Arnan was 14 days old today, and I went to his parent’s house north of Johannesburg for his newborn photoshoot this morning.

The title of this post was a toss up between the way that I usually title my baby blog posts, and using the email heading used by Nico whenever he emailed me about the shoot… “Flashing the Olwagen Babe”.  Hehe, love it!

You may recognise Arnan’s gorgeous mom and dad, Nico and Victoire, from their maternity shoot I shot a while ago at the Johannesburg Zoo.

He was a dream to photograph, and I could have spent many more hours there just getting more… he was so good!  Once Victoire got him to sleep while I set up and chatted to Nico, he just slept… he didn’t budge.  He only started niggling again when we were ending the portraits against the black.  I was most impressed, because he is past the magic 10 day mark!

Because he was sleeping so nicely, we started off the shoot using the piano… how cool!! And the blanket he’s lying on is a special one… it was knitted by his great grandmother who knitted all her grandchildren baby blankets before she died and it’s been lying in storage waiting.

I just have to say that this pose… totally natural… how adorable?!

And check his long long eyelashes out!!