I can't believe it's been over a year since I've blogged anything - but this was something to dust of the ol' blog for. The studio was something I dreamed of opening since I started photography, however I never thought it would actually happen. When I walked into this space when it was a retail location (in January of 2021) I was kicking myself for not finding it and renting it first. Then, come October 2021, when I heard it was available, I KNEW I had to jump on the opportun

I gotta say, I'm usually pretty hands-on for newborn session, snuggling and calming your baby...but with the hands-off COVID sessions it's been pretty hard! I must say that the parents I've guided through swaddling their babies though, have been PROS! I did not swaddle Colton for his newborn session, because his squishy 6-week goodness was too delicious to hide. The pro about doing late newborn photos means a little extra chunk, and a little more smiles. I'm not complaining a

Have you ever seen a baby have so much hair, that the hospital actually gives the parents a comb?? I'm not talking a "baby brush" - I mean a full-sized, adult comb. I have a lot a of newborns who don't want to sleep their whole session, where the parents panic and say "oh my goodness, have you ever dealt with this before?!" my answer is "yes...I am more surprised when a baby DOES sleep the whole session." William was one of those babies who did sleep his whole session - and I

I started doing newborn photography back in November of 2015. With being new to the industry, I just followed suit; putting babies in buckets and bowls, shaping them like clay into different positions, pulling out my hair as I tried to get them to sleep... It's not that I didn't know how to do this type of newborn photography (see below), it's that it was stressful, and I was never happy with the outcome - inevitably leading me to falling out of love with photography. As of O