The wobbly bit.
Half an hour at the studio, just your baby, at the stage that goes past fastest.
Friday 25 & Wednesday 30 September · Carluke · £150
They can sit up. They can’t go anywhere yet.
There’s a stretch of about eight weeks where a baby has worked out how to stay upright and hasn’t yet worked out how to leave. Arms braced. Back straight. That expression like they’ve genuinely surprised themselves and aren’t sure how they feel about it.
It doesn’t feel like a milestone while it’s happening. It feels like a Tuesday. Which is exactly why almost nobody photographs it — you don’t think to book until they’re crawling and it’s gone.
I went looking for photos of my own son at this stage and found myself down a rabbit hole of cuteness, they’re so of my favourites. .
That’s the whole reason these exist.
Half an hour. That’s genuinely it.
You arrive and we spend the first five minutes doing nothing useful. I talk to them, they decide whether I’m alright, you take your coat off and stop being nervous. This bit isn’t wasted time — it’s why the photos work.
Then they sit, and I photograph them.
No props. No hats, no baskets, no bear. Nothing that dates the photograph or takes attention off the person you actually came for.
Some babies beam the whole way through. Some look at me like I’ve deeply offended them personally. Both of those are the photograph, and I’ve never once wished a baby had behaved differently.
Things you don’t need to worry about.
A settled baby. If she’s hungry we stop and you feed her. That’s not an interruption, that’s half an hour of me photographing you doing the thing you do forty times a week and never see.
What they’re wearing. Plain and simple beats an outfit. Neutrals, no big logos or slogans. If you’re stuck, bring two and we’ll pick.
Being in them yourself. You don’t have to be. But if you’d like to be — even just hands, even just the back of you holding her — say so and we’ll do it. Those are consistently the ones mums order.