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One of the best parts of my job is watching families grow. Today’s 6 month old, when I last saw him, was as his mama’s baby bump! His parents booked me for their maternity session with enough advance notice that they were one of the first people outside of my family who knew about my…

Many parents come to me knowing that they want portraits of their baby in the newborn stage. However, many don’t quite know whether they want the session to be in the studio or at their home. I often go through the pros and cons of each – head to this page where I break it…

Baby girl R. came to my studio in an unusual way, and a way that delights me. Her grandma called wanting to capture this special time for their whole family. I love it when grandparents want to be in the photos. I have so few pictures of myself as a kid with my grandparents and…

We shot today’s newborn at home, snuggled with his parents. Unbelievably, Little E. is over a year old as I write this. I was honored to be his newborn photographer at a moment of our collective innocence, in January 2020. The world seems a bit different now, more gray, as we await the spring of…

For today’s blog post I’d like to take a moment to reflect and recount on my path to becoming a photographer, and the ways I’ve changed over the years. In about 2006 in a moment of uncertainty about my career in art history, I took a photography course as a way to explore different disciplines…

I’m finally catching up on blogging my 2020 sessions! I have a wall of bookings from September through mid-December so while that is a good reminder to ensure you are thinking about your 2021 sessions early, it is also to say that I barely have time to blog. Late last fall I started to provide…