2013 travels : personal

I'm excited to finally be sharing my travel plans for this year!

 I know I have people from all over the states that read my blog,

so if I'll be in your area I would love to photograph you!

E-mail me at Hannah@hannaheliseblog.com and I would be excited to set something up. :)

The states/places I'm headed I will be doing other activities and have some other plans

already scheduled, so if I get multiple inquiries for photo sessions in the same location,

I may only be able to accept the first people that ask due to my availability!

Nashville, TN : June 

Fayetteville, AR : June 

Houston, TX : July 

Charlotte & Greensboro, NC : July 

Northern IA : July and August 

Detroit, MI : August 

Chicago, IL : August

Southern MN : October

  so if you are in any of these areas and would be interested in pictures,

e-mail me and I am happy to give you more specifics! :)

Also, I'm pretty sure on all these travel plans at this point,

but some things could still change over time so keep that in mind.

a few random photos I took last week...
challenging myself to 'practice' photography more often..so important!

~H. Elise  

portraits of Toby, Gina + Aoife : iowa city, ia family & children photographer

 
 sometimes I get to photograph a session where everything totally seems to fall into place,

and between the lighting, fun outfits, sweet people, and locations, this was one of those sessions!

Gina had e-mailed me about pictures and said,

 "we would love, love, love to be able to do this on a mild, sunny spring day

when the flowers are in bloom.."

and although it was slightly more hot than mild when we took these, ;)

 it was definitely a gorgeous day!

I had briefly met Gina before we did her pictures, but I so enjoyed getting

to know her, Toby & Aoife [pronounced ee-faa] better while I photographed them..

Aoife was hands down the best baby I've ever photographed.

Smiled the whole session--talk about a dream!

I asked them if they had ever done family pictures before,

and Gina said no, and that she hadn't really even done them growing up,

and Toby replied, "aside from Sears? umm, no." :P

Regardless, they were totally natural and relaxed, and just enjoyed each other and their baby.

Whenever I'm photographing families, the more they can interact on their own thrills me,

and it really shows in these frames.

So excited to blog these. :)

see what I mean about happy?! this was when Aoife literally just stared at me for 10 seconds. I'll take it. :P favorite. no posing...Aoife, you rock girl. I think I'll hire you to show all the other babies I photograph how to behave. :) funny sidenote, I went to look at this location hours before their shoot  and saw this baby robin in the bush, and it was still there in the evening. love,
~H. Elise