Whether its maternity, newborn, family, or another milestone in your life, my approach is the same: capturing what this season looks like in an authentic, artful way. My goal is to show you how even ordinary moments in your life are beautiful and deserve to be remembered.

Do you often find yourself so in the moment that you forget your camera even exists?

- 2023 Mom

Wow...as always Melanie your talent leaves me speechless! These are absolutely beautiful. Even despite having cranky kids you still managed to capture such beautiful moments of my family, as you always do.

Kind Words

Session Types

I offer three different kinds of sessions. All three can be applied to any season of life from couples to families. The main thing that changes is how raw and real you want this season captured. Each type is described below.

*half or partial days are also available

This option can also be great to document special days, like a birthday, first day of summer vacation, or a day with a fun event like a zoo trip or beach day.

This type of session is perfect if you want to remember this time of your life exactly as it was. One day when you're empty nesters, you can look back at these photos and remember how choatic and wonderful your home once was.

For this type of session, you go about your day as you normally would. From breakfast to bedtime, I hang out and document your routine*. Do you have cereal or pancakes for breakfast? What do your kids do after nap time? What does it look like when Dad gets home from work? There's no posing or prompting, just raw and true moments.

What better way to capture your family than to photograph all the little and big moments of a typical day in your life?

Day In the Life

Half/Partial Day:

Investment:

Full Day:

$695

$1195

Some more ideas for this type of session: seasonal activities like pumpkin carving, apple picking, gingerbread house decorating, snowman building, Easter egg hunt, gardening, birthday cake baking, or water balloon fight.

This session is perfect if you want to capture real moments with your family but want a bit more. structure. One day you can flip through these pictures and be taken back to the wonderful chaos of baking with little hands or racing your giggling son down the path. Moments that come and go way too fast.

This session comes with a little more planning but still no posing or prompts. It's a couple hours of your family doing something you all love to do. Whether that's baking some cookies, going for a hike and catching frogs, or building a fort in the living room, I'll be there for it all.

Nostalgia

Investment:

$495

If you're looking for a few images to put on your wall or use in your Christmas card, but still want to have fun with it and do more than just smile at the camera, this may be the session type for you. We can go to a park, the beach, or just be in your home. I'll guide you on where to stand and what to do with your hands while also holding space to capture the candid moments in between the poses.

For this type of session, I'll give more guidance. The aim is still to capture your family's genuine emotions and personalities, but it comes with more prompts like "everyone tickle mom" or "who here can run the fastest?" It's the session that's most similar to a traditional photoshoot.