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  • Welcome to our blog!

    Matt and I are a husband and wife photo team celebrating our twelfth year of photographing the most beautiful and fun families of Dallas, Texas. We also get to travel all around the country doing what we love. We specialize in showcasing the love and joy of families in beautiful wall portraits and heirloom albums.

    We have two really great kids ourselves...ages 8 and 5. Our studio is located right next door to our home, so we can spend as much time with them as possible.

    We have two fabulous people who work with us...James has been doing our retouch and photo editing for ten years and we are so grateful to have Amy in our office. She helps with all things design and production, and has been with us for over two years now.

    In addition to photographing children, our passion is giving back. Our studio has proudly supported Operation Smile since 2005. Since then, we have been able to provide the funds to help save almost 200 smiles!

    This blog is a daily dose of what we do...we hope you enjoy!

madelyn+harper+william+andrew

Ah the fourth baby…..always so sweet and dreamy.  Welcome baby Andrew!!!

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Kristi - Beautiful baby Andrew and beautiful photos! And he has dark hair – that is a first for a Jaynes baby, right?

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Beth Tomancak - Those are absolutely adorable! Such sweet pics to capture such a sweet time in your lives.

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Mary McCawley - Oh my gosh – these photsos are just beautiful – so are the kids!There is a lot of love in the pictures

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Coutney - So gorgeous! Beautiful pictures of beautiful kids! Can’t wait to meet Andrew.

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Pam Kunz - They are beautiful pictures of beautiful kids!! How to HK and I get one this time around? Pam

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Laresa Fitzgerald - Gorgeous pictures – can’t wait to see everyone! What a beautiful family!

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Dee Yates - Such sweet pictures with the newest member of your family. Can’t wait to meet Andrew.

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Lauren Story - What a beautiful family. Andrew is so precious and you can tell his brother and sisters love him!

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Gigi - Precious children having fun. What could be a more perfect memory!

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Pawpaw - How can you get them that still at the same time with smiles, and looking at th camera?

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Kay Heining - What beautiful children! Beautiful pictures!

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Laura Keeler - Do I have the best looking nieces and nephews or what? Beautiful photos!

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Stacey Cobb - Such an amazingly beautiful family…your photographer is wonderful at capturing these moments!

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Samantha Keeler - What precious smiles! Love it! :)

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Anne Thompson Hanes - There are no words to describe how beautiful these children are, heart breakers, each and every one and the photographers capture it!!! How do they do it!!!

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Angi - Such a cute family!!

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Angi - Such a cute family!

philip

Happy little guy…happy little family.

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Savannah Brown - Beautiful! Really captured his personality.

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Sarah Hensley - Love the Wetz family…and the pics!!! :)

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Jessica Woods - Such a precious little boy!

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Joey - What adorable pictures! I love this little guy!!

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Elizabeth - Thank you for taking such wonderful pictures of my precious boy!!

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Libby Schechter - What a beautiful baby! The eyes, the hair, the smile, great photos!

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Lindsey Detwiler - I just want to snuggle him! These are phenomenal pictures. He is so precious!

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Patricia Austin - Great photography — but then he had great subjects! Precious!

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Michael Detwiler - Is it just me or does he look a little like Justin Beiber in the first picture? Really good shots.

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John Wetz - The pictures are wonderful and captures the love in the family.
What beautiful natural poses.

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Kisha - Love, Love, Love!!!! Such great pics!!!

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Shannon Clark - Amazing photos! This boy needs to be a professional baby model. I love this happy little family!

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Diane Tunnell - He is way too cute for his own good. Get a baseball bat to ward off all the gals in the future!

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Stephanie M - Such beautiful pictures of a beautiful family!

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Amy Wetz - He gets cute and cuter all the time! Amazing moments captured in these pictures!! Beautiful!!

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Bryan - Seriously….PL is the dude!!!

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Kaylee Williams - He is the cutest thing I have EVER seen! LOOOOVE these pics!!

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Ginger - These pictures are adorable! I especially love the one with Philip in the crate!

julien+ashton+mikayla

Another session from before Christmas…love these brothers.  SO gentle with their new baby!

