Portraits

The Portrait Experience

We love golden light, rolling dunes, and family snuggles. Let us forever preserve your Outer Banks vacation memories.

Our sessions are designed to be fun and relaxed, and each session is tailored to fit your family. Our photography and editing style is heavily centered around incorporating the “untouched” beauty of the Outer Banks. For this reason, sessions take place at Coquina Beach in South Nags Head, and are scheduled around sunset. We typically allocate around an hour to capture your family, but sometimes we’re able to finish up in less time when your group contains mostly adults or older children.

As a momma of two little ones, I know all too well that sometimes kids just aren’t having it…and that’s ok! We do our best to get those smiling faces, but sometimes we may just resort to more candid and organic moments. We like to keep things moving to avoid littles ones getting bored in the same spot for too long. When all else fails, getting up and moving around is key!

The Process

01. Inquire

Please fill out the contact form below. Make sure to include the OBX town you’re staying in, the number of people in your group, as well as the dates you’ll be in town.

02. select A DATE

We will get back to you ASAP with availability as well as info about our Session Guide. We ask that our clients be flexible in the event of weather reschedules.

03. FINALIZE BOOKING

You will receive an email with your custom booking link. Sessions are not confirmed until both the contract & session fee have been submitted.

04. hit the beach!

Prior to your session you will receive a reminder email about your session along with helpful tips to prepare. We can’t wait to see you out on the beach!

Single Family Sessions

Designed for parents + children.

Single Family Sessions are designed to be just parents and children.  These sessions provide a little more freedom to explore and change up our posing, allowing us to devote the entire hour to capturing just your family. With any session, the first half of our time together is typically spent up in the dunes and is geared towards getting those faces smiling at the camera, while the second half focuses on more relaxed candids down near the water’s edge.

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Extended Family Sessions

The whole gang from the grands down to the littles.

The Outer Banks is a gathering spot for generations to come together, and we couldn’t think of a better time than to document all the generations. Capturing all the primary groupings, as well as each individual family.

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Senior Portrait Sessions

Toss a hat for the graduate.

What better a better place to commemorate a milestone like like the beach? Our Senior Portrait Sessions are designed to showcase your senior’s accomplishments with the landscape of the Outer Banks as the background. We encourage seniors to bring along outfit changes and any props they feel help showcase their personality and interests.

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Maternity Sessions

Sessions to celebrate new life.

The perfect place to capture your growing family. Maternity sessions can be solo, with your spouse/partner, or any additional children. We typically do a mixture of solo and together photos, and an outfit change is always welcome.

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Lifestyle Newborn Sessions

In home lifestyle session of your newest babe.

What better place to capture new beginnings than right at home? Our lifestyle newborn sessions typically take place in your home, though we are happy to shoot on location if you prefer the outdoors (weather/season permitting). We want to capture those sweet snuggles and tiny baby moments in a relaxed setting.

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Session Investment

All sessions include our time together on the beach, image editing, and digital files delivered via private online gallery.

$550 1-5 People

$650 6-10 People

$750 11-15 People

$850 16-20 People

Frequently Asked Questions

Once a date has been chosen you will receive a custom booking link via email. Just click the link to submit the contract and pay your invoice. Sessions are not considered booked until both contract and session fee have been submitted.

The short answer is, no. Due to session demand during high season we are unable to offer minis. We do typically offer an afternoon of beach minis in the late fall. These are short and sweet sessions, scheduled back-to-back, on a single pre-determined day.

Sessions take place at Coquina Beach in South Nags Head. Our photography style is highly centered around incorporating the natural landscape of the Outer Banks, and Coquina Beach is our little hidden gem. It provides untouched scenery with ample space to utilize various settings.

We watch the forecast closely and often work around the weather by adjusting our start time. We suggest sticking close to home that day should we need to adjust our start time. We intentionally take a limited number of sessions each week to allow us built-in rain days. In the event it’s a total rain-out (aka: raining at the time of your session), your sessions will be moved to another day. For this reason, we do ask prior to booking that families be flexible with their session availability.

That’s the fun of being a parent…you never know if they will or won’t cooproate! 😉  In all seriousness, kids tend to surprise you and it’s VERY rare we aren’t able to get at least something amazing! Sadly there’s no magic formula to make kids cooperate but we do our best. We try to make sessions fun – and it’s the main reason we incorporate both structured groupings and candid photos. Sometimes little ones are feeling shy or just not having it…and that’s ok. When in doubt we shift our goal to capturing more candid moments and sweet interactions, and sometimes that little change helps to open them up.

Our photography & editing style is considered “light & airy”. For that reason, lighter/softer colors tend to work best to achieve that clean and soft look you see in our portfolio. If that’s not your style, that’s ok, these are your photos after all. While we don’t recommend being matchy-matchy, we do suggest choosing a base color palette and have everyone select clothing that is complimentary. Don’t be afraid to incorporate a little pattern, but try to avoid too many contrasting patterns or designs. Instead, consider incorporating different textures.

Ready to book your session?

Please complete the contact form below with as much info as possible and we will be in touch!