Caitlin Page Photography

Caitlin Page's blog holds a small but telling piece of her newborn portfolio: a session for baby Maddie, done in a Rochester home in the dead of winter, after having already documented the family's maternity portraits. That pattern -- following a couple from engagement through maternity into their baby's earliest days -- runs through much of her work, which centers on New Hampshire weddings and families. She describes photographing newborns as one of her favorite parts of the job specifically because she often already knows the parents from an earlier session, which changes the tone of the sitting from a first meeting into something closer to catching up with friends. Her approach to newborn work is unposed and documentary rather than tightly styled: siblings get included rather than staged out of frame, and a baby's actual personality -- including, in Maddie's case, a stubborn refusal to nap on cue -- becomes part of the story rather than something to edit around. She works primarily in natural light, whether that's a nursery window or a living room in the early afternoon. For Rochester families who've already worked with Caitlin Page for an engagement or maternity session, booking her again for newborn portraits keeps the same visual thread running through a family's early milestones; for families meeting her for the first time, her blog offers a fairly transparent look at what an actual session with her looks like.