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An urban holiday {Kansas City child+family photography}
I held on posting this session at the time we conducted it late last year because we were designing holiday cards and didn’t want to spoil the surprise for friends and family. Thank goodness for little yellow sticky notes, because today I remembered that I still hadn’t shared this session with you – and these two are way too cute not to share! It was freezing cold the morning we shot these and I’m super impressed by the patience of their little guy as we explored downtown, wiped runny noses and aimed to get shots for their card. We ended up with so many more wonderful images than I would have imagined given the chilly morning. Below are my favorites from the session, the front and back of their chosen holiday card design and a 10×20 storyboard created as well. The storyboards are a terrific way to display multiple images with text in one fine art print mounted on 2mm styrene, durable masonite or lightweight “standout” board.
Enjoy this beautiful family and our urban adventure!







I chose the shot below to showcase the “Contact Me” section of my website with the title “Give me a shout” …. she’s actually in an old phone booth, how cool is that?

The final front and back of their custom-designed holiday card (we selected a gritty old typewriter font to go along with the more “shabby” downtown feel:


A 10×20 custom-designed collage below:

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Meet Kenadie {Kansas City baby photographer}
She slept the entire session with the exception of nursing and – the photographers reading this will appreciate – peed on me at the very end of nearly 2 1/2 hours. That usually happens to someone (or the bean bag) at least once during every newborn session and usually happens a lot earlier. I tell all new parents to expect a #1 or #2 at some point and we clean up and keep shooting. But little Kenadie was so close to proving me wrong! All shots were natural light in Kenadie’s nursery thanks to one beautiful window, my 24-70L/2.8 and my 50/1.4 lenses (ISO 400 average).
Her delivery was anything but smooth sailing, but I am sure I speak for Mom when I say it was all so completely worth it. Meet baby Kenadie. Just six days old and pure perfection.


I couldn’t help but wonder if she wasn’t thinking “Oh my, none for me, I couldn’t eat another bite … my belly is sooo full right now …” in this next one:













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A very Bella Valentine {Kansas City child photographer}
Happy Valentine’s Day from our house to yours. Yesterday was the big party at “school” and, as you can imagine, we’re still a little hyped up on sugar. As I type this, she’s just finished her fourth sucker since the party. Here’s to hoping that although she inherited my front teeth and major overbite, she gets the flawless cavity record of Andrew and me. Time will tell! Enjoy a couple of quick snaps from the festivities.


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Just a few more … {Kansas City baby photography}
Just a handful more from beautiful Daniel as I wrapped this session. I had so much fun playing off the colors of this session, but some images just shout for black and white.
Watch the blog next week for a peek from baby Kenadie’s newborn session. She the reason for mom’s belly in this session and made her grand entrance this past Monday. She’ll be six days old at our session this weekend. Enjoy the great weather we’re having!






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