Fab Grad & Distinguished Young Woman… Jen from Leesville Road High School‘s Class of 2016! Jen was the fabulous winner of this summer’s Distinguished Young Woman of Wake County, and as such, received a session with Jen Mink Photography. Among her talents, she is an actress & dancer and as coincidence would have it, a …
Fab Grad… Jayden. Oh, where do I even start with this young lady from Enloe High School‘s Class of 2016?! You learned all sorts or things about ‘her’, her amazing business (Magical Memories Party Entertainment… you know, in case you needed the link again 😉 ) in her Fab Grad Spokesmodel Feature Blog last week. …
A little #TBT spotlight for my sweet, beautiful & oh so busy, Fab Grad Spokesmodel… Jayden McGrael from Enloe High School Class of 2016! Her individual session will be up next for sharing… but FIRST, as you will understand after reading what follows – she’s been a very busy girl and we haven’t had opportunity …
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Fab Grad… Olivia perfectly completes my fall gals from Longleaf School of the Arts, Class of 2016! You’ll remember my beautiful Olivia from her Fab Grad Spokesmodel session blog a few months ago. We had an extra special location for individual session… her own home!! From the first time I dropped off some of her …
Fab Grad… Emma of Longleaf School of the Arts, Class of 2016 is here on the blog! Emma really wanted some awesome urban spots for her session so we also started hers at the NC State Free Expression Tunnel… bright & REALLY early in the morning! There was no yawning going on though… from serious …
Fab Grad… Audra of Franklin Academy‘s, Class of 2016 is here for y’all to enjoy! You probably remember Audra from her Fab Grad Spokesmodel Spotlight and now it’s time for her personally planned 1:1 session. For this talented and artistic girl of an NC State Family, it was only natural that we do some of …
Here she is… our Miss North Carolina’s Outstanding Teen 2015, McKenzie Hansley! It’s been such a pleasure to sponsor the Miss North Carolina’s Outstanding Teens, and this year was certainly no different. We met up downtown, for our annual session in their state Capital. It was a gorgeous & very sun filled day. And Kenzie… …
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A little change from my norm these days, I had the privilege of being asked to capture the memories of Ray & Judy’s 50th Anniversary celebration in August. My presence was a surprise from their guests for Judy, in particular, who loves & treasures photos (how awesome & thoughtful is that?!). Ray & Judy had …
Fab Grad… Nola Grace of Longleaf School of the Arts, Class of 2016 is next up for the September session blogs! Y’all may remember, our beautiful Nola Grace from her Fab Grad Spokesmodel Spotlight. Now it was time to do her personally planned 1:1 session. For this session, she wanted to do it in the …
Fab Grad… Jasmine of Longleaf School of the Arts, Class of 2016 starts out the September session blogs! We couldn’t have had a more beautiful evening or setting to capture this extraordinarily beautiful young lady! I met up with her at Makeup for Your Day, where she was getting her hair & make-up pampered for …
Presenting Alabama Twin Seniors, Wes & Savannah. Otherwise known as… my handsome nephew & beautiful niece! Wes (Weston) & Savannah came into my world when they were 6… their dad & my sweet sister met, fell in love & married. From the time that they met, these kids had such a special place in my …
My next beautiful spotlight… Olivia Bouzigard from Longleaf School of the Arts Class of 2016! In fact, she is the Student Body President of Longleaf and begins her Senior year… tomorrow!! Olivia describes herself as outgoing, positive and determined… extremely organized and when given an opportunity, she takes it to the fullest, giving it …
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My next beautiful spotlight… Nola Grace Brown from Longleaf School of the Arts Class of 2016! She is a dance endorsement candidate at this new fine arts focused, college preparatory high school downtown. Joining the Longleaf family as a sophomore in the school’s founding year, she will graduate as a part of the school’s first …
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I’m so excited to start truly introducing y’all to my amazing Fab Grad Spokesmodels for the year! We’re starting off with a beautiful spotlight, Audra Chenoweth from Franklin Academy Class of 2016! Audra was hand selected to be a Fab Grad Spokesmodel after being recommended by a fellow FGSM, an in depth application and enjoyable …
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Here they are! I’m so very pleased to introduce y’all to my very fabulous, sweet & beautiful Class of 2016 Fab Grad Spokesmodels and share with you the wonderful time we had at our group session… This is my second year running the Fab Grad Spokesmodel program (what many know as ‘Senior Rep’s)… it is …
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I was quite honored last year when asked to become an official sponsor of the Miss North Carolina‘s Outstanding Teen 2014. My daughter, Lizzy & I even got to attend the pageant (our first), where among all the other extraordinary things going on… there was this AMAZING tap talent that blew us both away and …
