Landon Paul Skoog

I absolutely love shooting weddings. I thought it was my favorite thing to photograph. But I was wrong. Births are by far my favorite thing. There is something so spectacular and so magical about a birth - from seeing the mother's pain change to sheer joy in seconds, when she holds her newborn baby. It's so wonderful!! And I love being able to capture that for people as well. I know, personally, I LOVED having the birth of Seth photographed and will continue to do that for all my children. I will absolutely cherish those pictures forever.

I have so far only done the births of family members (my sister and sister-in-law to be exact). I'm still trying to convince others it's the way to go, but I understand how modesty can take over your desire to want those pictures. To fight the myths of birth pictures, I do not, I repeat, DO NOT photograph anything that would expose you or would embarrass you in any sort of way. It's a completely clean and beautiful display of pictures. I don't do anything x-rated here! :) Really, the birth pictures mainly consist of things that happen post birth - the mother's reaction, weighing the baby, those first few moments with your child, etc....

Anyways, all that to say I got to witness another nephew being born! Landon Paul arrived on Oct. 21 - a whole 9 days early! Jen and Bryan did not know what they were having, so to be in the room and hear "It's a boy!" was very exciting.
























Here is the whole birth slideshow in case you are interested....