Carl Joseph {tiny Love}

My beautiful little nephew is just one of the prettiest little babies ever. He has a thick head of hair that is growing rapidly – he definitely inherited the Van Dyks crowns on his head (you will see in the second part of this post that his hair just goes everywhere) He wakes up with a natural mohawk, it’s so cute!

I don’t know if its just me or if it happens to a lot of photographers, but photographing my little nephew was one of the most difficult things I ever had to do, here I thought that I will get some practice, but Carl didn’t want to know anything about it. The fist couple of photos was the second attempt shoot (the first I can’t even upload) ;) he was around 10days old and the third attempt he was just over 6 weeks old – it went a lot better!

Attempt 3! This was at my Mom & Dad’s house.

He kept on falling asleep while I was photographing him in different positions.

10 Responses

  1. Carien Moller 09. Mar, 2012 at 10:31 am #

    Renche Dis pragtige Fotokies!!! Hy is Adorable!
    Dit is een van die moeilikste shoots… moenie aleen voel nie…
    Sodra hulle ouer as 1 / 2 weke is ,raak dit al hoe moeiliker, want dan slaap hulle nie meer so baie en vas nie,of dis hoe ek dit ervaar het met my Skoonsussie se dogtertjie…het gister n newborn shoot probeer doen en het ook net n paar fotokies gekry… en dit was ook die 2de probeer slag. Maar ons is gebless om sulke klein mensies so naby ons te he… want hulle leer ons baie!

    Wel jy het al baie meer oefeing in as ek maar eks bly om te hoor eks nie die enigste een wat dit so ervaar nie.. :D

    Love jou werk!

    • Rensche 09. Mar, 2012 at 10:49 am #

      Hi Carien, die beste tyd om hulle afteneem is eintlik binne die eerste 7dae wat hulle gebore is, maar Carl was moeilik en alles was nog so bietjie nuut vir Piet & Genevieve. Ek het nog n baby shoot gedoen met my nefie se seuntjie en dit het baie maklik gegaan, dink dit hang maar van baba tot baba af :) geluk met jou suster se kleinding – hoop jy speel lekker!

      • Carien Moller 12. Mar, 2012 at 1:47 pm #

        Hi Ja dit is die beste tyd! Ek het al 2 Newborns op 3 en 5 Daggies afgeneem en dit was defnitief die maklikste en Mooiste Shoots…. Ja dit hang defnitief af van Baba to baba. Maar Dankie vir jou Inspirasie! Dankie ek speel vreeslik lekker…

  2. André van der Veen 09. Mar, 2012 at 1:14 pm #

    Hy’s gorgeous, mal oor sy haartjies!

    Jy’t ‘n great job gedoen, als in ag genome – dis nerve wrecking vir die ouers en as baba kriewel en nie saam werk nie, wel…you know the rest ;-)

    Maak my sommer terug verlang na ons 2 kiddies toe hulle so klein was :)

  3. Lucia 09. Mar, 2012 at 3:06 pm #

    Dis pragtige foto’s! Dankie my pop! Ons is darem geseënd om so mooi kleinseun te hê! Die mamma en pappa is net so mooi!

  4. Genevieve 09. Mar, 2012 at 4:51 pm #

    Soo mooi!! Baie dankie dit is baie spesiaal.

  5. Liesl Roos 19. Mar, 2012 at 9:04 am #

    Such beautiful images! I’m also an aunt of a 2 month old baby and just love it !

  6. AC 19. Mar, 2012 at 10:59 pm #

    That is one stunning baby. In the picture with his beautiful mother they look exactly alike. Great things are in store for him.

  7. Clara 20. Mar, 2012 at 8:49 am #

    Dit lyk asof sy kuifie so gestyle is – adorable!

  8. Anlie Meyer 04. Jul, 2012 at 8:04 am #

    Shoe lyk baie na sy Pa…so freakin cute…mens sal hulle dood soen en druk. Stunning Rensche!!!!