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Courtney - Oh my sweetness! Love the one of brother hugging and cradling his baby sister! Beautiful pictures!

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Portrait Photography Denver - They are giving warm welcome to their baby sister and showing their love to her. Last one is my favorite.

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Mike - You got so many great pictures, I can’t wait to see how they turn out!

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Rachel Stables - These are so beautiful. Will be so nice when I can meet her in person.

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Charlotte Tomlinson - They are all so gorgeous! Wonderful idea, the baby cradled by adult hands. Can’t wait to meet her!

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jenny - So very precious. What a beautiful family!

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Jason - Those are great!!!!

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David - Too cute!

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Anne - Such a gorgeous family!!! The last pic is the most precious thing ever!

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Bobby Goldie - WOW!!!

AMAZING!!!

A PHAM-DAVIS GIRL!!!

LOVE’EM

: )

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Phyllis Davis - These are adorable, sweet children reflected so well in the pictures..I say this as a very proud grandmother!

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Julie - Angela, you have a wonderful talent working with newborns and siblings to capture their essence! Love the beautiful pictures!

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Jacqueline Pham Nguyen - Oh so Beautyful Pham Davis Children. Great pictures
Love all these pictures.

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Olivia - Wonderful pictures! What a beautiful family!

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Raad - Congrats Mike and Julie! Beautiful pictures. Julien and Ashton look happy to have a baby sister :)

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TJ - Fantastic shots of the kiddos! Love the last one. So cute.

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Edward - Beautiful photography. It takes a real talent to capture these moments so well. Congratulations Mike and Julie!

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Aimee - These pictures are unbelievable!!! Truly beautiful!! Love them!! Thanks for sharing!

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Bo - These are absolutely adorable, 2 brothers and little sister

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Matt Hawkes - Congrats Mike – What a great family you have :)

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jenny lui - they are sooooo… cuuuute….
beautiful kids, beautiful pictures. really love the black-white one, very creative.

2.1.12

Tommy - These are such great pictures of the kids!… Looks like big brothers will be watching over Mikayla very closely.

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Kathryn - what beautiful children and beautiful pictures!

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Pascal - This is great, very happy for you. The pictures are excellent, can’t get better than this. Looking forward to see you live soon.

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Adnan - Love the last picture. Is that a professional hand model?

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Scott - Beautiful pics!

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Jan - Auf diesem Weg nochmals alles Liebe und Gute für Euren 3 Kleinen! Sie ist einfach eine echte Prinzessin und ich kann es kaum erwarten sie hoffentlich bald mal in Person zu sehen.
Fühlt Euch alle gedrückt!!!!

2.3.12

Ann Lam - These pictures are so cute, they spontaneously showed so much love and tenderness of her brothers for her!

jake+adrianna

Cuties Jake and Adrianna.  And let’s not forget the family’s original baby, Hudson.  ;)

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Sandy - Amazing! You really captured the essences of all “3″ of our children. Thanks for the treasured memories.

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Anne - I can’t decide which of these 3 is cutest! These pictures are precious!

willa

Precious Miss Willa.  Love her and that beautiful name!

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Becky Newsom - These are great pictures! Willa is beautiful and you and Brandon are too! These are very special!

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stephanie - such incredible pictures to capture such a precious little girl. i happen to be huge fans of her parents as well. and her name… it’s just plain GORGEOUS. fits her perfectly!!

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Rita - I love these pictures of Willa! How perfect!

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Amanda - Love the photos of sweet Willa! She is adorable!
I also love the ones with mommy and daddy too!

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Molly - These pictures are amazing. What a great job capturing such a special little girl.

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Amy - She is so precious. Love these moments that are captured!

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Amanda M. - The song, I Can See the Fingerprints of God, comes to mind everytime I see these sweet pictures. Every good and perfect gift is from above and she’s proof.

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Mary - Darling baby Willa! These pictures are beautiful!

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Allison - ¡Qué preciosa! The pictures are beautiful and superbly sweet!

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Ginny - These photos capture how precious your new little family is! So special!

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Jane Olson - Beautiful pictures of a beautiful baby!

