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Christmas in North Louisiana is always unpredictable as far as the weather goes. And that is exactly how this day was. There are was a big storm approaching that night so the wind was howling! I had the bright idea of bringing our tree outside to use as a prop.. it was real genius with howling wind. It fell over once and continues to threaten more falls. I decided to grab a few 15 pound weights to hold it down. HA!

If that wasn’t enough, the sun was coming in and out behind very dark clouds. I had to move the tree 3 times. Do things get better? Not yet.

Minutes before they arrived it started sprinkling even though the radar showed no rain. Nothing. I was not ok at this point.

But, alas, things did get better!! Once they arrived the sun peeked out of the clouds just long enough for us to get some pretty light in our images and then it went back behind the clouds for us to use the little Christmas set up I spent all that time on.

After our session was finished, John Paul and Haven got to meet our puppy Duke and they loved playing with him.

I would say, overall, it turned out to be a great day! These images are so sweet and fun! Love these kids!

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Xoxo,

Courtney

The Mason family is such a sweet group of people. They reached out to me to do their session and we were able to squeeze it in just before Christmas.

We met on our land here outisde of Homer, Louisiana on a chilly December day. I have done their photos a number of times and each time I am thankful to be able to capture this time for them.

The Masons are another family I have known all of my life. I have many memories of going over to Jennifer’s family’s house for Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations as a kid. We always had so much fun! We have photos of crawfish boils when Esther was just a baby. So many memories!

Pictured in a few of these photos is the sweet boy that Esther has baby sat since he was a newborn. He is like a member of the family to them so it was only fitting to let him in a few images. I’m so excited to share these with you and I hope you enjoy them!!

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Courtney

I had such a wonderful time with Emma and Andrew and their mom Laura during this session! It was so good to meet them and they were awesome in front of the camera!

The joys of meeting so many new faces this year has been such a wonderful blessing! I look forward to what the coming year holds!

We met for this sesion at Caney Lakes state park in Minden Louisiana. I do not shoot here often, but each time I do I am reminded of how beautiful it is! We do have to go on a little hike around the lake, but nothing too crazy.

I love how you can just walk a short distance and get such a hiuge variety in locations, light, and image results. This creates so much varitey within the final gallery. Everyone loves that!

I hope you can tell by these images just how sweet and respectful Emma and Andrew are. We got to chat about where they go to school, their church camp where Andrew won the most Christ-like award, and so much more! It was such an honor and priviledge to just learn about them. It is so wonderful to meet such awesome people!

Thank you again, Laura, for trusting me with such a task of documenting your family’s memories. I loved every second of our time together!!

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Courtney

Oh the Stephenson family!

How I loved meeting them!! We met for their sesion out on their land in North Louisiana.

After getting a tad lost and having to call them for help, we arrvied and got to meet and greet. I introduced myself to their sweet kiddos and we chatted a little about the land, where we should shoot, and all that fun stuff! It had just rained the day before so we were a little worried about it being muddy, but everything was perfect. The land was beautiful and so was the light! And that family? Oh they were fantastic!! I have never worked with kids who knew how to work that camera. hah!! They seriously all made my job SOOO EASY!!

After arriving on the land we came to find out that this was actaully where John grew up! How awesome is that?! I’m all about session locations having sentimental value- and this one did!!! It just makes the images that much more special.

We got started wtih everyone smiling and looking at the camera. I always call these the boring shots. HA! We get thes out of the way fast while we have everyone’s attention and then we get to the fun stuff!! I’m a firm believer that in order to make your sessions not feel like they are dragging by and like pulling teeth you HAVE TO MAKE IT FUN! We play games, have tickle fights, and just be plain goofy!! You may wonder how on earth we get good shots this way. Just trust me, you do!! The candid feel is how you capture their real personalities and get the little ones to trust you that it will be fun.

After gettng home and uploading these images I felt the joy and emotion all over again. There is nothing like getting home and getting to re-live a wonderful time all over again. I know I say this all the time, and it sounds cliche, but i just love that I get to do this as my job! It’s the most rewarding and incredible job ever. I’m so humbled and thankful, honored and grateful that people like the Stephensons entrust me with such a role in preserving their family memories. It’s something I do not take lightly.

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xoxo,
Courtney