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It’s the Miss America Organization’s, Miss North Carolina & Miss North Carolina’s Outstanding Teen 2015 pageant week and my girl & I are looking forward to heading downtown for the finals this weekend! (as soon as I can decide which one to go to 😉 ). Understandably, while I’m quite excited to – it wouldn’t …
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Oh where to start with this beautifully talented Raleigh Senior?! And when I say beautiful… I mean the kind of girl that genuinely exudes beauty from the inside out. There’s obviously the pretty brown eyes, dimples & smirk. However, she’s also sweet, with what I catch as the perfect little touch of sass. She’s polite, …
Oh these sweet adoring parents to be! They’ll absolutely make you melt viewing the love they share and seeing the excitement they have for the son that was on his way! I said to my own husband one day “boy, he sure does looove her!” and his response was “uh, yeah! anyone that sees any …
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What better way to start off this years sessions & warm up the winter months than with celebrating two wonderful people becoming parents and the arrival of their very special lil’ fella?! In February & March, we did both a couples & an individual maternity session, even a newborn session to celebrate this precious dream …
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As some of you already know, I believe very strongly in always growing, learning, pushing forward & yes, but of course, overachieving 😉 . The current ages of my kiddos have been, well, limiting and I don’t get to do nearly as much as I’d like at the moment… but am trying to very selectively …
The final scheduled session of 2014 & I couldn’t have dreamed of a more perfect way to finish off the year than with a special holiday session! Oh my… where do I even start with all the ways that I love & adore this one?!?!!! Beyond the fact that I smile & get mushy every …
Capturing memories for this Raleigh family was definitely my idea of a fun fall afternoon! We set it up as a mini lifestyle like session, unsure of how well the son would do or not… and it quickly became a fully loaded variety packed session. Turned out, we had absolutely nothing to worry about with …
What a treat it is to capture the same family again & again… to see their delightful children grow & change! And oh, how I adore this family in particular… who, as a matter of fact after their first session last November are the very ones that told me about the home which is now …
Time for a personal share :)… So, my sweet baby, my Trey-man, asked me the other week for the very 1st time: “Mama, Can you take another picture of me?” Any of my photog friends, in particular, will totally get what a momentous occasion this is! See, our kids have this thing we call ‘photographers …
This past Saturday was the perfectly beautiful fall day to capture memories for our dear friends, Tara & Jamie and their oh so precious pup, Finn. A little chill in the air but not too cold (definitely not too warm 😉 ), a little color change starting in the leaves and the beautiful golden hour …
I’m so excited to announce that I have 2 Mini Session days coming up! Not just regular mini session days, but a family event both for fall & for holiday… here at my home, with my family! With finding my specialty in Women’s photography & moving my focus full steam ahead into it, I knew …
Here we are… Fall 2014… a year & a half since I did my 1st round of sessions after formally forming my business, not even out of my corporate ‘day job’ yet. A year & a half since… I first met this delightful family! If you’ve been following me for a while, you may recall …
Congratulations to Stephanie Wiehe, Ravenscroft School Class of 2015… hand selected as my final Fab Grad Spokesmodel! As you may have noticed, she is my 2nd from the same school. Choosing to have such a limited group this year, I had no intentions of having more than one per school at this stage BUT then …
Congratulations to Robin Kikuchi, Ravenscroft School Class of 2015, on being hand selected as one of my Fab Grad Spokesmodels! It’s been so wonderful to work with her & have her as part of this very limited group! I can’t even begin to express how genuinely thrilled I am to have such an extraordinary & …
I’m so very pleased to congratulate Ashley Keefe, Enloe High School Class of 2015, on being hand selected as my very 1st Fab Grad Spokesmodel! I couldn’t be more pleased to have such a wonderful young lady representing my work and wanted to take a few moments to share a little more about her & …
Here they are! I’d like to introduce y’all to my very fabulous & beautiful Class of 2015 Spokesmodels: Ashley Keefe, Enloe High School Robin Kikuchi, Ravenscroft School Stephanie Wiehe, Ravenscroft School When I started to consider doing a ‘Senior Rep’ program (which I renamed as my ‘Fab Grad Spokesmodels’ 😀 ), the first thing that …