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gene - These are wonderful. Such great pictures to capture my little granddaughter

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Kathy Hollingsworth - Such a precious baby girl — love Willa and these awesome pictures that truly capture her specialness!

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Kathy Hollingsworth - Such a precious baby girl — love Willa and these pictures truly capture her specialness — just beautiful!!!

ryder

From before Christmas…..Mr. Ryder with his gorgeous mom and dad!  OK, we LUURVE the guys.  Not only are they super sweet and amazingly photogenic, but  they are the BEST hair people in all of Dallas.  If you suffer from more bad hair days than good (Like ME….pre Matthew Tully Hairdressing), get an appointment with Matt or Tania.  They are the masters.  Truly!

 

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Tania Tully - Thank you Angela and Matt for the sweet words! It truly means a lot! We on the other hand, would like to thank you guy’s for the beautiful photographs!! You guys are extremely talented and super creative in what you do. We love the way you work so beautifully together and we have lots of fun shooting with you. We would not expect anything less because we are working with the best!! Thanks again!!!

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Carmen Dempsey - Beautiful pictures, as always!! Everyone that sees the photo cards that Tania sends out during the holidays always comments on how creative and original they look. Great work!

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Rebecca - Beautiful photo’s!

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Catia - Beautif family pictures and great choice on the photographers .
The pictures are great very spontaneous.
The difference that a good photographer makes is capturing the emotions of the subject and transfer them in his/her pictures.
Awesome job, and yes I love the three of you!
Catia

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Kristen Powell - These pictures are amazing!! Such a beautiful family! Love!!

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Kim Kimberlin - Matt, Tania,and Ryder are all so photogenic. Their pictures always turn out top notch. Everytime I get a photo (small book) it is awesome. You do great work
and all the pictures you take are really creative and fresh. We look forward to getting new pictures from Matt and Tania throughout the new year and keep up the great work.

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Laken Lackey - Beautiful family an beautiful pictures. Perfect.

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Chenoa Rocha - Such gorgeous pictures! Love the backgrounds and the poses you caught! Beautiful family and beautiful photography! The holiday card was one of my favorites also.

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Lauren Border - These pictures are beautiful! The photographer did a great job of capturing the personality & spirit of the Tully family. Love, love, LOVE these photos!

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Tira J - Amazing pictures of such a beautiful family! I also LOVE Tania’s hair.

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Christan S. - LOVE this beautiful family!!!! Don’t think they could ever take a bad picture. Angela did a wonderful job capturing this great family. pictures you can help but smile at.

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Debbi Mathews - These pictures are amazing and beautiful. They truly show how much they love each other!

carson

It’s about time that I attempt to show some of the cuteness we’ve seen since the beginning of our busy season.  We got just too swamped to keep up the blog for a while, and then it’s been hard to get back in the swing of things in 2012!  Here is sweet Carson- whose parents are both ob/gyn’s.  So excited for them to have their very own baby now!

meeting dr. magee

This past weekend, Matt and I traveled to New Orleans for the annual Professional Photographers of America conference.  It’s always a great time to see those friends we only get to hang out with once a year, explore the huge trade show, and take classes from some of our industry greats.  And since this year was in New Orleans, there was a fair amount of eating and drinking that added to the fun!

We have long been involved with PPA Charities, serving on the Board for years and fund raising for its chosen charity, Operation Smile, since 2005. So at each year’s conference it’s a huge thrill to see that check….the one that for 3 years running has totaled $100,000!…get handed to such a worthy organization.

Well, this year, we had the added excitement of meeting Dr. Bill Magee, the co-founder and CEO of Operation Smile.  What he and his wife, Kathy, started 30 years ago in Philippines has not only grown into one of the world’s most recognizable charities, but is also one so close to our hearts.   Our nephew was born with a cleft lip 12 years ago, and I had the opportunity to travel with OpSmile in 2007 to photograph it’s medical mission in Honduras.  Both experiences changed us, and are the reasons why our business and family will continue to support OpSmile.

