They're worried the kids won't sit still or look at the camera, they're nervous they won't get any good photos because their husbands don’t love pictures, and almost everyone is convinced they’re the exception to the rule… the family or couple that just won’t photograph well.
The honest truth is - you don’t need to know how to pose, act, or be “photogenic” for this to work. My job isn’t to turn you into models. It’s to help you relax enough to just be yourselves so the real moments can happen naturally.
Because years from now, when you look back on your photos, you won’t care whether your toddler smiled perfectly or your hair stayed in place. You’ll care that you can see who you were in that season of life, and who was right there beside you.
Most people who step in front of my camera tell me the same thing before we've even started - “We’re awkward in photos.”
About
I'm a full-time photographer, former elementary teacher, and the person who never minds when you send a late-night text asking about outfits for your session. There’s a good chance I’m still awake too.
Outside of photography, my life is pretty normal. I’m a mom to a busy toddler, married to a high school ag teacher, and most days I’m editing during nap time, running errands with a snack-covered backseat, or convincing myself one more Dr Pepper won’t hurt anything.
I’ve always loved photographs - the kind you pull out years later and instantly feel transported back into a moment you didn’t realize you’d someday miss. But I also know standing in front of a camera can feel intimidating. A lot of people worry they’ll do something “wrong,” that their kids won’t cooperate, or that they just aren’t photogenic.
You’re not the only person who has ever felt that way — and you won’t still feel that way by the end of our time together.
My sessions aren’t about performing or getting everything perfect. I’ll guide you when you need it and step back when you don’t, so you can relax, interact, and actually enjoy being there. The best photos don’t happen when you’re trying to look a certain way - they happen when you forget the camera is even there.
My goal isn’t to create flawless pictures.
It’s to give you photos that feel like your real life.
Hi, I'm Alison.
a little peek at my life:
Photos freeze time - and then somehow hand it back to you years later.
One of my favorite things to do is look through old photographs. Pictures of my family at Christmas when I was young, disposable camera photos with my best friends in our "awkward years," black-and-white images of my great-grandparents when they were newly married, and now photos of my own little boy growing up far too quickly.
There’s something about those images that pulls you right back into a moment you didn’t realize would matter so much someday. They don’t just show what life looked like - they remind you how it felt.
Long after the moment passes and memories blur, the photos stay — proof of a life well-lived and people deeply loved.
This is about more than just photos.
After more than a decade photographing weddings, families, and milestones, I’ve learned that almost nobody walks into a session fully confident — but almost everyone leaves saying it was easier and a lot more fun than they expected.
Your session shouldn’t feel like a performance.
Yes - I’ll help with what to do with your hands, guide you on where to stand, and make sure your hair isn't looking too wild at any given time. But the goal isn’t perfect posing or scripted moments. It’s helping you relax enough to interact naturally so the connection you actually share shows up in the photos.
You don’t need to be photogenic.
You don’t need perfectly behaved kids.
You don’t need to know what you’re doing.
You just need to show up as yourselves.
When that happens, the photos stop feeling like something you just saved on Pinterest, and start feeling like memories you got to keep.
This should be so much more than cute outfits + scripted poses.
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They’ll matter on an ordinary night years from now — when your house is quieter and you find yourself scrolling back through them. You won’t notice whether everything looked perfect. You’ll notice who everyone was and what marked that stage of life.
The smile waiting at the other end of the aisle.
Those tiny newborn fingers wrapped around yours.
The snaggletooth grins and freckled summer noses.
I know that because some of my favorite photographs are ones I never took — the photos of my own grandparents when they were young, long before I existed, but somehow still familiar to me. They let me see pieces of a life I only heard stories about, and they mean more to me now than anyone could have predicted when the shutter clicked.
Why I do what I do
These photos won't matter most today.
That’s what photographs become. Not just decorations or social media posts... They become part of your family’s history. The part that'll be around for generations to come, long after the moments have passed and the kids are grown.
You don't need to wait for your life to be perfectly put-together to book your photos. Life is messy and wonderful and flies by so quickly; book the photos because this chapter matters — even while you’re in the middle of it.
And one day, these won’t just be pictures — they’ll be evidence of this beautiful life you shared together with your favorite people.
