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Looking for modern and effortlessly easy ways to display your family photos after a session? Here are four simple and stylish ways to hanging family photos – and we’re about to walk you through it with concrete examples and photos!…

Alexandra, Stephan, and their four precious boys spent the evening with me at Prophetstown State Park in West Lafayette, Indiana recently for their summer family photo session and I’m still swooning over the gorgeous moments we captured! Now don’t get me wrong, it was probably one of the most beautifully chaotic and crazy hours spent as a photographer chasing 4 little boys around WAY past…

Ally’s adorable first birthday cake smash at Kelly McPhail’s downtown Lafayette photography studio featured gold floral hoops with palm leaves and pink blooms. She wore a boho cream lace romper and floral halo with a gorgeous naked cake from Something Blue Bakery here in Lafayette, Indiana. Interested in a 1st birthday cake smash? Inquire today!…

“Say Cheese” We’ve all said it before as we attempt to get a somewhat decent photo of our kiddos and yet it usually results in a half-hearted or fake smile. Telling your kids to “smile at the camera” just doesn’t cut it when we are after those natural smiles! From experience, this approach hardly ever works and I rarely ask kids to smile during a…

Everyone loves fall family pictures but gosh, summer family photo sessions might just be my most favorite! The warm breeze, wildflowers, tall grasses, summer maxi dresses and cute baby rompers are hard to beat!! Kim contacted me a few months ago inquiring about a family session and after Covid-19 stay-at-home orders hit and then May’s rainy and cold weather, we had to push back the…

I’ve had the privilege of capturing Virginia and Elizabeth’s milestones since little Virginia was 4 months old. It is an absolute joy for me to watch these little ones grow and document each stage from baby rolls to sitting up, smashing first birthday cakes, and running freely in wildflower fields! Rain and cool temps postponed our session the first time but we had a gorgeous…

When I first talked to Lauren about their engagement session back in March, we were unsure what the future held with Covid-19 and if their session would even be possible. Additionally, Lauren works at an urgent care facility in Indy and her job continued to be demanding with the added patient load. In the end, it wasn’t Covid-19 or stay-at-home orders that held off their…

Sweet Aiden’s first birthday was in April when our studio was shutdown due to Covid-19, but once we reopened in May and made sure to take all the safety precautions, we had the cutest little cake smash for him! Aiden’s simple and minimalist cake smash design revolved around grays and creams with a gray ombre cake here at our Lafayette, Indiana studio.…

Another boilermaker in the books! Alec Gerlach graduated last weekend from Purdue and we could not have had more fun with his family at his graduation session.…

This graduation season is so different from many others in that there is NO graduation with Covid-19! So much hard work put into these years at school and completing a degree…without a graduation ceremony. Graduation ceremonies are a landmark to help orient you from one phase of life to the next, and without that, it is often hard to have proper closure on such a…