Anette Ball Photography

{Someone turned 1} Birmingham, Alabama child photographer

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:30:53 +0000

Mia turned 1 this month and I can’t believe how fast this past year went. This is the 3rd time she’s on the blog and she’s just as cute as always. Her mom had really planned out this session…awesome rocking chair, balloons, basket, letters, balls and even snacks. You should think it would be super easy, but it was not….yep, I said it, it was such a hard session:) Mia has just learned to walk and she wanted nothing to do with us….nothing. Her mom and I worked so hard for every single picture…singing, dancing, running around, putting her back in place, following her, being funny, and so on, but she really didn’t think we were funny at all. All she wanted to do was to look down so she could run and explore. I really can’t blame her….downtown is such a fun place to visit. Luckily our hard work payed of and we ended up with lots of adorable shots of her. I can’t get over how crazy blue her eyes are either. She’s such a beautiful little girl!!

Thank you Heather for working so hard during the session:)

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{Maternity} Birmingham, Alabama maternity photographer

admin — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:33:15 +0000

This is another session from this summer that I never got around to share much from. It’s my friend Lidija and she’s just gorgeous….pregnant or not:) I remember it was such a dark evening and we really wanted warm and backlitt, but I really like how the pictures turned out anyways. The dark blue dress was a perfect choice too.

She’s no longer pregnant, but she looked beautiful when she was. Don’t you agree?

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{Amazing} Birmingham, Alabama Senior photographer

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:40:36 +0000

I feel like I’m sounding like a broken record right now, but I’m going to say it again….I’m soooo unbelievably far behind on my blogging. How many times have a already said that…waaay to many:) I have a huge list of sessions I need to post to my blog and I’m feeling like I never will get there. Hopefully one day I will be caught up.

Anyways, I just had to come back to share some…sorry, a whole lot of pictures from this session. I really love how it turned out. I have mentioned before how seldom I get to shoot seniors/older teens and it’s just one of those things that I love to do. It’s something different for me and I would love to do it more often so. This girl is smart, funny, sweet, gorgeous and a million more things….and I thought the same about her mom!! I can’t get over how beautiful she is either. We had a few places in mind for her session and I’m so happy they went with both some urban and some “green” locations. The light was beautiful, but it was soooo hot. I don’t think I’ve ever sweated as much in a session before….I know I looked horrid in the end, but it was totally worth it:)

Isn’t she just drop dead gorgeous?

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{Close} Oxford, Alabama family photographer

admin — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:19:57 +0000

I’m so glad that I got to meet this awesome family this past weekend. They’ve been going though so much in the past several years and I’m so excited that I got to take some family pictures for them. We were supposed to have done this in January, but then Collin weren’t doing well so we had to wait until now. We met on a beautiful evening at Oxford Lake which neither of us had been before, but it came highly recommended by other people. The whole family did awesome and I got to say that Collin was such a trouper. I know he was so tired and didn’t feel good in the end, but he fought though it and did awesome. I love that they brought their service dog with them and he was so excited to be there with us. I really think we were able to capture what they really wanted in this session….which I’m guessing is being a “normal” family being happy together. Thank you so much for letting me take your pictures!!!

Collin has been diagnosed with Devic’s Disease which was something I’d never heard of and I had to look it up myself. If you want to read more about Collin’s story please do so HERE.

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{Perfect} Birmingham, Alabama maternity photographer

admin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:08:41 +0000

Even though this mamma is no longer pregnant I wanted to come back and show some more pictures from her session. I just love how they turned out and I think that urban maternity pictures are my all time favorites. She looked absolutely stunning and love all the colors we found downtown. I have mentioned it before, but I will mention it again….I love to do outdoors maternity pictures and if you know anyone who is pregnant you should talk them into getting some pictures taken:)

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{I’m 4} Birmingham, Alabama child photographer

admin — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:45:55 +0000

Sofia turned 4 just a few weeks ago and I had not gotten around to do her birthday pictures yet. Last year I did her with balloons and this year I wanted to capture her doing something she loves to do…paint:) She’s in love with finger paint and it makes her happy every time she gets to do it. I don’t have a studio and I’m all natural light so things like this is always a little harder to pull of then. Luckily I have garage doors and I just went to the local photography store and bought a 53 inch roll of white paper and taped it to the garage door and rolled it out until the ground was covered as well. Two strips fit perfectly. We had finger paint already at home and I let her do whatever she wanted to. It wasn’t long until she started painting on her self as well. I think that was her favorite part. She as so cute while doing it…singing, dancing and laughing. Everyone that was driving by was staring at us, but she didn’t care:) I think these turned out perfect. So much more fun than if I just dressed her up in a nice dress and took her somewhere for pictures…I just love seeing her have fun. She makes me smile and I’m totally head over heels in love with her:)

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{2 cuties} Birmingham, Alabama child photographer

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:58:09 +0000

I got to see these two again this weekend and I can’t believe how big and grown up they both look. He just turned 1 and she’s 4.5….I just love seeing my clients grow up in front of my camera. They both are so so so cute and they have such adorable personalities. It’s funny how sessions turn out sometimes. Their mom and I had all these plans of things we wanted to do during the session, but the kids didn’t want to participate in all the clothing changes and location changes we had planned out. The awesome thing is that they gave us about 30 minutes where they both were just awesome and really that’s all we needed. They both gave such an array of expressions and I can’t wait to finish up the session.

Aren’t’ they cute?

I just love how she’s biting her lip in this one…it just makes her look so grown up.

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{Happiness} Birmingham, Alabama family photographer

admin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:37:20 +0000

This is just one of those sessions that I LOVE!!! I’m so jealous that this is not Sofia and I since this is how I want to remember us….happy and relaxed:) I’m so excited that I finally got to do a mommy and son session. I had been wanting to do a session where I was just focusing on capturing a relationship and nothing else. He had just turned 2 and at that age you never know what can happen. Luckily he was in a great mood and loved hanging out with his mommy….who I adore by the way:) It really was so much fun and I just love everything about what we got. I think that they look so incredibly cute together and I love how they laugh….there were some serious belly laughs going on.

I think that at some point we all should do a session where we are really interacting with our child. I know that pictures like this is what I will love forever. Who wouldn’t want to look so happy and carefree while playing with their child? I know I would!!! If you want something like this for your session please let me know. I would love to do this for you as well.

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{Cute and so Fun} Birmingham, Alabama family photographer

admin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:48:33 +0000

I have wanted to show some more from this session for a while now and I finally got around to it. I love shooting families with older kids…just love it. They are easier, but then also harder:) This family is so beautiful and the two girls are so full of personality. This is such a huge post. but I really had a hard time to narrow it down. I just LOVE how their session turned out.

{6 months old} Birmingham, Alabama baby photographer

admin — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:00:11 +0000

I’ve been wanting to show a few pictures from this super cute session and I finally found the time to do it. I just can’t believe she’s already 6 months old. It feel like yesterday I took her mom’s maternity pictures and then a few weeks later her newborn pictures. Anyway, I think she’s adorable and she has the cutest little chubby cheeks….I just love them. She also has the prettiest eyes and I’m totally jealous:)

Aren’t they cute?

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