Dr. Magee is by far the most inspiring person I have ever met.  He is funny, warm, personable, brilliant, and passionate.   He is at once a plastic surgeon, a general surgeon, a dentist, and a father to 5 and grandfather to 13.  He is the best public speaker I have ever heard.  He is a humanitarian, and what he started has helped 160,000 children around the world lead healthier, happier lives.  They have a smile, ultimately, from Dr. Magee.  The fact that he chose to spend the weekend with us….a bunch of photographers who raise money in the thousands….rather than socialites or corporate types who raise money in the millions, floors me.  And I will take what he spoke of in his speech to heart.

Dr. Magee would likely not approve of what I just wrote.  He made a big point that there is not just ONE hero in any story.  A child’s life is not changed just by the skills of one doctor, but by the combined efforts of the nurses,  support staff, fundraisers, and local volunteers on each mission.  Each is a hero.  And through his words, I think I first started to really believe that by what WE are doing….raising what money that we can, photographing the children to give a face to the cause….we are heroes too.  He also spoke of never knowing which everyday moments would change a life.  This charity that has helped and changed so many, started with a small moment in he and his wife’s life.  One that compelled them to travel across seas to help those in need.

He also made a point very clear:  if you are doing something good to help others, it is not OK to just sweep it under the rug and never let others know of it.  Gulp.  Guilty.  I guess we have felt a bit too high and mighty to tout the fact that our business (ultimately our amazing clients), has supported Operation Smile so heavily through the years.  We set aside what we deem appropriate, keep out noses to the grind stone, and write a big check at the end of the year.  But Dr. Magee pointed out that this does NOTHING to raise awareness or excitement for others to have the opportunity to do the same.  We have not been vocal enough.  OK, so here goes.  Thanks to our wonderful clients, we were able to contribute another $6000 in 2011 for Operation Smile.  That makes for a total donation since 2005 of over $40,000….which translates to HUNDREDS of children’s lives changed!

Please watch this amazing video that Dr. Magee played for us.  Coldplay gave them the rights to use this song….just try NOT to sob!   We are excited to do more (and let it be known what we are doing!) in 2012 for Operation Smile.  How could we not?

 

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Grateful - I’ve had the privilege to work with Op Smile in a business capacity the last 4 years. They are a classy organization top to bottom. I can’t express in words how grateful I am to have been introduced to a organization of people that gives me such hope for this planet.

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Erin Golan - Angie, what a touching video. As you said, I am wiping my tears away. This organization is so blessed to have people like you and your husband contributing the way you have, as are the countless families whose lives you have changed. May God continue to bless your business so that you can continue to make a difference.

jack+rush

Our first session of the new year….and it should go without saying that it was the first time we had seen an actual, real-live Olympic gold medal.  Amazing!  Little Rush’s daddy is a legendary swimmer and a super nice guy, too!  But I think the sweetest part of this session had to be watching 7 year old big brother, Jack, love on his new baby brother.  Awww!

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Amy Jerke - that second photo is soooo amazing! everything about it, the colors, the light, and how natural the moment is!

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Lana Whelan - Beautiful pictures!

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Rebecca Rathman - The photography is exceptional and it doesn’t hurt to have such a beautiful family to photograph.

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Cathy Freeman - Beautiful pictures of a beautiful family. They capture the love they share.

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Denise Sears - These are beautiful!! What a beautiful family!!!

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Vicki Hannum - Wow, fabulous and beautiful!

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Michele Berube - Angie, you are an amazing photographer! We can’t wait to see the rest of them!

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Gail Bayne - Amazing portraits of one of my favorite families,

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Cheri Leatherwood - What an adorable little baby boy! What a fabulous way to ring in the new year! And what a sweet big brother! Congratulations to all of you! Especially Grandmother Lana!!

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Wyn Sheree - So beatiful! Congrats Berube family! You make very handsome baby boyz!

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Shelley Wollman - You truly captured the love, beauty and joy in that amazing family!!!

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Ryan Rathman - Great pics!

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Tiffany - Love, love this family and the pictures capture the love within this family!!

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Jean Crawford - These portraits are amazing! You ROCK Angela! Lana, thank you so much for sharing these as I will not be out to see you until June. Look how our little treasure is smiling with his Mommy! LOVE – LOVE – LOVE all of these portraits and hope to see more. Jack is so dear! Love you all and miss you. x0x0x0x0

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TIffany Walker - LOVE, LOVE, LOVE – oh the love that Rush has with his family!!

