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Well, I realize this isn’t normal for KJ! I don’t shoot portraits these days but this session was my first non-wedding shoot with my new Canon R6 and I’m obsessed with how these images turned out! It was the most perfect evening for this early fall shoot and the light was incredible!
The day Katherine and Nick emailed me asking if there was any chance that I would be available for a maternity session was the same day when our team had been talking about taking on a maternity session so that our KJ All Access members would have a fun change of pace in their episodes! When Nick and Katherine agreed to allow us to teach with their shoot, we were thrilled to 1. have a different style of portrait session coming up and 2. to have an opportunity to see such sweet friends again! Nick and Katherine are the type of couple that you feel like you’ve always known. They are so easy to talk to, so easy to laugh with and so wonderful to spend time with! Seeing them about to enter into a new season of life was so incredibly special. We don’t often get to see our couples in their seasons of growing their families and since we’re still in that same season of life, it was so easy to connect with their reality. I remember the days of being pregnant with Evy. It was my first baby and everything seemed so new and unknown…. but also SO exciting. We shared with them how special it is to have a little girl as your first and talked about our birth stories and they shared what they hope for for theirs. It was just the best evening together and we left feeling so thankful for the people God brings into our lives through our business!
Nick and Katherine, you are going to be the most incredible parents to this sweet baby girl! We are cheering for you and we can’t wait to hear the news that she has arrived!!!!
Thanks for reading!
— Katelyn
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I’m so excited to share this final 2020 Wedding with you all!! It’s a special one! We photographed this beautiful wedding day on our own 10 year anniversary! Ten years ago on this day, we were celebrating in my parent’s backyard under a massive white tent too! This was my brother-in-law’s baby sister’s wedding day and celebrating with the Malizia family was such a treat! They are a family MADE for weddings!
Well, I realize this isn’t normal for KJ! I don’t shoot portraits these days but this session was my first non-wedding shoot with my new Canon R6 and I’m obsessed with how these images turned out! It was the most perfect evening for this early fall shoot and the light was incredible!
I’m so excited to share another addition of Student Spotlights from our KJ Education community! It’s so funny to us, but quite often, we find that our friends who know us in everyday life but aren’t in our industry really have no clue what we do! They think we shoot 10 weddings a year and that’s the extent of our work these days but oh… that couldn’t be further from the truth!
When we first decide if we’re a good fit with our potential KJ Couples, we’re looking for a few things…. one of those things is that this couple keeps joyful! We’ve found over the years that couples what take themselves super seriously aren’t always the best fit for us! We love it when couples let their guard down and allow us to get to know them during their engagement session.
For some photographers, bridal details seem like a fun part of the wedding day… but for many others, it’s stressful. It’s the part of the day that throws them off, makes them wonder if they’re actually artistic and leaves them feeling flustered and panicked because they never get everything done in the time they have allotted for detail shooting. In my opinion, this is a REALLY tough way to start a wedding day.
Oh, this wedding day!! What a beautiful Texan dream! I met Melanie when she attended one of our workshops years ago in our home. She had the sweetest spirit and such a kindness about her. I remember loving how she made personal marketing her own and did headshots in a pile of Skinny Pop!! I loved her creativity and her ability to envision what she wanted in her brand.
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