THE JOURNAL

I have been photographing this wonderful small business, woman owned company right here in Minnesota for a few seasons now. We started back when I was still in my old studio just upstairs from where I am now in the Northeast Minneapolis arts district. Our photo sessions are always so much fun. In fact this […]

Everyone should have some beautiful family photos that they can pass down to their kids and grandkids. These types of heirloom-quality photos do require a specific approach though as they need to capture the essence of your family. Whether you’re planning your first family photoshoot, or your annual shoot is coming up, these tips will […]

This summer I had such a fun photo session with a Minneapolis family at Comp Park in St. Paul. Como Park is one of my favorite locations to photograph families at in Minnesota. In fact last summer we did a petite sibling session at the same location with these adorable kiddos. I have been photographing this family […]

Style boards are my favorite thing to share with clients!  Once a month I buy a new dress to add to the studio wardrobe and this month this beautiful Free People dress is the chosen one.  This dress will not just be gorgeous in the studio but also out in the fields this summer/fall for […]

Whether you’ve decided now is the perfect time to create a scrapbook or print some of your favorite Instagram snaps, you can do so directly from your Apple device. You won’t need any fancy software and it only takes minutes to print images for your home or albums. What you will need to do is […]

From the day you find out you’re pregnant to the day you give birth, every moment is meaningful and deserves to be documented. Whether this is your first child or your third, a pregnancy memory book can be a special project that you can pass down to your child. It can also be used to […]

I had a lovely in home lifestyle newborn session with this beautiful family in their Plymouth home. This mama was referred to me from one of my neighboring clients in Maple Grove. I convinced her to come into my studio in Northeast Minneapolis to do a maternity session before her newborn so that she could decide […]

As soon as the warm weather hits in the spring my teen daughter and I get antsy to get outside in the backyard and take photos. While snow sessions are fun in the beginning we get burnt out on them quick because it’s just too cold out. But spring! Oh how we love the warm […]

I had such a beautiful maternity session in my Northeast Minneapolis studio the other day. I met this lovely mama last fall for their family photo session. They were new clients with older teens so can you imagine my surprise when I saw their maternity request come in! I was so excited to have her […]

It has been three years since we last went on spring break! Something has always come up and last year we wanted to go on one but Covid prevented us from doing anything other than driving up to Duluth Minnesota. At first I wasn’t sure if going on spring break this year was a wise […]