Alayna {senior pictures}

I was so excited to do this shoot. For one, I love this girl and her family. I shot her sister Kayla’s wedding in October and I seriously feel part of their family now! They all came, which was really awesome to see them all again. I wanted to make it extra special, so I got some amazing friends/wedding vendors to help me out. Sam from Something Vintage Something Blue {who if you don’t know him is one of the NICEST people you will ever meet, really!} brought two of his fabulous vintage cars for us to use as props. They looked perfect with three dresses we borrowed from Betsy at Modest Couture by Elizabeth and fit Alayna perfectly. After we did her “normal” senior pictures in her regular clothes, my bestie Hannah Goodrich did her make up/hair for the vintage dresses and I seriously don’t know what Hannah does to make eyes pop they way she does, but Alayna’s eyes were popping! She looked so gorgeous! It was REALLY cold and poor Alayna was such a trooper through the whole thing, even when I had her step into what I thought was a few inches of snow and she was up to her knees in the snow seconds later! I took a picture right after-it’s the one where she looks like she is knee deep in snow off the side of the road laughing, thankfully 😀 Thanks everyone again for making this such a fun shoot!

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Magnifique Moms {workshop}

After a few things that have happened in my life recently, I decided I wanted to do a workshop that is focused on moms or other people that want to know how to take better pictures of their kids. With most of my kids pictures on my phone, I know I need to be better at capturing actual moments in their lives, rather that just pulling out my nice camera for them once a year to do portraits for our Christmas card! So many moms get decent cameras just to take nice pictures of their kids, but then they get frustrated with all the menus, buttons, the thick manual, so they give up. I hope that I can be better and hope that I can inspire some moms to be better at taking the time to capture those fleeting moments we have with our kids. Click on view full post for the details!

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