Jason + Naomi | Reno, NV Anytime/Maternity Portraits

Pregant women have a special glow to them. Mix that with the extra special bounce in your step you get on your birthday... and what do you get? A very beautiful Naomi.
I met Jason and Naomi a year or so ago at church. I couldn't help but fall in love with Naomi. She was so cute and crafty, and definately someone with a kindred spirit to mine. I knew I wanted to be her friend. Last spring she and her hubby found out they were expecting, and we started scheming about a maternity session.
When we met up this fall to hold her session, I found out it was her birthday! She was so excited to spend her birthday with her hubby and with me, having a super fun maternity portrait session at the University of Nevada, Reno campus. I was honored. I had so much fun spending the day with both Jason and Naomi. Congratulations to the two of them on their new bundle of joy, Lewis who was born on Christmas day.

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Akiya + Jessica | Minden, NV Family Portrait Session {Sneak Peek}

Last week our really close friends Akiya & Jessica visited from Kentucky. We were heartbroken when they moved across the country a couple years ago. Our families were really close, hanging out almost every day. We've kept in touch through skype and phone calls, but it definately did not compare to getting to hang out with them again! We did an impromptu photoshoot in their parent's backyard while they were here. I can't wait to develop all of their pictures, but here's an especialy cute one of Jess.

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The Hayes | Wellington, NV Family Portrait Session

Meet the Hayes Family. I met them through our church, and they are one of the most pleasant and humble families I’ve had the pleasure to meet. Debbie, the mother, put on this year’s Vacation Bible School, a full cowboy theme that was a huge success. Savannah, the oldest daughter, is studying to become a midwife! Lacey is studying art {a girl after my own heart} at a Christian Liberal Art University.

This was one of the first photoshoots I’ve had to reschedule due to bad weather. Almost every session I’ve had the pleasure to shoot has always ended up with perfect or acceptable weather. Most often, (especially last winter) weather would be horrid, up til the session date, and then suddenly the skies would clear, the temperature would rise, we’d hold the session, and watch the weather return to the horrible conditions as before. This time, however, good weather did not happen. It snowed all day Friday and then rained all day Saturday, leaving yucky muddy puddles everywhere, and making it impossible to shoot outside. We rescheduled for today, hoping the weather would be better, and for the most part it was, despite almost freezing temperatures.

The Hayes were so kind to pick me up {an hour drive!} and take me to their house in a 4wdrive vehicle (just in case the weather decided to change). Then we held our shoot and they fed me taco salad before driving me home. ;] I am so thankful for wonderful families like them.

Here’s a couple of their images from today’s session. (Do you see the cute little goat eating the hay!? :D)

The Plants | Gardnerville Family Portrait Session {Sneak Peek}

Here’s a quick sneak peek from the Plants Family’s fun and adorable portrait session on their ranch house property.



More adorableness to come!

The Strattons | Genoa Family Portrait Session

Here’s a few images from Saturday’s Portrait Session with the Strattons in Genoa. It was a perfectly crisp but pleasant morning.

Christmas Family Portrait Specials

I may be a little late on posting my Christmas Family Portrait Specials for this year... but I will work extra hard to have a super fast turn around so you get your images in time to print and send to family!

And did I mention 40% off?!?!



Tell your friends! {no really, if they book because of you, you get referal discounts, specials, and extra love ^_~}

Eric + Joleen {+ two on the way!} | Genoa Family Portrait Session {Sneak Peek}

Eric and Joleen were one of my Images for a Cure Portrait mini-sessions in Genoa. They opted for a late afternoon-evening time slot. I didn’t think anything of it… especially after a morning session that had PERFECT weather – slight cloud cover, streaking sun through golden leaves, and a gentle warm breeze. But when I arrived back at the park in the evening, the sun had already set just enough to leave the park out of the path of the sun’s rays. Everything looked cold, dead, and dull. Bleh! I was not happy. Then the wind started to blow… hard. And my mood went from bleh to grouch.

But Joleen and Eric arrived with their two little puppies and lit up my camera’s frame. ;] The joy and glow of expecting twins was written across their faces, and they braved the wind like nobody’s business.

Here’s a sneak peek of their shoot! A full post to come. ;]

The Ohlers | Genoa Family Portrait Session {Sneak Peek}

What do you get when you mix a beautiful park on a warm autumn day, with a beautiful mother, her adorable four children, and a photographer? A super fun super cute session. The Ohler family was one of my Images for a Cure Portrait mini-sessions in Genoa. Unfortunately their dad was out of town on business, so we focused on the kids and had a blast playing in the leaves and climbing trees and making silly faces! ;]

Here’s a sneak peek. More adorableness to come!

Images for a Cure Event | Saturday Nov 6th, 2010

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Baby Enoch | Family Session {Sneak Peek}

This Tuesday I ran up to Sand Harbor for a double family photoshoot. I have to admit, when I received the page long list of portrait shots I was overwhelmed. I don’t “do” shot lists… I prefer to go with the flow of the session and allow my creativity to guide it. But it was a double family shoot, with two sets of grandparents, sisters and husbands, and 6 children… and they wanted specific combinations of people, so I accepted.

