Glowy Golden Hour Family Photos
When I photographed them a year ago, their littlest little man was only a couple months old, and their bigger little man wasn’t all that interested in his baby brother. This time, things were a little...
View ArticleFamily’s First Portraits in the Park
Sometimes kids are enthralled by the camera. Sometimes they would just rather chew on things (hands, feet, parents). And you know what? That’s okay, too. Whatever is authentic to every kiddo is what we...
View ArticleKids + Portrait Sessions: How to Make the Experience Enjoyable and Easy – and...
“My kid(s) are kind of a handful.” So goes the refrain I hear from nearly every parent or grandparent booking a portrait session. Kids and cameras mix great — but it isn’t always easy on the adults or...
View ArticleLilly Pulitzer Sunrise Beach Portraits in Ormond Beach
This winter in Florida hasn’t been much of a winter at all. Balmy, beautiful days and balmy, beautiful nights. Oh — and gorgeous sunrises. A couple months ago, just as fall was wrapping up and winter...
View ArticleWinter Park Family Portraits in the Garden
Way back in April 2012, I met Claire and Bill in the springtime, for their engagement session. If you want a serious blast-from-the-past moment, you can check it out on my old archived blog, here. But,...
View ArticleBreezy Daytona Beach Family Portraits at Sunrise
It was a beautiful, blustery morning on the beach last month when we headed down onto the beach in Daytona for sunrise family photos. The whole family was together for Easter, and with three out of...
View ArticleLifestyle Family Vacation Portraits in New Smyrna Beach
For the fourth time in six years, I had the pleasure of getting to see this family play in front of my camera during their New Smyrna Beach vacation. It’s been so much fun, watching these kids grow and...
View ArticleWhy Family Portraits are a Great Part of Any Vacation
Recently, my inbox has almost exploded with inquiries from families, couples, and high school seniors coming to Daytona Beach, or Ormond Beach, or New Smyrna Beach for vacations. These are people who...
View ArticleHow to Have a Great Portrait Session in Any Weather
Okay, so that title may be slightly misleading. I promise I’ll never try to convince any of my portrait clients that they’ll have a great session in the middle of a hurricane. That said — today’s a...
View ArticleBaby Sister’s One Month Portraits
Today is National Best Friends Day. And so it seems fitting to share these newborn portraits today, showcasing my more-than-half-a-lifetime best friend and her new baby girl and family. At her own...
View ArticlePastel Sunrise Daytona Beach Shores Family Portraits
The softest of sunrises watercolored the sky for this sweet family during their Daytona Beach Shores portrait session last month. They told me they try to do family portraits twice a year, because they...
View ArticleStormy Sunrise Daytona Beach Shores Family Portraits
We met up at sunrise, in front of the condo where this family has been vacationing ever since their dad was the same age as his kids are now. The twins were yawning when they came down onto the beach,...
View ArticleGlowy Ponce Inlet Family Portraits at Sunset
We thought it was going to rain. Because, oh boy, it had been raining. All day. All week. Right up until about twenty minute before we were scheduled to shoot. So we drove down to the inlet, and we...
View ArticleOrmond Beach Family Portraits at Sunrise
When a big extended family shows up with siblings and cousins and two sets of grandparents all in the mix, it makes for a really fun morning! This sweet family, on their annual summer beach vacation,...
View ArticlePalm Coast Family Portraits Beneath the Trees and By the Sea
Beautiful things can happen when you’re willing to brave the summer heat and humidity (and dragonfly-sized mosquitoes) for the sake of family portraits. That’s what we found out when we met up for...
View ArticlePonce Inlet Family Vacation Photography
They came from the desert, so they wanted to capture some family portraits that looked a whole lot of different from their everyday scenery. Instead of red rocks and cacti and canyons, they wanted...
View ArticleWatercolor Beach Portraits at Ponce Inlet
In their family’s history, they’d never taken a beach vacation. This summer, they rectified that with a week in Florida. But our schedules overlapped for only a few hours during their trip here — we...
View ArticleRomantic Sunset Portraits on the Water
They’d gotten married in the late spring, but they hadn’t gotten wedding portraits — and so, a few months later, they wanted to dress up again and get those pictures as their marriage was still just...
View ArticleDreamy Pastel Ponce Inlet Beach Family Photos
They wanted beach portraits — and although, as a photographer herself who knows all too well that we can’t control the weather during a shoot, she really hoped they would end up with a soft, pastel...
View ArticleOrmond Beach Maternity Portraits in the Marshes
If this wetlands session looks vaguely familiar…it might be because we did almost the same shoot, almost exactly three years earlier, when these two were engaged and eagerly anticipating their life...
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