Imagine this: You have booked a session with your dream photographer, but when you arrive to your session your toddler is just not having it. Your child cries, clings to you, and wants absolutely nothing to do with the camera. While the photographer tries to engage your child, they are just not responding. It’s all […]

One of the biggest questions that I am asked by clients is where to find a dress for their session. I want the process of styling your session to be as stress-free as possible, and your choice to make you feel absolutely beautiful during your session. That’s why the client closet exists, but I also […]

With the motherhood event coming up so soon in April, I thought it was a good time to share some recent photographs I took of this momma with her littles. I wanted to photograph a bonnet that I handmade for the client closet, so I asked Faith to meet me at the studio that morning […]

I know personally how as a mom you don’t often end up in photographs with your children. You are the one always taking the picture, so you don’t often end up in pictures yourself. But mommas, I’m here to tell you that it is important. Years down the road your children will want pictures of […]

The Archer Family Foundation is a newly forming non-profit that will be coming alongside families that are living with a hydrocephalus diagnosis. Hydrocephalus is a condition where there is excess fluid built up on the brain. There is no cure and the only treatment is brain surgery. Shunts are placed and can fail, leading to […]

A Lancaster family session summer this sweet must be shared! It was a pleasure to see Allisa again, as I had photographed her with extended family the previous fall. Her daughter, Emma, is one adorable little girl! The Lancaster area provides so many beautiful places for portraits and Lancaster County Park is always a safe […]

NOTICE: If you are a photographer looking at this page, you do NOT have permission to use the photographs to advertise your own mini sessions. That is theft and false advertising. Just because you saw the photos on Pinterest does not make it okay to steal. It was such a pleasure to serve other mommas […]

The Parmer family is one where when you meet them you think to yourself, “Gosh, they are just so perfect!” I arrived to their session after meeting them at a wedding where they were a part of the bridal party. They asked if I was feeling adventurous and the answer to that is (always, okay […]

I cannot tell you how good it feels to have my own space to create photographs for families like the lovely Bates family. Studio Illume was not something I expected to pursue the year after a pandemic, but the Lord had other plans! I still cannot get over little Reya’s red hair and her sweet […]

I photographed Alexa and Tim’s wedding a couple years back and I was SO excited for them when I heard that they had become parents! Peyton is all smiles and such a sweet little one. It was wonderful to have them all in the studio and photograph this stage of life!