March 18, 2015

San Antonio Newborn Portraits | Chelsea Lietz Photography | Personalized Baby Hats

When clients come to me for newborn portraits, I love when they want a personal touch!  Sometimes this means we include cultural or heirloom items into their photo session.  Sometimes we style a session to coordinate with their baby’s nursery or their home.

One great way to add a personal touch to your newborn photos is to bring along a custom hat personalized with your child’s name.  You can also use a nickname or even a favorite sports team.  I highly recommend Knots for custom hats that fit newborns well.  You can find her on facebook or etsy, just click on the links I’ve provided.  You can even get larger sizes for milestone sessions!

I am happy to include your personal touches in your session.  If you have something in mind, please email me well in advance and I can recommend some of my favorite vendors for newborn items.  Some materials photograph better than others, some sellers do not size for a true newborn, and some sellers just have an overall better quality that I have come to trust.  I am happy to share suggestions with you!  And if you are crafty, feel free to make your own… that adds an extra personal touch because you will always remember creating it as baby kicked and squirmed in your tummy.  🙂   Thank you for choosing Chelsea Lietz Photography for your San Antonio newborn portraits.

 

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Chelsea Lietz Photography specializes in newborn, baby, child and maternity photography in San Antonio, Texas and surrounding areas including but not limited to Stone Oak and New Braunfels. Please “like” me on Facebook.

March 6, 2015

New Braunfels Newborn Photographer | Chelsea Lietz Photography Gives Back | Beau

I love being a New Braunfels area newborn photographer and I love giving back.  I recently offered a free newborn session and digital images to a “deserving” family via my facebook page.  Deserving was meant to mean many different things and I love the way it was interpreted. So many wonderful families were nominated that I decided to offer this gift to two families.  And yet I still yearned to give more.  And then First American Commercial Property Group AND a past client of mine pitched in to donate SIX more sessions for deserving families.

The Skelton family was the first in the studio and I loved every minute of it.  They were nominated by the aunt of one of my past clients, and I’m so glad Jenny shared their story with me.  The Skelton’s are parents to six! beautiful children, though one angel awaits them in heaven.  They felt the beautiful call to adopt, Mama homeschools her brood, and Dad serves all of us as a firefighter in New Braunfels.  I love all seven of them to pieces and I’ve only met two of them!

Here is their story in Sarah’s own words…

     “Ever since early in our marriage we knew we would want to adopt.  It was a desire that we know was put on our hearts by God.  We spent years praying and waiting for the right time to pursue adoption.  During that time we were blessed with having four children born to us.  We also suffered two miscarriages.
     Then after ten years of marriage we were introduced very unexpectedly to a little boy who was about seven months old and in need of a home to grow up in.  It wasn’t long before we and our children fell in love with him.  He very quickly and easily fit right in with our family.  He had the sweetest personality and was so handsome.  He was our son.  By God’s grace we were able to adopt our little guy.
      He began having medical difficulties.  We spent time in and out of hospitals finding no real answers.  At one point it seemed as if he was on the rebound as the problems he was having were subsiding.  Just as our hopes for him were up it happened.  We lost him.
      There are no words to describe the pain and confusion of our loss.  We cannot possibly fathom or explain why this happened.  We only know that Gods ways are higher than our own.  There remains an emptiness.  The loss of our precious son has left a profoundly significant void in our family that can never be filled.  Our little guy changed our lives forever during the short time we had him.
     Throughout the rollercoaster that has been the aftermath of this tragedy we still know two things.  God is still sovereign just as he was before, and He still loves us just as unendingly as he did before.  This we know to a certainty.
      We have since suffered through another miscarriage but we now have a brand new little girl.  She was born a bit early with some minor complications but she could not be more perfect.  She is our sweet number six and we are loving her more everyday just as with our five children before.”

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God Bless you Skelton family and thank you for sharing your story and your daughter with me.  May Beau bring you as much joy and laughter as the five have before her…

 

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Chelsea Lietz Photography specializes in newborn, baby, child and maternity photography in San Antonio, Texas and surrounding areas including but not limited to Stone Oak and New Braunfels.  New Braunfels newborn  photographer    Please “like” me on Facebook.

February 18, 2015

San Antonio Newborn Photographer | Hunting Photos of Baby Boy in Camo | Wren

Sweet baby Wren came to Chelsea Lietz Photography for newborn photos with a family that loves hunting and fishing!  They asked for some classic newborn portraits, some sibling shots with big brother, and some fun images to show their love of hunting and the great outdoors.  They even brought a vintage duck decoy from Wren’s nursery as a prop and I had plenty of camo.  But what really stole the show was the tiny hunting blind that a friend made for me.  It was so perfect for this sweet baby boy and he was an excellent model for me.

