the first year
Most will tell you that the year goes fast.
I wish more talked about how you’ll become a new version of yourself.
four milestones to consider
MATERNITY
Recommended between
30 and 36 weeks.
FIRST 48
Shortly after birth, where you delivered.
SITTING UP
Around 6 or 7 months.
WALKING
Near the first birthday.
You decide which ones matter most to you.
the first year album
This is the heart and soul of all the effort.
One gorgeous album, started at your first reveal and finished after your last.
Everyone tells you the year goes fast. Nobody tells you how much of it you will forget. This is the part you keep..
Custom designed with up to twenty-five spreads and lovely personalization options. You choose your favorites at each reveal, so the album builds as the year does instead of landing on you all at once at the end.
It is paid in three parts, one at each reveal.
how it works
01
creative planning
Consult calls, your style guide, a location library, a plan built for you.
02
your photo session
Each session planned for the stage your baby is actually in.
Your creative fee covers the planning, the session, and the reveal. Artwork is chosen afterward.
03
choose what you love
Your reveal and ordering appointment, within about 3 weeks.
at your reveal appointments
Nothing is chosen in advance. You see the images first, then decide.
AT YOUR FIRST REVEAL
THE HEIRLOOM
The First Year Album*
25 spreads, built along the way for an incredible heirloom
Ten Favorite Photographs
with master retouching, ideal for the album
Your Artwork
one of three, chosen below
Full Gallery Upgrade
with color+contrast enhancements, no master retouching
*The album begins here and stays open all year.
THE MILESTONE
AT EVERY REVEAL AFTER
Your Album Keeps Building*
Ten Favorite Photographs
with master retouching, another chapter into the album
Your Artwork
one of three, chosen below
Full Gallery Upgrade
with color+contrast enhancements, no master retouching
*No second album to buy, just an installment.
choose one artwork below
Included with every milestone session. Pick a different one each time if you like.
THE FRAMED PRINT
A fine art 8x10 in a lovely frame, ready to hang the day it arrives.
THE MOUNTED PRINTS
Ten mounted 8x10s in a kraft presentation box, for versitiliy.
THE GRANDPARENT SET
Three matching 6x6 linen albums. One for your shelf, two to give away.
You choose at your reveal, once you've seen the images and we know what the session actually gave us. Larger pieces and wall groupings are available as upgrades.
bundle milestones, and save
TWO
MILESTONES
$700
$700
CREATIVE FEE
Saves $100
Your creative fee covers the planning, the session, and the reveal.
Every session includes creative planning, a wardrobe consult, location support, and your reveal and ordering appointment afterward.
Sessions must be completed within 14 months of booking, or additional late fees apply.
Photographing just one milestone? That's a family session rather than a first year plan, and I'd love to do that with you. Ask about a single session.
THREE
MILESTONES
$1,000
CREATIVE FEE
Saves $200
FOUR
MILESTONES
$1,300
CREATIVE FEE
Saves $300
CREATIVE FEE
what families invest
Artwork is separate and chosen at your reveal, beginning at $1,600.
Families who photograph all three stages and order an album
generally invest between $5,000 and $7,000 across the year.
I would rather you know that now than find out in month three.
If that is not where this year sits for you, tell me on our call and we will try to build a petite option.
additional perks
24 birth announcement cards if you book a First 48 session.
Extended roundtrip travel — 30 to now 50 miles from 90038.
(approx. $80 value)Quarterly reminders with priority booking.
“We both thought, I’m not sure if she got anything great, because of the chaos of it all.
Then we saw them and were like, wow. Okay, these are incredible.”
Ryan and Ruthi
sample of the first year album
this is for you if
You want to BE IN THE PICTURES
not only the one taking them.
You would rather have A BEAUTIFUL ALBUM
than four hundred files lost in digital waste.
You want to PLAN AHEAD a little
so you don’t regret letting it pass you by.
You are ready for GUIDANCE
from the first call through to what hangs on your wall.
You want THE WHOLE YEAR
held together in one place, not scattered across three photographers.
perhaps most importantly
Acknowledging and honoring this sacred season of becoming.
You’ll slow in some ways and become fiercer in others. All within a body that is not the one you had, learning a job that nobody fully explains beforehand.
That is worth photographing. Not the composed version of you that you are waiting to become first. The one who exists right now, holding a little person who did not exist last year.
So you will be in the frame. In most of them, if I get my way.
