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AVAILABLE DATES:
sessions times depend on location ... please contact Gina to schedule your time. some of the available dates below already have a session on that day, so times may be restricted. other dates may be available. if none of the dates below will work, please contact Gina and she will try to work with your schedule.
See available dates below ... If no dates work, please contact me and we will try to work on an alternate date. -- Gina :)
November: 17 weekends:
Winter availability will be posted soon! Call or email if you would like to schedule a winter session.
**if you are interested in maternity photos or newborn photos, please contact Gina so we can discuss times**
i typically don't like to shoot newborns after the age of 2 weeks ... it gets really hard. you have to be really patient to get the right shots. well, the other day someone made a comment about how many photos i must have of olive. i replied that no, i really didn't have that many (except the newborns session i had done) --- that i had been taking most of them on my iphone. so i decided i needed to get some more now that she is more alert. i took these by myself, in a very short amount of time. and i am in love with every single one of them :)
she is gorgeous.
and so sweet.
do you know by now that i love the detail shots?
sleeping in the cool breeze outside.
eyelashes getting long!!!
wispy lashes ....
so perfect .... she's getting a little bit of chub!!
talking to mommy :)
and this ..... i do believe that i see a bit of myself in this one photo. her daddy can take credit for all of the rest :)
i was taking a few photos the other day .............. i just wanted to get a few snapshots ...
and then big sis walks down, and baby olive starts beaming!!! i couldn't believe it :)
stare out with harp ...
and more grins with big brother jonah. these were the biggest grins i had seen by far :)
this was the inside of olive's birth announcement ................... i love it!!
these were taken when olive was 1 week. i love this.
but this will be made huge into a canvas to be hung on our wall!!! this was exactly what i was after. i couldn't believe i got this .... i was mostly worried about the boys. they proved to me that they can be patient and calm for a minute :)
it's no secret that this little blog has been neglected ........... is anyone out there still reading?! in case anyone is, see the little miracle below that contributed to my laziness when it came to the blog. she wore me down when she was in my belly, and she still is :) but we are over the moon with her, and she was certainly worth the wait. so, introducing baby Olive Piper Shuppert (named after her great, great, great grandmother Olive “Ollie” Louise Hertzel Carmony.) the photos below were taken between one and two weeks. stay tuned for some photos of her biggest fans -- her brothers and sister!!
i love newborn lips!!!
and a little newborn nose :)
eyes wide open! here she is posing for a photo that mamaw requested on the blanket she made olive.
again, i have been humbled. i so believe that one of the best ways to get good into your life is by donating your services.
recently, i had the opportunity to photograph another Gift of Life patient. Asma is from Afghanistan and had 3 surgeries in 6 weeks.
i have always thought that it is so neat how kids gravitate towards one another .... no matter the age. i had the pleasure of my son toting along this day. as soon as we were introduced, asma was smiling and putting her hands towards harper, who is five years old. he immediately replied with a smile, and put his hand out so she could grab it. things like this make me teary and proud .... throughout the shoot she looked towards harper and laughed. the image below is one when we moved into a different room and sat her down on the couch, and harper went over and sat on the floor near her. they again grasped hands. i think it is neat how kids are so interested in other kids. i was also so proud of harper for being so good. he knew that she had been sick and he feels sad about things like that. later, we were in line to get a pillow pet, as that day was the day that tons and tons of pillow pets were delivered to Riley. a little boy at the hospital said that every kid there needs a pillow pet, along with all of their visitors that day. as we were in line, we noticed a cute little baby behind us with tubes in his nose. my son smiled and waved to him, then turned around to me and said that he wished he didn't have to be like that. my whole body filled with tears of thanks that harper is so compassionate and gratitude for my kids' health .... i certainly do wish there was a way to just make everyone healthy ... but thank goodness there are kids out there who teach us what life is really all about.
so ... here is beautiful asma's story :
Col. Faqir, Asma's grandfather is a Col. in the Afghan army and a good friend of Col. Newman of the Indiana National Guard presently stationed in Kabul. Their friendship led Col Faqir to let Col. Newman know about his granddaughter, Asma, having a serious heart problem. Col. Newman immediately contacted General Umbarger, head of the Indiana National Guard. He contacted Rotary Gift of Life and the correspondence between the doctor in Afghanistan and Dr. Turrentine at Riley. Asma was living with an oxygen level of about 55% and very frail. There was even correspondence as to whether she was strong enough to make the long trip from Kabul to Indianapolis.
She was brought to Indianapolis by her grandparents, underwent heart surgery at Riley and has now returned to Kabul a healthy one-year old with a chance at a normal life. Rotary Gift of Life was with the family from their arrival in Indianapolis, to staying at Ronald McDonald House, to the medical pre-op to the surgery to seeing them off at the airport 61 days after their arrival.
