I know y’all are used to seeing her on my blog by now. I love having her here. She’s so cute and sweet.
I don’t normally photograph birthday parties, but for faithful clients and friends I will do just about anything.
Little Abigail had the sweetest strawberry themed birthday party and I loved being there to document it for her family. I know how stressful it is to plan a party, host the party and try to take the pictures of it as well. Too much on a plate at one time. I loved that I could take this part off their plates and just let them enjoy their first birthday party with their baby girl. How precious is that?!
Lemuel is big into fishing. We knew when we scheduled his session that we wanted to have his portraits somewhere to where we could incorporate his hobbies. That is something that I think is so important with seniors. Adding in elements of what they enjoy doing. Whether it be sports, fishing or hunting for the guys or cheer, photography, painting, flowers, etc for the girls. Adding in elements that are them make their portraits more personal. I’m all about that.
For this session we met at Lake Bistineau in Doyline Louisiana. Y’all know this by now that this is my favorite location for portraits. The park has such a Louisiana feel to it. I love the moss in the trees.
We knew we wanted to get out in the kayak for some of Lemuel’s portraits. After getting the more formal wear out of the way, he changed into his fishing clothed and we headed out for the water. It was so fun to just let him do his thing while I photographed him. It’s kind of hard to do much posing out in the water on a kayak after all. Haha!!
These images are so fun and so Lemuel. So glad we were able to capture him and some of the things he enjoys.
We went to a few different green houses in Minden Louisiana and of course I brought along my camera. Why not?! Everything is content. Haha!!
Actually, I really have always wanted to photograph inside a greenhouse. So this was the best time to take advantage of being there with my girls. They didn’t love me making them stop to take their pictures but it was worth it, at least to me.
We went to Culpepper’s nursery and Cone’s garden supply in Minden. Both had a beautiful assortment of plants. Cone’s had the best flowers while Culpepper had beautiful baskets arranged. Both were great!
This is something fun I have never done before. A gender reveal session. What a fun way to announce the gender of your baby you are expecting.
This one was a special one. After three girls in a row, of course they were hoping for a boy. Low and behold it’s another girl. Hey, girls are so fun and loveable! We should know, all we have is girls in our family, aside from my one brother. The more the merrier is our motto I guess. Haha!!!
This was so fun to see everyone’s reaction and to celebrate with them. Congrats to the Conroy family!!!
This family holds such a special place in my heart. I have known them for my entire life. I grew up with their kids, spent the night at their house as a child. They are like family to me.
To be able to photograph them was such an honor. I love being able to document families, of all ages. You see a lot of my work with young families, and I absolutely adore working with the little ones. But families with older kids are just as important to document. There is nothing like family portraits to be able to hand down from generation to generation.
This location holds such a special place in this family’s heart. The lake is their getaway, their relaxation. To have their portraits done here was the perfect place.
We live out in the country in North Louisiana on 10 acres of land. We have a large open field and each year in the fall and the spring, we have wildflowers growing in the field. It is a photographers dream. I always try to make it a point to photograph my girls in the annuals wildflowers we have. Typically in the spring it is the Wisteria. However, this year was weird. Everything bloomed nearly a month early (some things were a whole month early) which lead to a frost killing them before I could photograph them. Hence the reason I do not have Wisteria portraits this year. WAHHHHH
Instead, we have yellow wildflowers. Hey, they are cute too.
My girls were outside playing. I ran inside, grabbed my camera (with only minutes of light left) and captured these seasonal flowers with them. Was is the best lighting? No. Were they in cute clothing? No. But I will cherish these forever. I love my sweet girls.
Possibly the best set of photos
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This family session was a challenge simply because of the harsh light that we were faced with. It was a breeze because of the stunning family I was able to work with. Haritha and Brian were some of the sweetest people and their kiddos are absolutely adorable! Photographing them was a dream!!
This session posed some challenges I had never experience in a family session before. We had very harsh light but thankfully we have a B-52(!!!) to help shield us from the sun. The only down side was that there were people everywhere. That was a little tricky!
Overall, these images are some of my absolute favorite images I have taken. The love and connection between this family is seriously the sweetest. Sweet little girl was a big fan of her daddy and I so loved capturing that connection.
Sometimes it can be tricky with littles and stressful, even, for parents. Worrying if their little ones will cooperate for pictures. I always strive to make these family sessions toddler-led. I give lots of grace, and have lots of patience. I don’t force any poses on them. I just let them lead and I document them. Most of the time they begin to trust me and warm up. That’s when I can truly capture who they are as their own little selves. I just love and adore that process. I know poses where everyone is looking at the camera are important, so we get those too. But your family, simply being your family, is something that is just as equally important.
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This session has been talked about between Mariah and myself for a while now. We hoped fro maternity portraits when she was expecting this precious baby, we talked about portraits after he was born. Neither of those worked out with our schedules. They live in Virginia and I live in Louisiana so it isn’t just moving something from one weekend to the next. When they came to Louisiana this past time we knew we had to make it work. My calendar was open so we snuck in this session and even with location change and time changes, we made it happen. I couldn’t be more pleased and in love with these images. Sweet Malachi was such a little smiler. I love his precious dimples.
I love being able to capture these precious times with families. Preserving forever these moments with their littles. They grow so very fast. I’m so thankful for each and every single family I get to document.
I can’t believe little Seth has graduated his first year portrait plan. Oh how fast time flies.
It is such a joy to get to photograph these precious growing babies. Preserving these memories for mamas makes my heart sing. It is a joy that never gets old. Babies change so much in their first year, it’s just crazy. Having special portraits at each big milestone is so very, very special.
When Seth was still in his mommy’s belly, we met at SAU campus for their maternity portraits. One year later, we are back again for his first birthday portraits. I just love the way this worked out.
We were initially going to meet at a baseball field for his first birthday portraits but with the rain that we have constantly been having, everything was so wet. Last minute we made the call to switch to SAU campus and I’m honestly so glad we did. These images are so precious.
Little Seth, you’re a sweetheart. The many faces you make are so stinking adorable. You are the sweetest baby boy. Happy first birthday, little man.
As a photographer in the Shreveport Louisiana area, I have taken my fair share of portraits. I get to capture moments and memories for growing families that could be so easily forgotten if it weren’t for the photographs to remember the details.
I not only find value in taking portraits for others, I also realize the value to be IN the photos too.
You see, as a mom, we are always the ones taking the photos. We have cute photos of the kiddos and dad but so few of us with them. Or even more so few of just us and the hubs. Why? Well, who’s going to take it??? Or maybe we don’t like the way our bodies look after having kids. Maybe we just don’t even think about it.
The beautiful thing about family photography is that you don’t even have to think about it! I will direct every single moment of your session.
But why is it so important to actually be in photos?
Well, let’s think about when you were growing up. Do you remember what your parents looked like when you were 3? I sure don’t. But I can look back at the countless images my mom has taken and printed and I can see what they looked like.
I can see moments of them with me on my birthdays, helping me put together my new toys. I can see the joy on my face in one photo where my dad is helping me with a fishing pole.
It is so important for our children to have a legacy to look back on and see these special times in their lives that maybe they wouldn’t remember if it hadn’t been documented. But what’s even more special is that if in those same photos they can see mom and dad, loving them and loving each other.
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