The McClellan Family's Sunset Field Session

“Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A family session with the McClellans with a glowy summer sun, a jeweled bee quilt made by momma, star sapphire baby eyes, and lots of wildflower field snuggles.

Genevieve (Evie) Delotelle's Waterfall + Wildflower Newborn Session {Chattanooga, TN}

My niece: Genevieve (Evie) Helene Delotelle

Little light

Little bird

Wible Family Autumnal Hued Session {Indianapolis, IN}

So much love here.

Crawford Family's Autumn Lakeside Session {Indianapolis, IN}

A cool Autumn night.

A little calm, a little wild.

It suited this crew.

We recreated, with baby Luca, one of my favorite shots from his older sister Irie’s newborn shoot two years ago. Can you tell which (hint: not-so-happy but oh-so-kissable baby cheeks)?

Hudson Eli's Newborn Photos

New parents cherishing their son in heart, mind, and spirit.

Postma Daisy Rich Family Session {Munster, IN}

Lora and I have been friends for over a decade. We’ve adventured Lebanon and Thailand at each other’s side and when this world gets crazy I dial her number to reaffirm truth. When I visited her last month we found a park with a speckling of daisies where I could capture her family aglow in the heat of our midwest summer. In return she is making my baby in the womb a quilt to keep him warm when he is greeted by the turning of summer to fall. Love this friend for all seasons.

The Livingston Family's Urban Session {Indianapolis, IN}

Kent is our pastor here in Indy and we so appreciate his vulnerability and sincerity in leadership. He often shares about family life from the pulpit and, having children about the same ages, we can so often relate.

Notice in some photos how I intentionally blurred the boys movement to signify the velocity of this moment in life for the Livingston.

Life with three littles is wild and dynamic.

Irie Skye's Newborn Session {Indianapolis, IN}

I am smitten with this last photo of petite Irie and her devoted momma and daddy. In it we glimpse the newborn babe phase: 

raw

 explosive

 delicate

 humorous

loud

 and beset with love.

London

My parents just moved back to the U.S and are house hunting! So glad to have Nene and Poppi closer to grandbabies, but missing their old digs in the UK! Our trip there a year ago created a yearning for more. 

Reminiscing on some memories from our trip there a year ago....

We only had a couple days in the city so we hit a few of the "musts:"

The Tower of London with its blood soaked biscuit Raven connoisseurs 

Hampton Court with its great halls, rose gardens, and topiary maze

Borough Market for its meat pies and mushy peas

and of course Big Ben and Changing the Guard. 

Vale Rhea In Home Newborn Session {Indianapolis, IN}

"When on thy lovely vale I stand to gaze,
I feel thou need'st from me no meed of praise:
Thy hanging woods, thy fountains, and thy bowers,
Thy dashing floods, thy landscapes, and thy flowers,
Thy bold grey rocks, thy healthy purple fells,
Where silent solitude with beauty dwells ;"

On Bingley by John Nicholson