The McElroy Family

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This fall session will always be one of my favorites.  We lucked out with pure blue skies and THAT MOON...I mean, are you kidding me?!?  Add in some serious family sweetness, and it couldn't have been better if we'd tried.  

Rebecca's Family Maternity Session

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I gift all of my birth story clients a maternity session - so that we get to spend a little time together with a camera in the room before mama is in labor.  :)  Really, it's a great chance to get to know one another a little more, meet the entire family if we didn't already meet at our initial consult, PLUS we get to document that famed glow of pregnancy.  

This session is a great example - maternity sessions with older-siblings-to-be involved are always the most fun, and with a mama as radiant as this and that Alaskan summer sun, it's simply magic. 

Be sure to surf the blog to see the birth story associated with this beautiful bump.  I'll link it once it's up - The Birth of Wyatt.  

Ali + Brandon: Love - Fairbanks Wedding Photographer

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Ali and Brandon tied the knot on in the clear sunlight of a December afternoon in the beautiful University of Alaska Museum of the North.  It was a tiny ceremony attended by the bride's sister (and maid of honor), the groom's best man, and the cutest ring bearer there ever was - the couple's two-year-old son, Eli.   It was short and heartbreakingly sweet.  The couple wrote their own vows, and they did not fall short.  Brandon surprised everyone by pulling one of Eli's board books out of his cummerbund (Eli's squeal of recognition was ADORABLE) and reading it to Ali, who was doing her best not to sob off her mascara.  One line I still remember from Ali's vows to Brandon was her promise to try "to always say 'have fun' instead of 'be careful.'"  Such deep love was expressed that day, and I am so happy to have been there to witness it.  

This gallery begins with some bridal portraits Ali and I did in the days before the wedding (talk about being a trooper - we were working quickly, but still, we're talking about Fairbanks in December in a sleeveless dress!), and the day of ceremony follows.