Category Archives: LOVE (family)

just the way I like them | Grand Rapids newborn photographer

Only seven days old and as beautiful as could possibly be… sweet little rolls, all sleepy & bendy.  Have I mentioned how much I adore newborns?  What?  I have before? haha OK, if you didn’t audibly say “awwww” after the one above – I think there just may be something wrong with you! This one is actually from the...

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sand & surf | Grand Rapids family photographer

Things have sure been busy here at SLP!  Lately I’ve had the sweetest families, cutest kids, most adorable newborns and gorgeous brides in front of my camera.  A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of photographing an extended family from Chicago.  We met in the middle – in Union Pier, MI.  It was a...

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short of standing on my head… | West Michigan Children’s Photographer

I’ve had the pleasure of photographing S since he was a newborn.  A few months ago he was easily amused… all I had to do was wink and smile in his direction.  Now that he is a big, grown up 1-year-old? not. so. amused. He has been there and done that!  I have to admit...

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keeps me on my toes! | Grand Haven Family Photographer

… photographing a one-and-a-half-year-old, that is!  I photographed big sister, T, about two years ago, but this was my first time meeting little R.  While I fell in love with him right away – it was not so much the other way around.  Gotta love that age where everything and anything else is more interesting...

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friends | West Michigan Family Photographer

Some of you have met Julie who is my fabulous secondary photographer and assistant when I photograph weddings.  We have so much fun… it rarely feels like work!  I have been blessed to have her as a close friend for almost a decade and I really can’t imagine my life without her on the other...

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