Amberlee & Hayes

Many of you may recognize this gorgeous woman from almost exactly a year ago. Her wedding was a gorgeous beachfront affair that has left me breathless.We did her maternity session a few months ago, seaweed still clinging to her wedding dress, and have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of her second son ever since.

She birthed her sweet boy naturally and the glow and joy she had in the following weeks was just irrepressible. She was effervescent!

From Amberlee: "Motherhood is not something I ever saw myself in. I had a hard time with wrapping my head around this emotion and new life to come.

When my son was 15 months old My now husband and I were married on the beach. Mae was there to capture every moment. My favorite, was the image she got of me nursing my son. I saw the image and all it's glow, and for the first time saw motherhood in myself. The comfort, love and growth was all right there captured from her lens. I was awe struck and remain that way each time I see the image.

Her talent is effortless it seems. She was made by god to see women in motherhood the way they should see themselves everyday. I felt overjoyed the morning she came to my home to capture me, my full round belly, and my son again. I cried when she sent me the images. I cried because I've felt pain, depression and like I haven't been doing enough for my first son through this pregnancy. The natural light she got from our bedroom glowed off my face in only the way a true artist could find it. My sons eyes glittered when she caught the image of him smiling at me holding him over his soon to be little brother in my belly.

I can keep going on the emotions I get from not only the pictures she's taken of my family, but of others too. Looking at her work, I know it does all the talking for me. You won't regret your time with Mae, and you certainly won't regret your captured emotions. "

 

Thank you over and over again, Amberlee, for always being so venerable with me. You are a precious gem.

Fort Worth, I'm headed your way Nov 23rd, if you have a new beeb that you need pictures of while they are still teeny, let's set up your session <3 Coastal Bend Mamas, I will *only* be taking newborns the month of December. All other sessions should be scheduled in November or in 2015!

 

Black & White Love

I want to let you in on a little secret... I struggle with my black and white portraits.Well, maybe you already knew that ;] It is something that irritates me regularly. When I take a photo, I usually have in mind exactly the finished product I want to walk away with. Nothing is more frustrating for an artist to have a picture in your head that you can't get out, and that's what black and white photography is to me. I look at my subject and see this image all dramatic in black and white and gray... and I just can't get my camera or my editing software to make it come to life.

This has been my biggest investment this year, my black and white skill. I'm still not happy, not completely, but I wanted to share where I am right now :]

 

 

Janae & Babe at Home

Upon hearing that I was coming to Fort Worth, this mama contacting me saying she would love for me to photograph her and her sweet girl in their nursery. She said "It's all white and people tell me all the time that I should have pictures done in it."

Uhm. Hello. WHY no other photographer has taken her up on this before?! I'll never know.

From Janae: "MAE! Thank you so much for doing our pictures. They're what I have always wanted and dreamed of. Nursing my sweet baby in an all white nursery, like a little slice of heaven. Breastfeeding is flying by and I know it won't last forever (at least I hope not) so as I get up over and over in the night, I just gotta say "LORDDD GIVE ME PATIENCE PUHLEASEEEEEEE". Then as Ive been sitting up there the past couple weeks, I can't help but think how much of a bond we've formed through this. Breastfeeding is a blessing and I'm grateful it's been an easy journey for us, because I know it's not the case always. I'm so excited to have these photographs to cherish these soon to be memories of the countless hours spent giving my babe her "delicious treat". You are one gifted mama! The Lord will use you to touch people with your talent. "