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My passion is capturing photographs of heartfelt moments for families to savor forever as keepsake memories. Whenever I'm not helping your family, you can find me loving on my own. Camping trips, boba tea, and card games are our favorite ways to connect!  

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It’s graduation season, and that means it’s time to pop the champagne and celebrate some amazing accomplishments — just like Laura did for her graduation photos at at High Point University! 🎓 Laura is graduating with a degree in Chemistry (go science!) and we had the best time wandering around campus capturing her joy, personality, and school spirit. HPU has no shortage of gorgeous photo…

May 2, 2025

Laura's Graduation Photos at High Point University: Iconic Campus Spots + Champagne Fun - Kelly McPhail Photography
Graduation season is one of my favorite times of year. There’s something about the joy, the pride, the sigh of relief, and the huge smiles that make college grad photos so so special. So far this year, I’ve been lucky enough to take college grad photos for students from High Point University, Wake Forest, UNCG, Elon, UNC, and NC A&T. Each session has reminded me…

April 26, 2025

College Grad Photos: 5 Must-Know Tips for an Unforgettable Photo Session - Kelly McPhail Photography
Congratulations to Katherine on her Spring 2024 graduation from Duke University! What an honor it was to capture her Duke graduation photos to celebrate this incredible achievement! I am SOO SOO happy about how these turned out! Although I’m a UNC grad, I can’t deny how beautiful the campus is. It’s a graduation photographer’s dream! Plus, Duke Chapel is such a marvelous structure (I recently…

January 21, 2025

Katherine's Duke Graduation Photos - Kelly McPhail Photography
Gosh, it’s been cold here! I just opened up my spring and summer 2024 calendar, so I’m already getting excited for warmer weather so I can start shooting outside again. During these coldest days of winter so far, spring and summer still feel a long way off. But my booking calendar always keeps me thinking months ahead! Although it’s only the second week of class…

January 17, 2024

Nina’s spring Purdue graduation photo session could not have fallen on a better day in mid-April! The Bradford Pear trees were in full bloom, you know those stinky ones, but gosh we captured so much glowy golden-hour goodness and I’m just obsessed with her session! Considering Purdue grad photos this year? Reach out today!…

March 9, 2023

university graduate wearing white dress in front of white blossom
Riya reached out to me months before about graduation photos because she wanted to find a way to commemorate her time at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. She was planning a big move out of state for her new post-graduation job and knew she didn’t want to leave until she documented some of these incredible memories she made over the past four years at…

January 10, 2023

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.…

May 24, 2020

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…

May 13, 2020

My passion is capturing photographs of heartfelt moments for families to savor forever as keepsake memories. Whenever I'm not helping your family, you can find me loving on my own. Camping trips, boba tea, and card games are our favorite ways to connect!  

I'm Kelly

Hey!

Greensboro Family & Lifestyle Photogapher

Categories