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You can visit Santa at the mall. You can find outdoor Santa mini sessions, elaborate studio experiences and everything in between. And every November, social media fills up with photographers offering their own version of Santa photos. So how do you choose? After photographing families for more than 17 years and creating my own Santa […]
There isn’t one “right” way to dress your family for Christmas photos, but there are definitely a few things that make putting everyone together easier and photograph beautifully. And after photographing families for years, I’ve learned that the best Christmas family photo outfits aren’t necessarily the most expensive, the most perfectly styled or the ones […]
I have a confession to make. One of my favorite pictures with Santa isn’t a photograph I’ve taken for a client. It’s a photo of my own daughter. She’s literally sliding off Santa’s lap mid-scream. And I LOVE it. Because now that my kids are grown, I don’t look at that photograph and think, What […]
I don’t do anything ordinary. That’s pretty much how I’ve approached my photography business from the beginning, so when my clients with young children started asking me if I offered holiday and Santa sessions, I knew I didn’t want to throw up a Christmas backdrop, hire someone in a Santa suit and move families through […]
Christmas feels different when your kids are little. I know that now more than ever because my own kids are grown. I love Christmas with my family today, but oh, what I wouldn’t give to go back for just a little while to those years when there was so much magic and wonder. When Santa […]