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Jill Meletio - Gorgeous photography and family! What a joy viewing these!

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Nicole Lehman - Beautiful pictures! Beautiful family!

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cheryl meadows - absolutely beautiful family!!

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Kay and Roy Baker - Absolutely awesome!!!!!!!!!

Alexis in the big apple!

Well this blog post has been a long time in coming!  Right around Thanksgiving, Matt and I traveled for a super fun weekend to hang out in NYC with this favorite family.  It was BY FAR the best time we have ever had in NY…..sunny and 60 degrees in November?  Yes, please.  We traversed the city, photoing Miss Alexis everywhere- from Central Park to TriBeCa, to Brooklyn.  So fun!

my new assistant

It’s been so long since a blog post that I barely remember how to work this upload!  The last couple months were a total blur of round the clock shooting, editing, card designing, Christmas shopping, traveling, and finally…resting!  But now, we LOVE January.  It gives us time to reflect on the awesome past year and look forward to how we can improve the one coming up.  In the past I have felt so guilty about not blogging each shoot during our busy season, but thankfully this year I’m over it……you’ll just need to trust me when I say that 2011 was an amazing year for us and we got to see and photograph hundreds of beautiful, fun families along the way.  I’ll do my best to sneak in a few past sessions here on the blog (including our trip to NY, I’ll show that one soon!), but for now I’d like to show off my new assistant…..helping us out in the studio while photographing our previous assistant’s brand new baby.  Oh how we love Jen!!!  She was our first office assistant/nanny/everything girl. She was with us for 6 years before starting her own beautiful family….which now includes 3 year old Ian and brand new baby Caden.  My Ava was beyond excited to meet this new little man and when I asked her to be in the studio for her very first newborn session, she about exploded!

The two little men…..Jen I see this hanging above your mantle very soon!
OK now I know this ought to go without saying, but Ava was NOT the only assistant in the room for this session.  Matt was .5 mm out of the frame for this shot.  We would never ever ever ever EVER think of photographing a baby in a bucket or any other prop without very experienced, steady hands inches away.  New photographers, please understand that the ONLY way to achieve safe newborn portraits is to work with an assistant.  One that is not 8 years old.  Please visit this link to learn more about what our community of newborn photographers do to ensure the safety of these most precious and fragile subjects.

 

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Grethel - Super cute assistant and baby!!

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Sophie - Such an adorable post, and that last image is pure perfection!!

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marilu Johnson - Omg, Angie you did it again. What beautiful pictures you took of Ian & Caden. Absolutely love them ! You are so talented, they came out perfect. We enjoyed viewing them so much !!!!

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Tira J - Such a fun time for Miss Ava in the studio. Love her shirt. And congrats to Jen, Caden is so handsome. Can’t wait to see more sneaks here on your blog. Happy New Year Angie!

gabby+brooks

Nearly every weekend this fall Matt and I have found ourselves on a plane traveling to photograph a fabulous family.  (Just got back from NYC last night!)  Last weekend we got to go to the Atlanta area to see this gorgeous and fun bunch, along with their newest family member….a beautiful paint horse named Santana.  Santana was not too keen on being in the family pictures, but we so loved being around his stable and the amazing fall colors!

 

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christy - Oh, wow, if I would’ve known you were in my city (Atlanta) I might have come to the airport for my celebrity siting. :)

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Heidi - Thank you Angie and Matt for a fun shoot!! We look forward to seeing everything and as always your photos are amazing. Thanks for flying in last minute..we were so excited when we heard you could make it on that date! Have a wonderful Christmas.

The DeRosas

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Sophie - Wow. Absolutely gorgeous, and the images are practically bursting with happiness!! :)

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Caitlin - As usual, I am just BLOWN away! These are gorgeous!!! I just adore the photos!!

1.3.12

Sophie - WOW. Each image is more amazing than the last, and you captured this family’s joy so beautifully!!

1.3.12

Sherwood Photography - What a great set of photographs! My favorites are the one with the backlit horse and the last one on the leaf-covered road. Great job!