Gabi's Smashcake Session

This being the first post post-contest lets celebrate someone's 1st.





Of course these are pictures from Gabi W's 1st Birthday Smashcake Session taken this past summer. Her father was the winner of my recent Comment Contest and his first daughter was first featured here.







In case you are not familiar, it has become a tradition of sorts to let your kid devour&destroy a cake and photograph them doing so in honor of their very first birthday. We actually did that with our little guy at his first birthday party several years ago, long before it became a "thing." While he wasn't officially getting his portrait taken while doing so, his smashcake was the ceremonial highlight of the party.

I dunno how this thing started - maybe it's because kids are not old enough to blow out candles yet. Or maybe it's just us parents allowing ourselves to allow our kids to make a huge mess without freaking out about it. Whatever the reason I love the idea and I love photographing Smashcake Sessions. Good clean dirty fun.



And hopefully this will hold over the W family until they cash in their prize...