Hilary Mercer! Photography

Featured: Beyond and Beyond

hildog — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:32:42 +0000

Today my engagement session with Joie and Cody is featured with another blog! Hooray! I absolutely love what they had to say.

Lord, have sweet Mercer! HA!Love it

http://beyondbeyond.co.uk/blog/

Laila Rose | Welcome to the World!

hildog — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:56:53 +0000

About a month ago I put out a casting call for local soon to be mommies. Rachel was suggested to me and she was due super soon. I pitched her my idea and she wanted to do it. Which made me ecstatic. Super excited and nervous since I have never been in the same room as a person having a baby.

Rachel text me at 9:45 Sunday night the 29th saying her water broke. I immediately grabbed some snacks, water and gathered up my things to head to the hospital in Fayetteville, NC. As I got there she was having contractions and they were close to putting in an epidural. Soon after the epidural Rachel was feeling .. well she wasn’t feeling much which is great. Her labor progressed quite quicker than I had anticipated which isnt a bad thing at all.

Feel free to watch the slideshow BIG by clicking in the right hand corner at the bottom.

Laila Rose was born August 30, 2010 at 4:57 AM She weighed in at 7 lbs. 11 oz. and is 20 inches long.

I love that perfect pink skin!Rachel & David, Thank you so much for allowing me to share all of those special moments with you and your family.

Featured: Forget Me Knot Weddings!

hildog — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:03:12 +0000

Today! I am featured on Forget Me Knot weddings! I am super excited and super honored! Thank you so much! Go take a gander..

http://www.forgetmeknotweddingsblog.com/

Safe Travels Rockets!

hildog — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:07:00 +0000

Neil’s squadron deployed.

Little Isabella is getting big! She’s at 2 months now.

The next night some more of the guys left.

Barbara looks nervous and excited!

little William knows to look at me ;)

I like that flag.

and they’re gone.

San Diego

hildog — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:07:39 +0000

A few weeks ago I went to San Diego to shoot an engagement session and here are a few of my favorites just rolling around town.Some fishermen caught this off the Oceanside Pier. Still dont know what it was.But apparently it was pregnant. They had cut slits in its belly and was throwing the babies over the pier. Odd.Classy.The next day I got to hang out with my friend Giselle. I hadn’t seen her since I shot her wedding last October. We went down to La Jolla cove and hung out. It was really neat. Its also where she got engaged at. :)

she was trying to make it past the boulder

SEALS!

Did you know this existed!??!?!? How cool is that! We got a geocache here too so that makes 3 for Cali!

Bob Hope Memorial

She couldnt decide if she wanted to clap or just be excited!He liked meS U P A modelAs we were leaving we saw this guy and he made me laugh :)up the skirt and everything

goodbye.

hildog — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:56:49 +0000

Madison | Goldsboro Childrens Photographer

hildog — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:00:16 +0000

Yesterday I posted a session I had with Madison’s brand new little sister Shelby. You might remember me mentioning that she didn’t want to go to sleep. Well why she was getting her grub on to make her tired I got to hang out with Madison. She is a little ham.

my most favorite photo of her ever.

Shelby | Goldsboro Newborn Photography

hildog — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:00:58 +0000

Meet 10 day old Shelby. She took a while to show up (poor Mom.) You might remember Shelby’s mom Nikki from a few weeks ago.

This cradle is a family heirloom of theirs. Nikki’s grandfather made it for her when she was a baby and its been passed around the family for a while and now its back where it started, well sorta. Again, I love that a blanket I made is making an appearance in the photos :)

Call me!

She fought sleep the whole session but finally she managed to drift off.

something is not like the rest

gotta love all those little details, they aren’t that little forever