This super sweet mother and son photo shoot took place at the California State Capitol in downtown Sacramento. The bond between them was beautiful to see and photograph. Though boys are not usually a fan of having their portraits done, this young man was so sweet and cooperative, willingly posing for his mom and me and coming up with ideas of his own.

The Capitol Building in Sacramento makes the perfect location for modern classic portraits. The pillared architecture and black-and-white tile are stunning!

Blue shirts with blue eyes always work great in portraits!

What a handsome young man!

He may be shy, but we got a giggle! Fart app for the win once again!

Such a sweet moment between this mother and her little boy!

I love photographing the mother and child bond! So often mothers are the ones capturing the daily snapshots that they miss out on actually being in the photos with their children. Sound familiar? Don’t allow yourself to be missing from your children’s photographic memories. One day they will want to look at those photos and remember the times they spent with you. Let’s capture those memories together! Contact me to book a mother and child photoshoot.

Who’s ready for some Halloween Portraits? Seven years of doing these and it’s so exciting to see the same sweet faces who’ve been coming every year from the first and also to see new little faces join in our yearly Halloween tradition!

When: Saturday, October 26th

Where: Land Park, Sacramento

Cost: One package of diapers and wipes.  Larger and toddler sizes are typically the most needed, but any size you bring will be welcome!

Send me an email at naomiharrisonphotography@gmail.com with your 2-3 preferred time slots to book your spot (I’ll do my best to assign you one of your preferred times).

Session Times

9:40AM

11:00AM

The Details: Bring a package of diapers, a package of baby wipes and your child dressed in their Halloween costume.  The diapers and wipes will be donated to the Sacramento Loaves and Fishes.  Sessions will be 3-5 minutes long and you will receive two digital portraits of your child via email.  Due to the short nature of these sessions, sibling portraits will not be possible.

Spring has arrived in Sacramento and everything has become so colorful!

Flowers are blooming everywhere!  Morning glories drape the rustic brick walls of Old Sacramento.

The bushes at Capitol Park are blossoming with colorful blooms!

The fields and empty lots are glowing with the vibrant yellow mustard seed!

After all this rain, wildflowers are in abundance, growing all over the city!  But they won’t last long, so if a wildflower portrait session is what you want, contact me very soon!

If you’re wanting something a little different than the usual newborn portraits, we could have your baby’s portrait session out in nature with the beautiful flowers as a background!

Do you remember blowing dandelions as a child?  The parks are full of them just now!  Why not plan your spring portrait session at Land Park where the dandelions are in abundance?  Such a timeless, childhood portrait!

If you’re a spring gardener, you know it’s about time to begin planting your seeds.  What fun it would be to plan a lifestyle session at home of your family working in the garden together.

Doesn’t everyone garden in their pearls?

Even if your child isn’t particularly impressed with springtime and flowers, we can still capture some adorable childhood portraits!

Email me at naomiharrisonphotography@gmail.com if you’re ready to plan your children’s spring portrait session!

The year 2016 took me all over the counties of Sacramento, Placer, Tuolumne, San Francisco and Marin to photograph tiny newborns, beautiful babies and fun-loving children!  It was a wonderful, busy year!  I met so many great new families and saw again all of my annual clients whose children were a little bit older, a little bit bigger and a little bit more grown up than the last time I saw them.  This job is so rewarding and so much fun, capturing the amazing personalities of these beautiful children as they grow up!  Here are a few of my favorite images taken during 2016 portrait sessions.

This was not a planned photo.  I was standing on a chair to get a different angle for her baby brother’s newborn portraits.  She was standing near him, just watching what was going on, when she glanced up at me.  Less than a second and she had darted across the room, but I caught those gorgeous blue eyes and sweet expression!

I have noticed a pattern when I have portrait sessions with boys, particularly little boys.  They need to be moving, exploring, discovering!  With little girls, they are much more likely to stand still and work with the camera.  But when I photograph small boys, I need to make sure I have something for them to do or a game for them to play, and then I watch and wait for the rare moments when they turn their eyes to me.  With this little guy, we had ducked under some of the low branches that line the pathways of the Berkeley Marina and discovered a small clearing with this awesome tree that was growing out sideways.  He spent quite a bit of time climbing and exploring the tree and I took a wonderful collection of images that so capture a wild and free boyhood!

I’ve been photographing this young girl since she was seven months old.  Now she is seven YEARS old!  She has grown into a sweet and beautiful girl and it was so fun to photograph her once again!

Remember how I said above that little boys often need something to DO during portraits?  For this photo, I simply told them “I bet you can’t run down the path with your arms touching the entire time!”  They took my bet and won, haha!  But really I won because they didn’t want to take photos, but I made it look like they actually love taking photos, haha!

We had to do an all-outdoors session for this sweet four-week-old baby.  It was chilly and windy just off the bay and he was a touch on the fussy side.  But as soon as I laid him down in this cozy spot under the wildflowers, I could see his body just relax and he fell into an immediate deep sleep.  The calming power of nature!

I got to photograph this pretty baby every three months, from her newborn portraits to her first year portraits!  It was so much fun seeing how much she had changed and grown in those few months between each of the sessions!  These two images are from her nine month session.  Those bright eyes and clasped hands!  Need I say more?  Such sweetness!

Sleeping under the calming touch of his mother’s hands.  This was at the very end of his newborn session after I had already packed up my equipment.  The moment was so sweet, I just couldn’t let it pass without capturing it.  Mom just laughed as I pulled out my camera again, stood up on the bed and started snapping.

Brothers!  This shot just makes me laugh!  A real life moment of brotherly love, haha!

So simple, so classic, so sweet!

Red hair, outrageous personality and pulling funny faces at the camera!  This baby girl was an absolute blast to photograph and those pursed lips make me chuckle every time I see this photo.  Definitely a fave!