Nonverbal Kids and Family Photos: No Forced Eye Contact, No Forced Smile Neurodivergent Family Children Resources If your child communicates without spoken words, through an AAC device, sign, gesture, or a system built between the two of you over years, the idea of a photographer asking them to say cheese can feel like it’s asking […]
Newborn St. Louis If you are sitting there right now counting days since your due date, doing the math in your head, wondering if you already missed your window for newborn photos, take a breath, you have not missed anything, and I say that as someone who has sat with this exact worry next to
Sensory Processing Disorder and Family Photos: What Actually Helps Neurodivergent Family Children Resources Most family sessions don’t fall apart because of one big meltdown. They fall apart in small pieces, an itchy tag, sun straight in the eyes, grass that feels wrong underfoot, a breeze that’s just a little too loud against a sensitive ear.
I don’t talk about this part very often. Not because it’s hard to say, but because it’s almost too big to say right. Some moments you carry around so carefully you’re scared that putting words to them will make them smaller than they actually were. But this is the moment everything I do comes from,
Fall Sessions Are Open, And This Is My Favorite Light All Year I say this every single year and I mean it every single year, fall light in St. Louis does something that no other season does, it comes in low and gold in the late afternoon and it makes everybody look like the best
The Creek Is Still Warm, And I Have A Few Spots Left Before Summer Lets Go There is a very specific kind of light that only shows up at the creek in late summer, gold and low and catching the water just right, and every year I tell myself I am going to slow down
Let me guess how your last attempt at family photos went. You spent days planning outfits. You prepped everybody in the car. You promised ice cream. And within ninety seconds of arriving, your kid was running laps around the photographer, climbing something they should not have been climbing, and giving you that wild, joyful, completely
I know. It is July. It is roughly nine thousand degrees in St. Louis, your kids are living their best popsicle-fueled summer lives, and the absolute last thing on your mind is sweaters and fall leaves. But I need to tell you something, parent to parent, cause nobody told me this my first few years
If you are the parent of a rising senior, you have probably already felt it. That little jolt of “wait… senior year is actually here.” One minute they are in kindergarten holding your hand at drop off and the next minute someone is asking you about cap and gown orders and you are standing in
Why Your Family Photos Don’t Need to Be Perfect to Be Meaningful Somewhere along the way, family photos started to feel like they had to be perfect. Perfect outfits. Perfect smiles. Perfect behavior. And if your kids do not cooperate, if someone cries, if things feel a little chaotic… it can feel like the whole
