After the birth of my sons, I shifted my focus to capturing families.  I didn’t see it coming, but it was a necessary transition from a busy schedule of shooting weddings (think pumping in a reception venue restroom!), but as a mom, I found that portraits came naturally to me and my boys have trained me well in the art of capturing busy bodies!  This next transition comes with a focus on meeting families needs.  I want to help families preserve their photography by offering Full Service Sessions. This is a response to a growing concern that I’ve heard echoed over the past decade: organizing and printing digital photos is overwhelming.  That overwhelm leads to procrastination and then procrastination to an underlying anxiousness that we won’t be able to find our photos when we finally have time to do something with them.

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As your photographer, I want to simplify this process and am dedicated to helping you as little or as much as you like from planning your shoot through delivery of your artwork.  By scheduling an online or in-person consultation, I am able to help with selecting images and choosing the right products to highlight them.  Or if you prefer to place your order online, all of our collections and a la carte items are available in your online gallery.  With Full Service Sessions, your whole session fee is a product credit (proofs are no longer included with the session, but are available for purchase).  For any product ordered, you receive the corresponding retouched image/s as a high-resolution 4×6 file/s.  And if you just love having all of the photos, the complete set of high-resolution 4×6 proofs is available for $150.

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My goal in this shift to a full-service experience is to simplify the process of displaying artwork in your home and ensure the highest quality in prints and photographic products.  To celebrate this new change for 2021, I’m offering free shipping/delivery for the rest of the year!

If you aren’t sure about how you’d like to display images from your session, one of my favorite products to preserve your images is the Leather Bound Album, available in 10- or 20-pages, starting at $400, so there is no pressure to invest beyond your session fee—my goal is to provide a more satisfying experience.

family portrait album

I’ve written a lot about how I manage my own family’s photos (both sessions and day-to-day photos) and would be happy to share those tips with you if you want to learn more—please just ask.  Being able to look back at the story of my family brings me a sense of peace and joy.