Emmie
That’s right friends! I have another first birthday session for you today. This is probably the CUTEST session I’ve had in a while, but not for the reasons you might think. Yes, the pink and mauve theme in nature was so precious. But, it’s Emmie’s adorable GRUMPY face that just melted my heart!!! I will explain more about the face and her pink first birthday session at Lake Runnymede, but first, a backstory…
A Little Backstory
To understand this session a little more, I have to take you back to 2015. I was in Richmond completing my internship and was just starting out in weddings. I had done one the year before and fell in love. Emmie’s mom, Caleigh, reached out to me about weddings and took a chance on me! Although that love story didn’t work out, Caleigh moved forward and found the absolute perfect man for her! I was so so happy that she was finally happy.
One day last year, she reached out to me and asked if I worked with little ones… What?! Caleigh was expecting a little girl!!! Jack ran in the room and asked me why I was screaming. I was just so freaking excited for her and Joel! I finally got to meet the little bundle of joy in October and she just had the cutest little face in the world. Little did we know what it would turn in to when we reached her pink first birthday session at Lake Runnymede…
A Pink First Birthday Session at Lake Runnymede
Fast forward to 2020 and little Miss Emmie turned one TODAY!! Caleigh wanted the large oak trees and Spanish moss for Emmie’s first birthday session and I knew just the place: Lake Runnymede. She created a pink first birthday theme for Emmie’s session. The mauves and pinks of Emmie’s outfits and decor really popped in the tree covered preserve! Plus, those pigtails just made the whole session!!
Caleigh warned me ahead of time that she had a “grump” face. I’d been watching Emmie grow on Facebook and Instagram, so I had seen this face before. I just wasn’t convinced she’d have it during her session! But, oh my gosh. Honestly, it was adorable. It was like a “Really? Are you really making me be the cutest model right now? I don’t think so” face. The funniest part of the whole pink first birthday session was that she didn’t want Caleigh anywhere near her for photos!! She wanted to be “alone” for her modeling, so Caleigh had to keep hiding behind trees while Jack and I made crazy faces. Jack tried every trick in the book for a smile, but the grumpy face stayed, and I loved it. It reminded me of how I was as a little one!
Caleigh, thank you so much for trusting me again and again with your life’s most precious moments. And now Emmie’s too! I am so excited to see where she goes from here and I hope she never loses the grump face!! These are some of my favorite portraits to date, so take a peek into Emmie’s pink first birthday session at Lake Runnymede!
Orlando First Birthday Photographer
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Nick and Aly’s Engagement Session
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"We had previously experienced Haleigh's work at my brother's wedding and we knew we had to have her for our wedding as well! Haleigh is an exceptionally gifted photographer and as we viewed the wedding album we got more and more excited about each wonderful moment that was perfectly captured. We loved how easy it was to work with Haleigh and all of the fun and creative ideas that she had to create some truly special pictures. Haleigh actually came up to the DC area for us - not once, but twice (engagement and wedding pics)! And yet despite the distance, it was really and truly easy to work with her."
- Nicole and Michael
"Haleigh and Jack are two of the most amazing, sincerest individuals that I have ever worked with! We adore them so much and they made my fiancé and I feel like pros while taking pictures. We had initially had our engagement pictures taken by someone else and they were really disappointing, so we turned to Haleigh and Jack and they made us feel so comfortable, had a BLAST (who knew taking pictures in the Florida heat could be fun?!), and our photos turned out so much more than amazing. We have found our forever photographer and we are so grateful to have had the experience to work with Haleigh and Jack (and of course Rocky, too!)"
- Alyson + Nick
""Haleigh and Jack are amazing! They had our wedding date available only three months out and their prices are ridiculously reasonable. They both take such amazing photos and Haleigh goes out of her way to make you feel special and pamper you a little bit. She even has an exclusive FB page for her brides where we all share tips and ask questions. Their photos are incredible and their post processing really gave us the feeling we were looking for in our photos. Plus, we got our photos back in less than two weeks! Lastly, my new husband isn’t the most social in the world and was nervous about having someone in his ready room but Jack made him totally comfortable and they got along great.""
