The story you're living right now is beautiful. It's also hard, full of a million little things your family does together, the traditions and moments that make you uniquely you.
I want to get to know you and guide you through an experience that's more than just getting through a photo session. Your children will be led with kindness and compassion, even through the tricky moments, so your family can have fun, relax, and simply be together. I'll guide when you need it, then step back and let your moments unfold, with my heart and my camera.
Captured on real film and digital edited to feel like film, your images will have an artful, timeless look that outlasts every trend. My hope is that they take your breath away and show you how beautiful this family life you're living truly is.
Because their childhood, the one you're desperately trying to hold onto through all the chaos and busyness, deserves to be remembered. And you deserve to be in it too, beautifully documented alongside them, so they can see how you loved them, and you can see the way they look at you. So you'll remember not just how this time looked, but exactly how it felt.
You deserve more than a cookie-cutter session at the same park as everyone else, with photos that end up forgotten on a hard drive.
Your everyday story, artfully told
This intimate session is designed to document your motherhood journey. Whether you're in the early childhood years, raising teenagers, or expecting your first baby or your last, this session is for mothers in every age & phase of motherhood.
Motherhood
Whether it's the first week home or it's been three to six months and you're finally catching your breath. My newborn sessions are baby-led and lifestyle-focused, right in your home. No buckets, props, or posing, just your beautiful baby and your family's story, told exactly as it is.
Newborn Photography
For families who want their unique story artfully documented, told with honesty and curated with heartfelt intention. From start to finish, I'll get to know your story and gently lead and hold you through the entire experience.
Family Photography
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“Rachel has taken our family pictures multiple times and I love how she captures the personalities of my family!”
“Rachel makes the sessions fun and gets everyone involved. The final product is always beautiful!”
“Rachel is incredible. The photos she takes are literally magic! the quality of her photos are STUNNING!”
Love Notes
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I hold the details from start to finish: a mood board to shape your vision, clear notes on what to wear and what to expect, light-scouting ahead of time, and check-ins so nothing catches you off guard. You get to simply show up as you are — I'll take care of the rest.
It means having someone who truly gets to know you through a detailed questionnaire and a Zoom call before your session. I learn your style and your family's rhythms, rather than handing you a guide and leaving you on your own. I'll ask about the small things you may not have even thought of yet, the ones you'll want to remember 20, 30, or 50 years from now.
I take the time to know your family, the small details and the big ones, so I can tell the story you're artfully living right now.
More than a quick session, a curated experience
Booking starts with a detailed questionnaire and a zoom call, so we’re never meeting as strangers and winging it. I’ll learn the ages and phases your children are in, your rhythms and traditions, what matters most and what you don’t want to forget. I want to know you and make it personal.
01 / Connect & Dream
By session day, we'll have already connected through our Zoom call, questionnaire, texts, and emails, and planned wardrobe together if you'd like. I won't just hand you a guide and leave you on your own. So when your heart is fluttering with nerves about outfits, a messy house, or the right snacks, you can relax the moment I arrive, because I've got you.
02 / Capture Your Story
In 4 weeks or less, your curated gallery arrives, likely with a tear or two. You'll never be left wondering what comes next. Rather than adding "print photos someday" to your to-do list, I'll walk you through choosing the best pieces for your home, from fine art albums, to wall art, to a keepsake box of prints for your coffee table that your children will love to look through.
03 / Gallery & Heirlooms
I've always been drawn to the way a single photograph can stop you in your tracks. The way it can tell a story without words. Human emotion, the range of connection, the dance between a mother and her child, a family in their everyday: to me, it's the most beautiful thing.
So it's always been about connection. About family life. About seeing mothers, and helping you feel deeply beautiful and seen on this beautiful yet arduous journey of pouring yourself out into your children. Parenthood and childhood can be sometimes painful and sometimes so innocent and beautiful, and all of it is worth remembering.
One image can tell a whole story
PRESERVING YOUR every day STORY
