About: Welcome! I am a children and family portrait photographer in the Vancouver area. Here on the blog you'll find advanced previews of recent client shoots, tips for making your sessions as fun and beautiful as possible and a peak into my life - including lots of photographs of the little guy who inspires me everyday. For session information and packages, please visit my website.
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This handsome little man had a bit of a rough first week so we did his newborn photographs a touch later than we normally would have.  Three to five days old is the ideal time to photograph a newborn, anything older than that and the babe usually makes me work hard to get sleeping baby poses. Not this little guy, he was a perfect model.

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I think it had something to do with how happy and relaxed his parents are, and how truly happy they are that he is in their life.

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So peaceful.

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( August 1, 2011 ) Cate said:

Wow, he's a cute little guy! I love the photo with mom and baby together. :)

( August 7, 2011 ) Bicycle Accident Lawyer said:

Wow this is a really cute baby, I adore the picture of the parents with the baby, it looks so genuine!

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This family's reaction when I stopped by to deliver their final albums is what makes me love being a photographer so much.

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Definitely my favourite shot of the day.
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I love how he's looking up at them in this series.mnewborn1_vancouvernewborn.jpg

And I love it when babies have beautiful old faces
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As much as I enjoy my role as baby whisperer and photographing curled up sleeping babies, I always love the images of the new family all together. There's just something about how tenderly a new parent holds their babe and how lovingly they gaze at him (or her).
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( July 18, 2011 ) Heather M. said:

Oh Jenn, these are just beautiful. I love the ones of the 3 of them. Wish we had some like that when our babes were born.

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Beautiful name. Beautiful home. Beautiful family.
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( June 29, 2011 ) Cate said:

I love the photo on the left, with the logs and pine cones. What a great idea to use that part of their house! And mom looks so happy in the other photo. Just so content holding her baby. :)

( July 1, 2011 ) Heather M. said:

oh these are so precious. what a doll!

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Sophie had some of the best hair I've seen. As a mama to two babies who had virtually no hair for their first 8 months, newbron hair gets me every time.


This is one of my favourite series ever. Beautiful smiles from both mom and babe and one very happy family.

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( June 24, 2011 ) Heather M. said:

Jenn, these are so gorgeous! It's SO good to see your photos on the blog again.

( June 28, 2011 ) Cate said:

Beautiful photos! I bet they just love them!!

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Just a reminder to get your entries in by Friday!

Not sure what I'm talking about?
For the 5 days leading up to my new website launch, I gave you my top 5 reasons why you need a portrait session this summer. Now I want to hear from you.

Let me know why your family needs to have a portrait session with me this summer. The winner will receive a complimentary portrait session with me this summer and an 11"x14" wall print from the session.  My panel of judges will look through all the entries and choose their favourite.


Email your entry to jenn@jenndispirito.com with "why I need Jenn to photograph my family" in the subject line.

I've had some great entries so far; I'm glad I'm not the one who's going to be judging them! Keep them coming!

And just because a photograph makes every blog post better....
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( June 14, 2010 ) Heather M. said:

Oh my, that photo is priceless! She is SO cute. Can I enter? Will you come to Calgary to photograph my fam?! ;)

( June 15, 2010 ) Cate said:

I hope you're going to blow that up BIG and hang it in her room. Precious!!!

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I finally got a chance tonight to edit a few more from Grace's "newborn" session. She was 9 pounds 15 ounces at birth and she sure doesn't look like a newborn in some of them! And while we do have some snaps of her in the first couple weeks, I wasn't feeling up to pulling out all my newborn stuff until she was 2-1/2 weeks old.

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The best time for newborn images is really around the 5 day mark. Other photographers had told me I should get someone else to do my newborn photographs but I foolishly ignored them thinking I could do it all myself. Silly really, since my favourite images from client sessions are always the one with the newborn and his or her parents. And, of course, I can't do those myself. :)

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( June 14, 2010 ) Heather M. said:

These are awesome, Jenn! You still got some amazing photos of her. I wish I would have had someone come take photos for me too - I totally regret it.

She is so adorable!

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She's here!

I'll post her birth story in a few days (less the graphic details) but, in the meantime, here is our beautiful Grace at one month old.

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She has the most gorgeous baby leg chub ever!

A few things I want to remember about one month old....

- she already weighed over 11 pounds
- we were getting our first smiles
- the baby acne was fading
- if we were lucky, a 4-1/2 hour stretch between night-time feedings, if not then 2-1/2 hours
- the way Angelo would say "it's okay Grace, it's okay" in a high-pitched voice when she cries
- the leg chub, of course

And with this post, the blog is no longer a ghost town. I'll be back to regular posting from here on in. Thanks to those who stuck with me through the blogging hiatus. :) My schedule will open for new client bookings when my new website launches on Monday June 7th at 9AM. Watch for details in the next couple days.

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( May 27, 2010 ) Amanda Robertshaw said:

She's adorable Jenn! Glad you're blogging again - I'm looking forward to seeing many more pictures of Grace (and her big brother of course!).

( May 29, 2010 ) Heather M. said:

She is so beautiful, Jenn. I just adore her name and those little leg rolls. I hope you are all well. Thinking of you!

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