Spring/Summer Lil' Sessions

This Spring and Summer I want to offer a little something different.

Not quite a mini session, but also not a full lifestyle family shoot. Just a lil’ session. Maybe you want to document the family around the pool, or cooking out in the backyard. Maybe a trip to the creek, or a picnic dinner. You want the moment captured, but in a short and sweet kinda way.

If this sounds interesting, drop me a line. This isn’t like the fall minis where you have to rush to sign up for an available spot. We’ll talk about what weekend or evening might work for your family, what kind of photos you had in mind, maybe it involves ice cream, maybe not, and we’ll make it happen!

Lil’ Sessions are $350 for 30 mins

(if you’d like to add-on a roll of 35mm film to your session an additional $50 will be added on to cover cost of film + developing)

film + digital family sessions

for the past year or so I’ve been photographing families on a mix of both digital + film cameras. while I could write paragraph after paragraph about just why I love adding film to a family shoot, I think being that I’m much better with images, I should just show you the difference between what I get with each.

it kinda speaks for itself…

often I’ll use my film cameras to achieve a more painterly feel to the images. whether that be with double exposures, shutter drags, or blurring on purpose, it’s a vast difference from the absolute clear crispness of digital photography…

sometimes the film images differ simply by having a different lens, or using black and white film…

and while I do edit my digital images to more closely match the film scans, nothing quite beats the beautiful glow and grain of true film images!

the way I look at it, is that just like how sometimes a painter will combine acrylic paint on top of watercolors, photographers too can bring a little extra something by combining a variety of mediums.

shooting film makes me really pause, look at the scene I’m about to take a picture of, think about all the settings on my camera, think if there’s something I can do to push the boundaries a little, and THEN actually take a photo. it all has to be correct in the camera because you generally can’t edit your way out of a mistake on film! on the flip side, digital let’s me cover all the shots without adding a million dollars to the cost of a session if it was all to be shot on film. each has it’s place, and I work completely different when I hold each camera up to my eye. It’s kind of magical!

not gonna lie though… film has my heart!

looking back at 2025...

Last year, for the first time in many years, I really made an effort to document our every days. I kept a little point and shoot film camera handy at nearly all times, and would snap when the moment struck me. No overthinking, no obsessing about perfection, just capturing it before the feeling slipped away. Looking back now I’m so glad I did! Also, clearly Clementine loves being photographed, while Penny tolerates it. They are so beautifully different!

shot using a mix of the Olympus mju ii, the Canon 1v, and the Pentax 67. My three ride or dies!