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Maternity Story taken last year

Hospital Story taken last year

Newborn Story taken Last year

1/2 Birthday Session taken this year Enjoy!

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This was taken in our backyard believe it or not, and I loved it so much I had some Canvas Gallery Wraps printed. If your interested in purchasing one please email me and I can give you a custom quote!

A couple more from around our property.

I had a fantastic maternity session scheduled for the very weekend the snow decided to make it’s appearance, and LUCKILY my amazing client was just as excited as I was to take pictures in it. So we got the most gorgeous backdrop possible for her maternity story, and it truly was a magical experience!

I’m so glad we did capture her maternity session when we did, because as it turns out 10 days later she had her precious little man! Today, 10 days after his birth I got to capture his story. Enjoy! And hope everyone has a very HAPPY NEW YEAR! Looking forward to seeing you all in 2014!

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The first option a Full Family Story Session! We’ll work together to plan the perfect photo shoot to capture your Family Story! So many options here in this beautiful town we live in. This fabulous package also comes with 20 Enhanced Images, 25 BEAUTIFUL Boutique Christmas Cards, and your beautiful story session!

The next option is an INCREDIBLE deal! Perfect if you just want updated family pictures, and don’t need the full Story Session! A Mini Session includes a 20-30 minute session, and you choose what you want to add on. There’s no minimum purchase and images are an incredible deal. Add on 10 Enhanced Images for only $75, or 25 Boutique Christmas cards for only $50! Call to book your Mini Now!

I’ve loved capturing your Family Stories! Here are a few little previews from some of the stories I recently had the honor of photographing! Thank you so much for supporting Essence Photography! For driving from Sacramento,CA, Redding, CA and surrounding area’s so I can tell your story!

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Thank you for allowing Essence Photography to capture YOUR story!

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Hope you’re enjoying the new website. There were many countless hours put into this beautiful new design, as well as the function.Chris Molitor did a great job with the overall “Design” while Kyler Burke from GRAPHICpilot.com worked super hard making sure this site didn’t “just” look beautiful but functioned well. Hopefully it’s loading quickly and easy for you to find your way around! 

To celebrate the Launch of “CaptureTheStory.com” we’re going to be doing a BUNCH of Giveaways! That’s right more then one! You’ll just have to keep coming back if you want to find out what they all are! Make it easy and sign up for our Email List, that way you’ll be notified every time I’m blogging a new giveaway, or telling someone’s story! 

{Our First 2 Give Aways}

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This is a FABULOUS $350 Gift Certificate! Oh There are so many ways to ENJOY THIS BABY! *haha no pun intended* 

Family Portraits for your Christmas Card? A Love Story Engagement Session? Senior Portraits? Towards a Love Story Wedding Package? OH THE Possibilities are ENDLESS!  TO Enter to Win This Fabulous Prize I need you to SPREAD THE LOVE! Here’s How To Enter Below

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And Here’s Another Giveaway! This BEAUTIFUL Brand New Pearl Necklace & Earring Set from Harry Ritchie’s Jewelers! Win this for the lovely lady in your life? Win this for yourself?! It’s gorgeous and it will look gorgeous on you. Every lady deserves something fancy like this! 

 


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So I met this rad lady at a friend of mines baby shower. She was actually very pregnant herself and throwing a baby shower for someone else. Shows some of her wonderful and sincere heart. I didn’t realize what an amazing person her and her husband were until I had the opportunity to do their maternity shoot, just a week or so before she was due. I thought I would be blessing them with pictures (silly me) but man did they end up blessing me! I laughed so much, and enjoyed just talking about the wonderful things that God was doing in my life, and theirs. I left feeling full of joy!

I was hoping they would love their maternity pictures and I would get the opportunity to do their newborn pictures whenever baby made it’s arrival. Well, she didn’t have the baby 1 week after the shoot, she was 13 days overdue when baby L made her grand entrance into the world. And I do mean grand, she was born in the car on the way to the midwife’s house! That’s another story altogether, best left to the mama and Dada to share!

I had the wonderful privilege of photographing baby L today, 1 week from the day she was born! And much like I am sure her birth surprised her mom, this photo shoot surprised me! Normally newborn shoots can be quite tricky, well lets be honest, sometimes they are darn right hard, I’ve left crying from a few… praying that I got usable and beautiful shots to bless the new parents. Newborns take hours to photograph in between, feedings, and changings, and sometimes they just don’t want to be posed into those cute little props!

So you can imagine my surprise when baby L slept the entire 2 1/2 hrs that we shot, with the exception of a changing here, and a feeding there, I don’t think I heard a whimper out of her the whole time I was there! She is truly covered in peace! I had so much fun posing her and talking to her mom, I was again BLESSED by this family, far more then I am sure I could ever bless them.

Here are some pictures from today’s shoot. These were all shot indoors, because thank you Redding CA it’s already over 100 degree’s and thats not exactly newborn friendly weather!

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