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baby daphne . studio session . ann arbor . adorableness

melissa — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:42:28 +0000

I’ve had my studio space for two years now.. and I have just started this winter actually using it as more then a meeting and headshot space. I have had the joy of photographing Randeep and Adam’s family from maternity to newborn and now first birthday (I got to photograph her sister’s wedding too!). The studio light was lovely, the baby was adorable and the parents (and auntie and uncle who came up for the fun of it) were super fun. See for yourself :)

stella . spring session

melissa — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:15:56 +0000

I have had the pleasure of photographing Stella and her family since she was a wee bit, I say that every time I post pictures of her, but it’s worth repeating, to watch such a beautiful little girl grow up, she was TALKING and had opinions this time! It was awesome, and of course she has the coolest parents in town! I wanted to get a few pics up as soon as possible and these are some of my faves!

I especially love all the hugs and kisses in between “family portraits” those are always my favorite!!

amanda’s family maternity session

melissa — Fri, 06 May 2011 20:43:41 +0000

this is mothers day weekend so forgive a huge post but it couldn’t be helped. amanda and her family were amazing, beautiful and so much fun, and I went a bit crazy around their ann arbor home :) there is a beautiful song by lily allen about life nowadays seemingly more about film stars and less about mothers and so at least around here, at least around mothers day, I’m going to celebrate a mom, and moms in general. (note we’re seeing the crayola coloured bubbles again, and again yes they are being used much more like finger paint, lovely, fun, bright fingerpaint!)

amanda’s sister was there too and I got some nice shots of her, she styled the shoot and did fantastically! thanks sis!

kari . family

melissa — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:15:52 +0000

Today is gray and rainy, but last week it was 80 and perfect and I met Kari and her family to celebrate her maternity and the soon to be new addition to her and Patricks beautiful family. This is the first family session where we played with the new crayola colored bubbles (it will not be the last I share with you!) and they are much more fun to splosh about and spray each other with then they are to bubble… (I may just start bringing paints to sessions!) so we had splatters and laughs and it was so fun.. here are some of the frames that were my favorite.

clearing our heads

melissa — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 05:35:03 +0000

This is Hannah, she is not scared of the sea -

new sites, new logo, new collateral on the horizon, not too long now, we’re clearing our heads be ready for it :)

playing in the leaves with piper

melissa — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:40:00 +0000

She is an adorable, full of energy, sweet little bean and I do love to take her picture. Her mother is amazingly fabulous as well and together I do believe they are going to be unstoppable :) Here are a few frames from her session.