child or an engaged couple in front of the tree and I fill with great desire when I think about the portrait possibilities. This year, my desire got the good of me and I decided to finally try to make it happen!

Since it’s Tiffany’s grandma’s house, it was only appropriate to ask she and new daughter Harper to be my models. I even dressed Ally in hopes of grabbing a few spring portraits of her, but Ally was more concerned with playing with Harper’s stuffed dog…typical. Anyways, we grabbed some beautiful new portraits of five-month old Harper and I was so happy to finally be able to photograph in that pool of pretty fallen magnolia petals. Thanks for humoring me, Tiff! Harper is quite the gorgeous little girl. 🙂

Ally plopped down right next to Harper as soon as we set her in place. I knew it might take a little work to get her out of the pictures, but not without a little Harper “petting” first…:)

Check out that smile! Harper was ready for photo-taking action right from the start! And so was that pool of pretty! Don’t ya see why I was yearning to photograph in this front yard!?!

Here’s the session favorite right here! Harper is such a beautiful little baby girl. 🙂

And Ally came back. 🙂 But that’s OK, because she loves Harper and gave us this little snuggly portrait…

And now for Ally and Harper’s stuffed dog…

It pays off to go after a good photo location, doesn’t it. 🙂 Thanks again, Tiffany and Harper!