When you book your newborn portraits with Chelsea Lietz Photography, know that I am happy to use props that reflect your style and show a bit of your family identity.  (Aggie props are one of my most frequent requests!) But I also limit the props in a session so that you still receive classic, timeless photos that will be cherished for generations.  Before each session, the family fills out a style survey that tells me a little about how they envision their images, and then I style the session to reflect those desires.  My job is so fun!  🙂

 

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Chelsea Lietz Photography specializes in newborn, baby, child and maternity photography in San Antonio, Texas and surrounding areas including but not limited to Stone Oak and New Braunfels.  San Antonio Newborn photographer. Please “like” me on Facebook.

February 5, 2015

San Antonio Baby Photographer | Twins | Chelsea Lietz Photography

Being a San Antonio baby photographer is the best job in the world!  I love working with newborns, especially twins.  I photograph 20-30 sets of twins a year from newborns to one year olds.  When photographing newborn twins in my studio, I always use an assistant for an extra set of hands and for safety.  I have hundreds (maybe thousands!) of props available for twins and higher order multiples.  I love to capture the sweet connection between multiples, but I also photograph each baby separately for individual images.  I have also photographed three sets of triplets and would love to work with quadruplets… so bring me your babies!  😉

If you would like to see more of my twin images, search the blog for multiples or click here!

My favorite fertility clinic in San Antonio is RMA of Texas.  I love working with the San Antonio Mothers of Multiples.

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Chelsea Lietz Photography specializes in newborn, baby, child and maternity photography in San Antonio, Texas and surrounding areas including but not limited to Stone Oak and New Braunfels.  San Antonio baby photographer twins. Please “like” me on Facebook.

January 26, 2015

San Antonio Child Photographer | Chelsea Lietz Photography

Last week on my facebook page I asked for nominations for a “deserving” family to receive a complimentary newborn session and the digitals with printing rights.  I explained that “deserving” could mean a wide variety of things and that I just wanted to choose a family currently expecting a baby to bless.  I was raised to give freely and joyfully, and that lesson stuck with me.  I love to give back and I was looking forward to doing this for one family.

And then… something so beautiful happened.

FORTY THREE kind-hearted people went out of their way to nominate someone to me.  They opened their hearts in an effort to tell me why these families that they loved deserved this little treat.  They shared stories of hope, courage, perseverance, admiration, and love.  Always love.  Just the people nominating others touched my heart and moved me to tears.

And then there were the families they told me about!  43 amazing families who have overcome obstacles, fought the hard fight, grieved and hoped again.  These families that stick together, lean on each other and pursue the dream of parenthood.  Through my tears, I read about cancer, miscarriage, lost jobs, stillbirths, fertility treatments, military deployments, hard work, foster families, answered prayers, serving the Lord, adoptions, depression, working two jobs, selfless giving, and LOVE.  Always love.

Instantly I wished that I could photograph every single family and love on every single baby.  But I knew I couldn’t do that and still support my own family.  So I stretched my original promise of one family to two.

I resigned myself to choosing just two families out of the 43.  I underestimated just how hard it would be to decide.  They were ALL “deserving.”  And so many of their stories intersected with mine in some way.  I decided to pray on it over the weekend.

And do you know what happened?

Over the weekend I got a message from the good people at First American Commercial Property Group in San Antonio.  They heard about my project and wanted to sponsor FIVE MORE FAMILIES.  I was so touched and crying yet again.  Love wins.

And I am so very happy to announce that I will have the honor of photographing seven of the families nominated to me.  It was still so very hard to choose, but such a joy to me that I have something worthwhile to give. It isn’t much in the scheme of things, but it is what I have to offer.  The Lord gave me a passion and I get to share it.  It doesn’t get much better than that.

The families I chose were sent an email today, via their nominating friend or family member.

When I meet these families, I will be sharing a bit of their story.  Whatever they are comfortable sharing.  And I will absolutely be sharing the photos of their sweet babies.

Love wins, you guys.  Love wins.

 

 

Edited to Add:

A past client saw this post. She has two beautiful adopted kiddos and says that photos of her children are one of her most prized possessions. So she wants to pay it forward!

She is sponsoring ANOTHER deserving family, bringing our total to 8.  The world is so beautiful.  You guys are so beautiful!  Love wins.

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Chelsea Lietz Photography specializes in newborn, baby, child and maternity photography in San Antonio, Texas and surrounding areas including but not limited to Stone Oak and New Braunfels. San Antonio child photographer.  Please “like” me on Facebook.