This last monday evening, er wee hours of the morning, I had the rare privilege of photographing the birth of my friends’ daughter, Marion Annabel. After having Harlow — and the blessing of having our emotions and experience documented — I knew that capturing this moment would be an incredible gift to others. I had mentioned to Ashley about my dream to someday become a birth photographer, and she immediately said, “okay I’m due December 15!”
To say I was nervous was an understatement — I told them I would capture these moments, but what if nothing even turned out? I’m super hard on myself. I’m excited to grow and improve, but I do know that I tear up every time I look through these images, so I’m hopeful that some emotion was captured and is portrayed through these photos.
A warning to you all — these photos are completely fine for work, but well, there are just a lot of photos. {I had such a hard time choosing!}
Sorry, not sorry.
xo.
Dustin and Ashley, thank you for allowing me to be present as Marion Annbel entered this world. I was and still am immensely honored to have taken these photos and been there with you. We love her so much already!
Holy amazing photos, woman!! I now want to have another baby, AND come be your neighbor so you can document it. They were so beautiful!!
Do it!!!! Have another and let me photograph! :)
Kacia, I am seriously so proud of you. You captured the emotion, the struggle, the joy just so perfectly! I wish more than anything that we had hired a birth photographer for Wes, even though he ended up coming via c-section, to get it all documented.
Wanna come to Arkansas and get the next one for us (whenever that is)? :)
I totally would!!!!!! I seriously seriously would!!
I teared up! These are gorgeous.
xo, Amy!
These are absolutely beyond incredible! What a wonderful gift you gave this family, these awesome photographs for them to always be able to look at so they can remember those first moments of their baby’s birth. I would hire you in a heartbeat. :)
Ashley is my sister and was present at two of my births. We were blessed to have a photographer at one of them and the pictures are priceless.
You have been able to do an exceedingly magnificient job and personally want to let you know that you have found your calling. They are stunning and it takes the right person to be able to do this kind of photography and you did it so well.
This is my sister! How wonderful to be able to feel like I was there even though I live about 3000 miles away. Thank you for capturing it all! I cried!
I am Ashley’s aunt and am happy that I could see the lovely pictures – thank you for taking them for all of us who are so far away and couldn’t be around our wonderful Ashley and of course, Dustin!
These are amazing! You have GOT to keep going with this– what an awesome talent and incredible gift to share with the world! Congrats!!
Truly outstanding!!! Even though Ashley is my wife’s sister and I care deeply for her and her family, I would say that anyone who views these pictures will be able to feel the story. Awesome job, Kacia!
beautiful!!!!
Oh K, these are so precious! What an experience this must have been! You are so amazing! Love you!
so so beautiful and special.
Kacia, these are fantastic! My sister-in-law just asked me to photograph their birth, which will take place within the next 48 hours. I’m an amateur and nervous they won’t turn out, but what a beautiful experience. I have a feeling it’ll be hard to mess up.
PS- I think you found one of your callings here!
I stumbled on your blog by accident..have no idea who you are or the family who gave birth and I am sitting here crying!! What a beautiful portrayal of this wonderful family event! You are a gifted photographer and have told a beautiful intimate story with your skills….Best of success!!
Kacia! Another skill?!? Girl, you are good!!! Your creativity oozes out of you! These were fabulous!!! xoxo
These are just beautiful!
Oh Kacia, these are the most beautiful birth photos I’ve ever seen! You captured everything. I’m nowhere close to having children yet but I know when I do I want photos to remind me of all the beauty and the struggle of getting that sweet baby here.
These are perfect. Thank you (and Dustin & Ashley!) for sharing these amazing moments with us!
I’m late to the party but I LOVE these photos! I’m due with my first baby in a few weeks and can only hope that someone takes photos that capture the moments as well as these do. Also, I now want to knit a sweet little hat so I can put it on the baby immediately.
Congratulations!! You all look so blissful :)
Strange thing. I had a few friends find the 6th photo on here and share it with my wife and I asking who we had take our pictures during the birth. It truly confused me at first because 1. We didn’t have anyone taking our pictures and 2. Who would be sneaking and taking pictures of it? Then, I finally realized that that wasn’t us in the photo lol you guys are our doppelgangers from the side!
that’s so funny!!! the photo that was on buzzfeed right?