Meet sweet little A. I have had the opportunity to photograph this pretty little girl a couple of times during her first year. This session was to celebrate her first birthday. We choose to do it outside, as this age has so much more fun outside running around as they please, and I just follow. That is exactly what we did and I think everyone involved was happy.

Since this was little A’s official one year session her mom brought along a cute cup cake. It was fun to see her dive into it and enjoy a little snack during our session.

The plantation setting with this beautiful little girl made for a wonderful photo setting. If you would like a session like this of your child, please contact me (Anna-Karin 225.284.6354) to setup your session.

Here is handsome little J. His parents were so patient and waited for me to come back from my trip to Sweden in order to have his next session on my babyplan. I usually do it around 4 months of age, but due to my travels we were close to 5 months for J.

His parents brought along an adorable outfit that his dad had worn when he was the same age. It was in perfect condition and grandma came along to make sure little J could fit into it during our session. He looked so handsome in it!

Little J was quite the athlete as well. He held onto his toes real well.

His favorite part of the session was to play with mom and dad.

If you have a little one and would like to schedule a photo session to document the growing stages. Please contact me to set up a session. I am currently booking for the last week of October. If you have holiday portraits in mind, now would be the best time to call for your session time in order to get your order placed before the holiday cut off time. My (Anna-Karin’s photography) phone number is: (225) 284-6354 .

Here is a beautiful lady I had the opportunity to photograph while she was still pregnant and then again when their little daughter was only a few days old. I will say I am very proud that little G and her parents took the over three hour long trip to come and see me when their baby was not even a week old. The results were great. Baby G was very cooperative and I got exactly what I was hoping for from my session. It makes a big difference if we are able to capture the newborn’ness in the first two weeks.

If you are pregnant and would like to schedule a session to document this special time, check out my maternity package information on my FAQ page on my website. I love to photograph maternity sessions. Another benefit is that I get a change to create a relationship with the parents before baby is actually here.

Meet pretty little E. She has the longest and prettiest lashes. What a sweet little girl.

These are from her four month session a little while ago. She was so good.

Her parents brought the pretty christening gown to document this special time. I am sure it will become an heirloom that little E will pass down to her children one day.

If you would like to schedule a session for your child I am currently booking for mid October at this point.

Since I still don’t have regular access to internet connection since hurricane Gustav, please call me to set up your appointment. My number is: Anna-Karin’s Photography : (225)284-6354. I look forward to hear from you.

Here is sweet little L. She recently turned one year and we celebrated with a cake smash. She loved the cake and ate every single crumb that there was.  She stood up and held onto the little piece of paper that the cake was sitting on looking at us as if she wanted more. The cake was a creation by Ashley Stephens. If you would like her contact information for tasty and adorable little cakes let me know and I will happy share. Little L is a graduate of my baby plan and it has been a true pleasure to see her change from tiny newborn to independent young toddler.

After our session, little L was so messy with all the cake crum’s and frosting covering her hair and body. She had to get a little bath in my sink at the studio before it was time for her to leave.

If you would like to set up a session for your child, feel free to call me to do so. Anna-Karin’s photography (225)284-6354. I am still struggling with internet access due to our temporary move since hurricane Gustav. If you are trying to get in touch with me call me first. At this point I only have internet access here and there. At this point I am unsure when I will actually have normal internet coverage, but I will post here on my blog as soon as I know.

I can still get back with you by e-mail, it may just take a day or two longer then it normally takes.

I wanted to share this beautiful newborn little girl. Her parents were so good and came to me when she was only a couple of days old. Because they came when she was that young we got many beautiful and lovely photographs that they now have as a memory of this special time.

She was so good for us and put up with all the different poses I wanted to capture from this session.

If you are expecting a little one and would like beautiful portraits like these. Please contact me while you are still pregnant. We will then schedule a time in your child’s first two weeks to photograph the newness of your little one. The first two weeks is the absolute best time to do this as when they get older then that they are much more alert and it is hard to capture the newborn sleepy images. Right around two weeks the baby will be going through a growth spurt, this time they like to spend longer time eating. This can make a photo session a bit difficult as baby then is not happy about being photographed but rather want to be fed. Also, many newborns get baby acne that sets in around the second week and can sometimes last for up to month. This is sometimes hard to hide when photographing newborns, hence one more reason to why  I prefer the newborns in their first two weeks of life.

To schedule a time for your newborn photo session with Anna-Karin, call me at (225) 284-6354.

Well it has been a while since I have been able to feature some of my clients due to all unusual activity going on. Since we are trying to get back to normal since the hurricane I thought it was about time.

Here is one family I had the opportunity to photograph in an outdoor session. We had a great time and I got many lovely captures.

These siblings really liked to be around each other which was refreshing to see. Hope that they continue to feel that was as they go through their teenage years,lol.

The two sisters had a fun time playing by the tree’s in the park.

If you reading my blog would like to schedule a session for your family. Now is a good time in order to have the prints ready to give at holiday times. I am currently booking for beginning of October right now. I have a few couple of session available during weekdays before then. Please call me (Anna-Karin)225.284.6354 to set up your session time.

Well it has been a week since I last wrote and lots has happened since then. We really got slammed by Gustav. The whole Baton Rouge area is in rough shape and many areas still don’t have power and will not for maybe about three weeks or so. That is very rough considering the heat we do get down here at this time of the year and then no power or AC .

For us personally we did survive Gustav but our house did not do to well. Our neighbors tree crushed our roofs and a branch went through the bedroom window. It also came through the ceiling in our bathroom.
Then before long water was pouring in through the ceiling in all our bedrooms.

