As the saying goes, "For when a child is born the mother also is born again.” (Gilbert Parker)

If you are a new mother or expecting a baby, you may be looking for connection, for answers and for community. It is out there and I encourage you to engage and find what you need! Although every mother’s experience is different, we are all on the same journey. We {as mothers} want to feel secure, loved and protected and we want the exact same for our babies. The gift of motherhood will bring you every extreme emotion and all the little feels in between, embrace them and share them with a friend. You are helping her in so many ways.

The pain that you’ve been feeling, can’t compare to the joy that’s coming. -Romans 8:18

I’ve taken a few minutes to think about this line from Romans 8:18 and how true this rings to motherhood. We are given such a gift with this role. It comes with hardship, pain, joy, love, laughter and everything both in between and on either side. Each experience is unique, each turn of events affects us each in a different way. In essence though, we are all on the same journey. Am I right?

Can you recall how you felt viewing your images for the first time when you opened up your gallery? I will bet it all you got tears in your eyes seeing the captured images of your most loved ones. Now imagine seeing them on a big screen, in your living room, with your loved ones. This is what I can do for you. This is your reveal session.

Once I began to show the world only what I love to do, the people who resonated with that started to contact me. I would say that all of my hired work now centers around honest and intimate Motherhood. Whether clients are seeking a Maternity Session, a Newborn Session or a Family Session, the overarching theme in my work is Motherhood.  

Being the person behind that camera, I sometimes have completely different thoughts of how a session is going that my models actually do and Ive learned a few things over the years. Ive paid attention to things my clients' faces have told me...