Portraits | Shell Bailey Photography

Jan

Lifestyle Family Portrait: Holly, Eric, & Family

family / lifestyle portraits / 0 Comments / January 12, 2010

I don’t do family & children photoshoots too often- it’s just something that hasn’t come up very much. (Although with all the kids that are running around lately, I’m sure that will soon change!) Kids always make an entertainig change of pace, and whenever an absolutely adorable family comes along, well, it’s hard to resist. Holly & Eric & the kids were kind enough to invite me into their home to do a lifestyle portrait shoot for them, so we took some time out from a snowy Saturday afternoon before to get a few shots.

We’ll start with Alana, the youngest:

Eyes to die for, seriously. Isn’t she a beauty? They’ll all grow up to be heartbreakers, though, and if you think I’m exaggerating-

Next, Colby, who always had the biggest grins for me, and Logan, so serious. Or trying to be! He showed me his room and read me a book.

And then you can’t forget about the furry children:

Thanks, Holly and Eric! You have such a beautiful family. : )

Nov

Maternity Portraits: Anna & Dan at Saxonburg Park

bellies / family / 0 Comments / November 18, 2009

You might remember that a few months ago, I posted some maternity photos that I took for my sister-in-law, expecting her first. Those were taken when she was seven months due, and everyone was waiting to see some baby belly! Well, we weren’t done there. We did another quick session in the park with her husband, Dan, when Anna was nine months due. Just a week before the baby was born! I’m obviously still catching up on my posting, but here are some of my favorites.

Aren’t they adorable?

Sep

Anna at Seven Months

bellies / 1 Comment / September 16, 2009

My sister-in-law, Anna, is seven months pregnant with her first. :) It’s been exciting because this is one of the first babies in our generation & circle of friends- and they’re not finding out what it is! There’s been endless speculation and poking her belly for months. A few weeks ago, we finally realised that she’s starting to show enough for belly pictures. This is only the first set… I’ll definitely be taking more around 8-9 months, and in November you have some newborn portraits to look forward to. :) Isn’t she beautiful and glowy?

Feb

Sarah and Eric

lifestyle portraits / 1 Comment / February 23, 2009

I promised Sarah a while ago that I would take photos of her and Eric. When she said that he agreed to a photoshoot, I didn’t realise that he was blindly going along with it and and thought that one of her friends was bringing a point & shoot camera and taking a couple of pictures… Did I mention he hates having his picture taken? And that he had no idea what was actually going on until I showed up their doorstep with all of the equipment I own? Yes, well. In between every picture (and during most of them) was “Oh look! There’s my car… maybe I can escape,” or “I hate you, Sarah,” and, eventually, the look of terror disappeared. Despite all that we had a lot of fun (at least, Sarah & I did) and I am really happy with how these ones turned out, even though it might have been one of the fastest photoshoots I’ve ever done. Seriously, how gorgeous do they look together?

Feb

bellydance / 0 Comments / February 11, 2009

I’m creating quite the backlog of posts! I’m a bad blogger, I know. The winter has been dreary and stifling. It feels like nothing has exciting has been happening, but that’s not really true.

First on the list of backlogged posts:

Hakan is a fantastic professional bellydancer and a friend. To tell you the truth, he’s Pittsburgh’s finest male bellydancer and becoming quite well known for his sword performances. He’s a strong soloist and is also a member of the troupe Moquette Volante, which combines storytelling narrative with Middle Eastern bellydance. Awesome, huh? We actually started taking bellydancing classes at around the same time, way-back-when, and it’s inspiring to see what an involved, engaging performer he’s grown into.

There are really too many to show them all here- I have a hard time even picking my favorites. Check the rest out here.

Nov

Nature / Personal / 0 Comments / November 21, 2008

I’m excited! So much so that I’m not going to bother writing an introduction. May I proudly present: Shell Bailey Photography! Hooray! Now you can see my galleries & buy prints & keep up with my new work all in the same place! I will continue to post here, but that site has RSS feeds for my recently updated & the whatnot if you’d like to get the scoop on things first.

With the new website finally comes Gettysburg pictures. I mentioned how much fun I had, right? And how lovely it was?

My good friend Stephanie, bundled against the wind.

Click on the photo below to see the rest of the set. :)

Sep

bellydance / 0 Comments / September 17, 2008

Recently one of my very best friends and dance partner was in town. Her schedule is understandably very whirlwind whenever she’s in the area, so we were both very excited when we managed to put aside some time just to hang out and take pictures. We’ve been meaning to get some promotional shots done for our bellydance troupe’s new website, and jumped at the chance.

Chelsea was probably the first person to let me shoot her all those years ago. By now, we have a long-standing tradition of invading her parent’s farmhouse, throwing all of our clothes into a big heap on the bed, agonizing over costuming and makeup decisions for at least an hour, and then running outside and shooting hundreds of pictures. Who doesn’t like to play dress-up? Plus, she’s naturally gorgeous, and at this point is quite used to me taking pictures of every move she makes, so it’s hard not to pick up the camera while she’s around.

Can you blame me?

Click on the picture for the rest of the set. :)

Jun

Personal / 0 Comments / June 26, 2008

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