Our house is not habitable as of now and we had to evacuate. The pictures here were taken right after it happened and after it stopped raining. It has since gotten worse where the ceilings are falling in. Our insurance company is being very helpful and we just got an apt actually right next to my studio. We will be staying there while our house is renovated.We have been rather busy this past week trying to empty our house and see what can be saved from the damage. If you are waiting for either your photographs to go online or your print order to come in. I am working on that and hope to be able to tend to that asap. This recent hurricane situation has put me and my family’s normal  schedule a little bit off track for now.

If you are scheduled for a studio session in the near future we will go on as planned as my studio is just like normal with power as well. I am checking in with my on-location places to see how they fared the recent hurricane. Hopefully everything should be fine.

I still don’t have internet hooked up at our new place and am only able to check the internet temporarily right now. If you need to get hold of me please do call me as you will be able to get a faster response that way. My phone number is: Anna-Karin (225) 284-6354.

Thanks to all of you that has offered to help me and my family out. We are doing great and thanks to our friends we have been well fed and taken care of during this last week that was a little bit on the rough side for us. I hope that those of you that are local and reads my blog are ok? I would love for you to touch base with me and let me know how you  and your family did in the aftermath of this recent hurricane. Feel free to send me an e-mail and just let me know.

I am hoping that this is the only hurricane we will get this season (don’t know how wishful that thinking is……). Baton Rouge area is having a hard enough time cleaning up after this one!

Other than that we are in a great mood and happy to be together. Thankfully what broke at our house are just material things and those can be replaced.

Thanks again for all well wishes. We are doing great!

I was about due to blog about some clients but due to recent weather situation here in S. Louisiana I will blog about our current visitor hurricane Gustav.

It is now about 10.30am on Labor day and so far we still have power. The winds are picking up and it is raining. Still not bad , more like a bad rainy day.

The other day when my family and I were out preparing for this hurricane I brought along my camera to document what happens in situations like this. We had already filled up our cars, but wanted to fill up a spare container with gas in case we have a hard time finding gas post hurricane. It took some driving around for a long period of time to even find a gas station that had any gas left. Most gas stations looked just like this one. Sold out of gas, with plastic bags on the pump handles to let customers know.

In the grocery store isles certain items were totally sold out. Like bread and milk and egg. Here are a few from our neighborhood grocery store.

Just in our neighborhood we have some preparing for  the strong winds by taping their windows. This is in case the glass brake, it will then not shatter every where.

Last time when hurricane Katrina passed through here we were without power for four days. We are hoping that we will not loose power , or I should rather say that when we do that we dont loose it for as long of a time.

A fun little anecdote is that I woke up this morning by a phone call from a Swedish news television station wanting to interview me as a Swede in the hurricane region. That was fun and have since also been interviewed on the radio. I shared these images featured here with a national Swedish newspaper yesterday and was asked to include a photograph of me and family. So here we are yesterday preparing by cleaning up all of our outside stuff laying around. Here is me and the boys!

I will update blog as soon as I am able once this storm is passing through.

For my clients reading this, I am currently leaving your galleries online until this storm situation is over with. I would not want your images to expire before you have been able to make a final decision due to no electricity.

I want to take this moment to say thank you to all my clients that were so understanding during the time I was in Sweden due to the recent loss of my father. It has been so wonderful to have nice and understanding clients who were willing to wait to view their portraits from their sessions. Those who were willing to wait for the delivery of their print order while I was away and willing to wait to schedule their next sessions for when I was back here in Baton Rouge.

I am now back here as of two weeks today! I am almost caught up with everybody, there are a few of you left to see your photographs and they will be ready in the next day or so.

I want to share some highlights from my trip to Sweden in July and August. Since I was there for a kind of sad reason, I did not take as many photographs as I usually do when traveling. I still got many great ones and here are just a few that shows where I am from and how the Swedish summer was this year.

I grew up in the country side and I had a fun time capturing some of the typical views from that part of my home country. Really close to my hometown, we found an organic pig farm. There were hundreds of little piglets running around with their mom’s. It was a fun visit and my little niece enjoyed it so much.

Here is my sweet niece having fun watching the little piglets.

These pretty flowers were picked in my mom’s garden and a friend of hers that used to be a florist put it together this nicely for my father’s funeral service.

My sister and niece.

I grew up in a small town in the middle of Sweden. It is called Säter. This town is several hundred years old (and it is small….lol) . Every summer there is a little festival that celebrates the heritage of this town. I was fortunate enough to be there during this time. People dress up in clothing custom to the time of hundred years ago or so.

Here are just a few fun captures that shows the dancing and performing.

These are chargrilled herring. It was yummy!

Swedes love to eat crawfish just as much as the Louisianian’s. They do it a little bit differently then here in Louisiana though. These are served on platters instead of poured on newspaper clad tables, but still very tasty!

Some typical Swedish pastry! Swedish cinnamon buns, l love to eat those!

This was the first thing I bought when I landed at the airport in Stockholm. Although this photograph is from an adorable little bakery out in Stockholm’s archipelago. I had the pleasure to visit some dear friends summer house in Sandhamn and got to enjoy the beautiful nature and scenery of that island.

This is from Gamla Stan in Stockholm. It is the old town and is very well preserved from hundreds of years ago and a fun place where lots of tourists including me go to.

Last but not the least, a picture of me in front of the Royal Castle! These two young gentlemen and their family is very dear to me. I used to be their nanny for almost five years. I started working with their family eighteen years ago and we are still good friends today. It was so much fun to spend time with them and see them grown up and nice and entertaining to be around. In this photograph their youngest brother is missing, but I also spent time with him and the parents.

Thanks also to all my Swedish friends and family that made my trip home so wonderful. Tusen Tack för allt!

Then the best part of this trip was to get to come home to my own family and my two sweet little boys. That had just started school. Here they are on the way to school my first morning back home.