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I’m excited to announce that I am partnering with a local pastry chef, Selvia Tjandra-Stothers, offering smash cakes to my one year portrait clients! If you want to go simple and choose from a few options, she’s custom created some you can find below to choose from. She is hugely talented and can also make…

This mama was so gorgeous and pregnant with twins! We had her in studio for her maternity photo session a little earlier than I normally do. Normally I shoot mamas at 28-33 weeks, but since twin moms’ bellies grow faster she came in around 24 weeks. She had a few things she requested I capture,…

The first year of your baby’s life is hard. One could argue it’s the hardest. That could especially be true when you are a first time parent, without a road-map for this tiny human. I’m not going to call it until I experience having a teenager, personally. That said, infants are truly hard. Therefore, when…

A good percentage of my clients are first time parents, and sometimes I’ll get a second kiddo in studio or at their home. Every now and then I get the rare client that brings in a third baby! Today’s baby was that rarer of clients, the third kiddo. I think it’s just second and third…

I was going through my holiday portfolio the other day when I remembered this little guy’s cake smash session! Since we ended the session with a few Christmas-themed photos, the fact that we mainly shot cake smash images somehow slipped my brain! This little dude’s session was actually awesome, and his mom brought the buffalo…

So I have to admit that technically this session is a holiday portrait session. I also need to point out that we started indoors but moved outside after about 20 minutes. It became clear that Mr. H.’s two year old personality cannot be contained by a studio. He wanted to run! He was an energetic,…