Capturing milestones I can’t believe this sweet girl is already nine months old!  It seems like yesterday I was photographing her newborn session.  I love capturing milestones throughout baby’s firsts year and I’m so lucky to be apart of this girls year. When is the best time to schedule milestone sessions? I always recommend scheduling baby […]

Homer Glen, IL Holiday Mini Sessions! I just love working with the “W” family especially for their holiday mini sessions!  The three of them are the kindest and loveliest people to work with and I truly enjoy spending time with them every year during their Christmas themed mini session.  This baby boy is a spunky […]

Baby Plan First Birthday Session I can NOT believe this sweet girl is ONE already!  It was just yesterday that her parents came into my studio for their maternity session.  They were SO excited and thrilled to be having a baby and I remember them being so incredibly happy.  I have had the pleasure of […]

Natural Baby Led Session This baby’s gallery just makes me smile from ear to ear and I enjoyed this natural baby led session so much.  Her sweet little expressions and smiles are just the cutest and I know you will all say awe as you look through these baby photos.  I love artistic and photo […]

Baby B This incredible baby boy came to visit me at my Homer Glen studio a few weeks ago and I had such a great time documenting all of his special milestones.  He happens to be my second cousin and the entire time, all I kept thinking about was the fact that he reminds me […]

HELLO BABY MAMAS! My name is Laurie Baker, the photographer behind Elle Baker Photography and I am a Chicago baby and family photographer specializing in, you guessed it, baby photography!  I enjoy other niches of photography as well, but my heart fell in love almost a decade ago with everything baby photography!   I have photographed […]

Six Month Milestone Sessions This baby should be named Chicago’s cutest baby!  This sweet babe was a dream baby to photograph.  Between his beautiful brown hair, long eye lashes, endless smiles, and precious coos, he was just perfect.  I enjoy six month milestone sessions so much and look forward to seeing every newborn client back […]

Birthday Session at the Homer Glen Studio! Happy Birthday Baby M!  It has been such a wonderful year watching you grow from your newborn session to your 6 month sitter session to your twelve month birthday session!  We had such a great time at this birthday session at the Homer Glen studio! Laurie is now […]

Belly to Baby Package Oh!  This little boy just stole my heart at his newborn session and again at his baby milestone session today.  I loved having the L Family back in the studio and it was such a pleasure documenting his 7 month milestone.  We had a lot to celebrate with his special milestones […]

I have a very special announcement (below) but first I want to explain my philosophy on the art of the unposed newborn and what this means to me. The art of the unposed newborn Newborn photography has come such a long way over the last decade.  Remember our swaddled hospital photos?  It slowly moved from […]