Anastasia // Newborn

Last Tuesday I had my first newborn session. You may remember Adam and Gina from this post.
Well they just had their first baby on May 24th. She is absolutely adorable!

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 This being my first newborn shoot I spent a long time looking up ideas, tips and tricks on the art of newborn photography. (So if you were wondering why I suddenly had a whole pinterest board of newborn photography, now you know :)

Since I have 63 images that I completely and utterly love, I decided to share my flickr set for simplicity sake. 

Anastasia // Newborn, a set on Flickr.

Isn't she the cutest little baby ever?

And one thing to remember if you do a newborn shoot: it takes lots of time and patience. This shoot was about four and half hours long and for a lot of the shots I had about two seconds to take the picture before she started crying. But it was definitely worth it.

~Mary Kate

Anna // Senior {2013}

Last weekend I met up with my best friend, Anna and I took her senior pictures. It was my first senior shoot (a bucket list item crossed off :D) and we had a blast.

We've been friends for over seven years and best friends for about four.


Anna's the oldest of eight children (all roughly the same ages as my younger siblings) with twin two year olds as the youngest ones.


We've stayed up to the wee hours of the night countless times, sometimes laughing hysterically over ridiculous things (everything becomes way too funny at two in the morning), other times having serious discussions on things of life, and yet other times watching movies or stalking looking up people online. :)


Anna has a beautiful voice and even starred in the musical Cinderella at our local theater last year.


Isn't she absolutely gorgeous?

We spent two hours on this session, and amazingly the rain that was threatening to pour on us the whole time, waited until we started driving away. Despite the muggy heat and the ominous storm clouds we managed to have a successful shoot.

Anna, you are a remarkable young woman! Thanks for being my senior guinea pig :)

~Mary Kate