There’s a family I photographed a while back that I still think about. They’d been going back and forth for weeks. I could tell from the emails. They loved the work, but the newborn photography cost gave them pause. They were first-time parents, figuring out a new budget that now included diapers and daycare and […]

You’re going to blink and they’ll be different. Not in the dramatic, poetic way people say at baby showers. In the very real, Tuesday-morning way — where you come in from making coffee and your newborn’s face has somehow changed overnight, and you can’t quite remember what they looked like the day before. This is […]

The newborn stage is one of the shortest seasons you’ll ever experience as a parent, and somehow it always passes faster than expected. One minute they’re tiny and curled up on your chest, and the next they’re outgrowing newborn clothes and you’re wondering where the time went. A dad once told me, three years after […]

Your go-to newborn photo tips for a calm, beautiful session in Raleigh, NC. So you just found out you’re expecting, you’ve added approximately forty-seven things to your to-do list, and somewhere between “buy a crib” and “figure out how maternity leave works” you typed “Raleigh newborn photographer” into Google. Hi. You found me. Let’s make […]