The weather was great, the shoot ran a little long, but mainly because I couldn’t help but take lots and lots of images of the kids. Here’s one of my favorites of the youngest little one, Enoch. He has two different colored eyes that are beautiful and big puffy cheeks. So cute! ;]

Ruby + Alisha | Lifestyle Session {Sneak Peek}

Sneak peeks like this make me go awww! Alisha and I did maternity portraits almost a year ago. Now her little girl is ten months old! This past Monday we got together again to do a photoshoot with Ruby. Here's a few images from that shoot. ;]






More to come!

The Jezeks | Lake Tahoe Family Portrait Session {Sneak Peek}

I met the Jezek Family last September when Jeff (my hubby) and I were invited to join a camping trip with a family from our church and the Jezeks. There was a small hint of recognition, and it turns out that Todd (the dad) had trained with Jeff’s dad, and also did some work for my boss (at my office job). Since that camping trip, Todd and Jeff started training together (martial arts) weekly.

This morning I had the pleasure to shoot some family portraits for them. Crissy and I decided we would meet at Sand Harbor at 9 am. We thought that was early enough to guarantee the beaches would be almost people free. But to our surprise the beaches (and the parking lot) were already packed! Thankfully we were able to maneuver our way around the masses of people. [But it makes me wonder… Who gets up at 7 or 8 am on a Saturday morning to drag their family to the beach? I’d much rather sleep in, and roll up to the beach around midday.]

Here’s a sneak peek from their shoot. ;]

Magaly + Valerie | Carson City Lifestyle Session { Sneak Peek }

I am so excited to share this sneak peek!

Magaly is the client for the Community Pregnancy Center, whose story will be shared nationwide! I had the pleasure to do a photoshoot with Magaly and her beautiful seven-month-old baby girl Friday morning. (If you follow me on Facebook, then you heard a little about how this session came about. If you didn't, then wait for the full blog post or read the posts on facebook. ;] )




More to come!

The Grimm Family(ies)

A couple weekends back I had the lovely pleasure of doing some quick family portraits and a couple business headshots for the Grimm Family. My dear friend Elizabeth (who was my maid of honor) married a fantastic man a couple years back. They live an hour or so away so we don't get to hang out much, but we still keep in touch and get together when we can.

Her husband recently graduated from the fire academy (Elizabeth is so excited to have a firefighter for a husband) and they were going to hold a graduation party for him. She called me up a few days beforehand to ask about my availability for a large family portrait shoot in July and told me she'd call me back once she'd coordinated between the two families. When she called me back she asked if I could just do it during the graduation party... which normally I'd be inclined to say no.. as I wouldn't want to take away 15 people from the party for an hour shoot. However, they just wanted some low key standing posed portraits and said there was a creek/river nearby the house. So I agreed.

The creek ended up being much uglier than we had both anticipated, so we just shot in their front yard, which had some beautiful green grass and green shrubs and trees. We cycled through the business shots and then the family portraits pretty quickly. They were hilarious. I tried to position them by having them mirror my actions, but it didn't catch on at first and they all had fun laughing at each other. Elizabeth had instructed them to all avoid patterns or screened shirts, and so the families opted for bright or pastel spring colors, which I was thrilled about. [don't get me wrong I think family portraits with matching white or black is classic.. but mixmatched bright colors is lively!]



I owe Elizabeth a HUGE thank you/shout out as she is my number one referer (is that even a word?) - just today she called to tell me she had a wedding for me in late July! I LOVE YOU ELIZABETH!! (And congrats, again, Justin on your graduation from the fire academy!)

Martinez Family Portraits - Sneak Peak!

So here's a sneak peak at some family portraits I did for the Martinez Family on Tuesday.

Martinez Family , originally uploaded by HarmonyHilderbrand.

I was so incredibly nervous... It never fails. The night before a photoshoot I work myself up into a freinzied excitement. The morning of I'm going over my checklist in my head [did I charge my batteries? is my memory card empty?]. But then a couple hours before the shoot rolls around and I get extremely nervous. Its kind of like I doubt my photography skills, or fear I'll make some horrible blunder in my internal camera settings and shoot the entire thing and realize I ruined all the pictures. At least I know I can't shoot without a memory card in the slot.

Anyways Jeff and I got to Sand Harbor a little early and so we shot a couple pictures of the two of us (see my 365 project) and then some jumping pictures. When the Martinez Family arrived we started walking around the beach shooting journalistic style. It was such as blast! They have two adorable little girls, ages 1 and 2. The one year old was extremely outgoing and reached out to me as soon as she was out of her carseat! The two-yr-old was shy, but had an adorable little smile. Both kids were probably the best children I've ever shot! They were such a cute family! More pictures to come soon.

p.s. - Here Jeff & I jumping (June is for Jumping - don't ya know?)
He had such a blast.. [even though he won't admit it].