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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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Greensboro Family & Lifestyle Photogapher

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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!  

I'm Kelly

Hey!

Greensboro Family & Lifestyle Photogapher

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As soon as we stepped onto the sand for the Schneider’s family photos at Holden Beach, the wind picked up. Not just a little wind, but a lot of wind! The most wind I’ve ever shot a session in. Sand was whipping in their faces, stinging their legs, and hair was flying every where (mine included)! I could tell the kids weren’t too happy. They…

September 20, 2024

Family Photos at Holden Beach, NC - Kelly McPhail Photography
There are so many things I’m looking forward to about living in Greensboro, North Carolina. Being closer to the beach is one! But being near family again is of course the major reason we’re moving back. In this post, I’m combining both beach and family by highlighting my beautiful sister’s summer family beach photos at Ocean Isle Beach! Ya’ll, these are some of my most…

June 5, 2024

Summer Family Beach Photos at Ocean Isle – Etheridge Family - Kelly McPhail Photography - Kelly McPhail
Maybe it’s because I just don’t love the cold and dreariness of winter, but I can’t stop going back to look the Isenbarger’s beach family photos at Indiana Dunes last year. (Although I was born in Minnesota, I think I might be a warm weather girl at heart!) This post is especially for my Midwest friends. But the beach is too far away… Have you…

February 26, 2024

Whenever life is hurtling obstacles my way, I’m typically a “just-watch-me-overcome-and-persevere” kind of person rather than a “it-must-be-a-sign-the-universe-is-trying-to-tell-me-something” kind of person. It’s probably stubborness! (Just ask my husband or parents…) So when I tell you it took three tries to get the Armentrout’s family photos at Indiana Dunes this past summer, you’ll understand that I was going to make these beach photos happen no matter…

January 22, 2024

Family of 5 with 3 young kids sitting in the sand at sunset at Indiana Dunes.