Happy Half Birthday

Six-month milestone sessions are a pretty common form of baby photography, but turning it into a half birthday celebration gives it a whole new twist! Ameyali’s mom wanted a birthday party look for this six-month photo session. She brought in a special birthday cake to use as a prop—sort of a cake smash session without the smash part. I loved the confetti look!

Party Time

Mom brought the cutest traditional dress for Ameyali to wear. I think it’s so fun when parents include their cultural and ethnic heritage in baby pictures. This little girl looked adorable in her flower-patterned dress and big headband! She was very happy and smiley, and had a great time cruising around on her tummy as she tried to explore my studio.

We kept our setup pretty simple, with a bunch of balloons to match Ameyali’s dress, the cake Mom had brought, and a Happy ½ Birthday banner draped in the background. We kept our backdrop all white to really bring out the colors in the cake and the embroidery of Ameyali’s clothes.

Mini Milk Bath

We finished up our session with a baby-sized milk bath. Milk baths are a very popular option for maternity sessions—maybe because of their ancient history as a beauty treatment for women—but milk bath baby photography is also gaining popularity. For photography, creating the bath involves mixing just enough milk with warm bathwater to make it opaque—it’s not all milk! Flowers are also a great complement, adding color and interest.

We completely changed up the look for this part of our shoot, using a rustic tub and wooden background, plus lots of pink and yellow flowers. Ameyali seemed to enjoy splashing around in the warm, white liquid and playing with the flowers floating around her.

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Footsteps-Photography is owned by Amanda Webb. Amanda is a newborn, child, cake smash, maternity, and a family photographer. Amanda specializes in newborn, cake smash, and maternity portraiture.

While her husband is in the military, Amanda proudly serves her military community at Travis Air Force Base and her local community. Amanda also serves the surrounding areas that include (but not limited to): Vacaville, Solano County, Travis AFB, Fairfield, Napa Valley, Davis, Elk Grove, Concord, Sacramento, Beale AFB, Modesto, Walnut Creek, Oakland, San Francisco, and other surrounding Bay Area cities.