Newborn fairy gardens are my current passion. When I moved my studio from Holly Springs to Raleigh the building of the newborn fairy gardens began. It has taken a while and I generally work on them every week, but they are amazing. Below you will read about and see samples of the different gardens that I am building. The gardens are my customer’s favorite place to take photos of their new babies as well. I am slowly getting used to using large farm equipment around the property. This is in stark contrast to my former life where I never even mowed grass. Just to humor you, I was 49 years old the first time I moved grass. You are not laughing are you? May you would be if you saw me on the tractor last week with the nose of it up in the air. It was popping a wheelie but in horse country I say the darned thing “reared up.” Thank goodness it does come with the safety features of roll bar and seat belt.
I now have five newborn fairy gardens right outside the door of my Raleigh portrait studio. Having them right at my fingertips makes getting a wide variety of outdoor newborn images for my clients super easy. Posing the babies happens inside the warmed up studio. Then we take them out to the garden to be photographed. We then go back into the studio to set up a new shot. My areas are as follows and sample images will be posted down further in this blog post.
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The Woodland Fairy Garden
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The first and traditional Fairy Garden
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The Grapevine Garden
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The Rain Forest Garden
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My blue garden
Last year I began the construction of the Woodland Fairy Garden. I started this area with newborn boys in mind. The area is coming along well as I plant mostly perennial flowers in my gardens. It was really nice last year but it’s amazing this year since the flowers come back in abundance. Collecting moss as become thing to do. This year the woodland gardens has moss as well as logs, ivy, hostas and tons of ferns. These plants love the shaded environment provided by the huge live oak. Transplanting moss is not fun my friends… but in the end the moss makes amazing color and texture in images. Here is an examples of a newborn photographed in the Woodland Fairy Garden.
My first and traditional fairy garden is beautiful and filled with different types of flowers all spring, summer and fall. I even keep pansies planted to survive the cold months for photographing toddlers. The area is surrounded by moss covered tumbled brick and hosts a flagstone path that makes a nice leading line into any portrait. Every week I go out and new flowers have emerged. It’s a nice surprise to me as well. I have planted so much that I sometimes forget what will be coming up next. Here is an example of an images taken in the Traditional Fairy Garden.
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