In Love

Nia's smile when she talks about Karl is almost blinding.

Karl's smile when he looks at Nia almost makes me blush.

It's so nice to see my sister so happy and in love.

Doing this shoot was a lot of fun and these two lovebirds were up for just about anything.

I really enjoyed getting to spend time with them and getting a glimpse into their relationship.

It really is a beautiful thing to witness true love.

Brittany & DJ - Married

Starting out in any field is stressful. Wedding photography? Multiply that by 100.

In this business, I'm going to have an entire head full of gray hairs within a year!

Sweaty palms, bad dreams, the urge to throw up your breakfast... I had it all, that day.

You can't mess this up... it's not like you can just ask the bride and groom to redo

their wedding day just so you can get better photographs...

It's a lot of pressure!

With that said, I could NOT have asked for a better, more beautiful couple to be my first.
They were young and fun and up for anything.
They made my job easy and that's saying a lot!

DJ (who happens to be my little cousin) and Brittany were married on a
beautiful, sunny day, filled with love, laughter and family...
even though things kept going wrong around her, Brit kept her cool.

She was getting married and nothing was going to ruin her day. I love that about her.
Her laid back, happy attitude suited her Hawaiian-themed wedding perfectly.

(the Hawaiian islands)

Congratulations, Brit and DJ.

I wish you many years of love and happiness together!

xoxo

Lafleche

Floral design by the always talented... Heavenly Blooms

Nia & Karl - Sneak Peek



You'll have to wait until the big day to see the rest...

Such a fun shoot with the little sister and her fiance, Karl.

He's got that perfect Flynn Rider smoulder.

Sweet Isabelle

Shooting baby Isabelle was my very first newborn session EVER.

Nervous didn't even begin to describe me.

She wasn't even a stranger's baby, she was my own NIECE.

I think I may have packed up half my house to bring over to my sister's house so that I

would have anything and everything I needed in order to facilitate the shoot and make it

everything that my sister hoped it would be.

I'm not new to photographing newborns by any stretch.

I have three of my own and a few (oh, about 20,000 roughly) photos under my belt to show for it

but it's just different when it's not your own baby. Pressure.

I wanted to get it right, to capture the pure essence of newborn that goes away by about day 10.

So day 5 rolls around and after a week straight of gray skies and pouring rain, I saw a break in the clouds

and the few tiny rays of sun that were peeking through were just enough to be

able to capture her in natural lighting.

It didn't go exactly the way I had envisioned it in my head. I was a clumsy and sweaty mess

trying to lull her to sleep to position her in the millions of positions I had researched online

and the ones that I thought would be perfect in my vision of what the ideal newborn shoot should be.

Isabelle had other plans.

Girlfriend. Would. Not. Sleep.

I began to wonder if all those photos of the babies on all those

 other photographers' sites were Photoshopped into those adorable positions that you see in the magazines.

It was so much harder than I thought it would be! I thought I'd drop her or break and

she refused to be put on her stomach for any amount of time.

She even POOPED and peed all over me and our blanket!

After a few breaks to love on the tiny little subject and trying to kiss and shh her into

a deep, deep sleep, I just did the best I could with what I had.

She finally slept but when I moved her from the basket she was sleeping in she was wide awake again...



In the end, my sister was happy with the shots I did get and I got to learn
and get some hands on experience while I'm building my portfolio.

She's such a sweet baby though, even if she doesn't sleep.





Beauty

I dragged my little sister in front of my canvas,

telling her that I needed to get some practice

and to build my portfolio. Really, I just thought

she was really beautiful at that moment and

wanted to capture it on camera.

and then my adorable little niece wanted in on the action too...

She's a natural.