It's June

Well at the time of writing this post it's June 2025. Such a fun month June can be. Spring has sprung, the birds have returned and schools are winding down, which means field trips and graduations galore! Such an exciting time!

It also happens to be the month of my birthday ( unlike some I enjoy my birthday) and it's also Love and Lace Photography's 3 Year Anniversary!

It's one of those things, I can't believe it's already been 3 years but also it feels so much longer! I've been through a lot in the last three years with this business.

From the very first session, when I was all nerves and so scared I wouldn't be any good to now, I still get nervous but I have far more confidence in my artistic abilities. Thank all that is good!

When I first started I thought I would hate family sessions! I avoided them like the plague.

I thought I wouldn't know how to talk to the parents and the kids and that I would be really awkward. I really wanted to capture maternity, newborn and baby photography but not families.

Well there's a flaw to that plan.

Maternity leads to families. It's unavoidable. So even though I had invested a lot of time, training and money into these genres I decided to focus on the opposite of family photography.

What's the opposite of family photography?

Boudoir.

I was drawn to its ability to help other women with their self-esteem, which I have personally struggled with in the past and not gonna lie still have times of struggle now. I was also drawn to the artistic freedom that came with this genre.

So down the romantically lit, lacy black bunny hole I went.

And it was fun for a while. I got a lot of really awesome clients and I loved that they got to get pampered and feel beautiful in my studio. I felt like I was helping these women see their true beauty. Until I got a client who I couldn't make feel beautiful. And then I got another one. I would look at their images and marvel at how beautiful they looked but they didn't or couldn't see it. I began to lose faith in my abilities and lost the love for boudoir.

If I'm being perfectly honest, I wanted to be a maternity and newborn photographer more but I got swayed or shall I say scared away from it and into boudoir photography.

I go to a point with boudoir where I just wasn't enjoying it anymore. It didn't feel aligned with me and my values.

Though I still think it's an awesome genre for the boost it gives, it just doesn't suit my personality.

I'm a Mama first.

I always have been and I probably always will be. My family is my everything. I love them more than words can ever express.

I'm the girl that smiles a real genuine smile at every baby and mom I pass. I oooh and ahhh at Every. Single. Dog. I see. I can't help. I have so much love for families and fur babies. They light up my life and bring so much joy to my world.

You need to follow your heart and push past your fears!

And so begins the chapter in my photography journey where I discover that photographing families is actually really fun!

I started with maternity, which naturally led me to newborns and then families. Every new client is like making a new friend. I get excited when clients keep coming back and I get to see their families grow. That is the greatest part of this job.

I love getting to see the ways parents and kids interact and how siblings play. I get so much joy and some giggles when I look through a families images and I can see the raw emotions on their faces and the love they share between them. It's SO special!

I feel so silly now that I ever avoided families. I love them!

Dear Weddings, I tried.

At the very very beginning of my flirtations with becoming a photographer I was blessed with meeting a photographer who offered to be my mentor. I am forever grateful to her for showing me the ropes and for having a real personal interest in my success.

Her name is Jen and she is the owner of Every Angle Photography. She is an amazing talent and she is a highly sought after wedding photographer.

So I was so lucky that she wanted to help me! She had me come out to a few sessions with her, which was amazing! I even got to "second" shoot at a couple weddings. While it was fun in its own way, I quickly decided it was not for me. Unfortunately.

Fast froward 2 years and I stuck to my guns that weddings were not for me. Until one day I received a request to do a very small wedding ceremony in town, no reception, just the ceremony and some family pictures after.

They couldn't find an available photographer and their wedding was coming up fast. At this point I didn't have a studio (we were living in a trailer building a new home and studio). I figured okay I will do it.

I could say this was a BIG mistake. But then I would always wonder if I could or should be doing weddings. So while I will begrudgingly say it was't a mistake, I will say never again!

The wedding was beautiful, the couple were lovely and so laid back. But I had gotten myself so worked up fearing I would mess up or miss a shot that I had made myself sick. I made it through and got a lot of nice photos. The Bride and Groom were happy. I was not.

I had given myself so much anxiety that I ended up with numbness in my body for weeks! (did see the doctor about this) I had so much tension in my back and neck that I may have pinched a nerve.

I also did not enjoy editing over a hundred images. I enjoy hand editing my images and that takes a long time. So you can just imagine how long it would take to do that many. Too much time!

To the point, Dear Weddings, I truly tried, but you're not for me.

We did the then, its time for Now!

I've had to keep my business on the back burner since last June, due to the construction of our new home and studio. I have been spending my days swinging hammers, screwing screws, stapling, holding and lifting things, sanding, painting and focusing nearly all my energy on making our dream home a reality.

But now that we are slowing down and finishing up I get to jump back into my business and helping clients with their dream photography sessions. I'm So EXCITED!

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