Photographing a 7 day old newborn..... and her siblings

I attempted to photograph my 7 day old niece Camilla alongside her older siblings Stella, Lucca and Vito for some family photos with the new addition.

Camilla cooperated like you wouldn't believe, as most 7 day old newborns do.  They sleep.... a lot. 

I prefer awake images over the sleeping images of newborns, and was very grateful that she stayed awake for the first part of her solo shoot.  I was able to get a nice mixture of awake and of the sleeping beauty.

Her older sister and brothers are usually well behaved when I photograph them.  They were very excited to have Camilla home which basically threw my ideas for their family portrait out the window.

We went with the flow and I was very happy with what we got and feel I captured all of their personalities.

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