Travel to Wilmington to capture a wedding along the historic downtown riverside? ABSOLUTELY!! Even better… for the wedding of Jess & Chad? Without a doubt, YES!! You may remember Jess & Chad from their Engagement & Bridal sessions earlier this year… they’re a couple that I simply adore to pieces! I was quite honored that …
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Have you ever seen a pair of sweeter baby dolls?!?! I have to say, the friends we’ve made through my daughter’s dance classes these past 3 years are amazing! In addition to being such sweet friends, several have also found interest in my work, becoming awesome clients as well and here we have another! We …
You may remember these precious sweetie pies from their family mini session back in the fall. Well… this young fella is 1 already!! To celebrate, I marched my camera up the street (a whole 3 houses 😉 ) to their home & great back yard to capture a bit of this special time in his …
Here they are!!! SO excited to finally get to share the stunning & beautiful, newly married, Mrs. Thompson’s Bridal Portraits from earlier this month. Oh, okay… I know, it’s only been about 2.5 weeks so ‘finally’ might be a little stretch… but it feels like forever when holding onto these things 😉 . I really …
I know, I know… I’ve been so quiet on here so far this year that y’all can hear the pins dropping & birds chirping 😉 . All for good reason though, as I’ve been a busy, BUSY bee working away on updating & revamping this site (about 90% done 🙂 ), tackling a big family …
Beautiful new faces to finish out the mini session season on a great note! I’ve known this sweet Mama & lil’ Miss for a while now from our kids gymnastics classes and thoroughly enjoyed getting to see & capture the whole family together! Their session was also held at the JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, …
Another loyal family… just amazing to be able to capture this family from pregnancy to newborn to now almost 9 months old!! And… OMGosh… are they growing up so adorably or what?!! It was a significantly chilly & even worse, windy morning but given the opportunity to reschedule, they asked to go forward anyway… what …
Wow… how absolutely fabulously precious as she can be is this little sweetie pie?!! Lil’ Miss Cailyn was a warm bundle of pink in our fall mini session posted recently, but here you can finally see all her sweetness at home… from her fabulously wild hair & stunning blue eyes to her ten lil’ piggies …
As I navigate through my photography journey, exploring new areas and really focusing in on ‘specialties’… I find myself like a giddy school girl! After all the years of dreaming to be able to do something wonderfully fabulous & creative with myself… I am amazed that THIS is ‘my’ work! My poor hubby has to …
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What a pleasure it was to meet this sweet, sweet family!! We met at Joyner Park in Wake Forest to start out our day with a Fall Mini Session (which would later be followed by a precious newborn session at their home… stay tuned for much more on that soon! 😀 ). When this very …
What a chilly but otherwise beautiful morning we had for my 1st ever ‘Mini Session’, also 1st session at Yates Mill, here in Raleigh. To make it even better… gotta love loyal clients!! You may remember this absolutely adorable red head & her Mama from their spring session of images for Father’s Day. This time, …
Oh my… do we love & adore this family!! I met Mama, Jen, at work… goodness – I don’t even know how many years ago now & immediately liked her! Not really sure how anyone could not – one of the kindest & sweetest friends a person could have! Over the years our friendship has …
I’m quite excited to announce my very 1st Mini Sessions! I had planned on waiting another season or so to give Mini’s a try… but thanks to interest of several wonderful clients, I’ve put together a couple days THIS season!! I have a morning in South Raleigh, an evening in Wake Forest and had originally …
I am SO very excited to finally get to introduce you to my new passion & spark… boudoir & glamour!! I had not intended to get into this genre, or at least hadn’t really put any thought into it yet… until this sweet client approached me to help her with her fiance’s wedding gift. And …
What a fabulous session with the Clark Family at the NC Museum of Art! This was truly a treat… a beautiful family inside & out and to top it off – what a great location they asked for! And… oh my, check out how perfectly they dressed for the setting! Love the black & white …
Lil’ Miss C & her mom are another pair of our friends from our 1st year of dance class in “Carolina Tots” (mommy & me)… when the girls were only 1.5! Now they’ve doubled in age, finishing up their a whole year of dance class on their own & celebrating 3rd birthday’s already!! Lizzy & …
What a beautiful day for Mary & Nick! Their love radiates and oh my goodness do they keep each other happy… I can’t even tell you how many images I have of them giggling & laughing & just simply enjoying each other… not posed that way for my camera but so purely & naturally! It …
OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS!!! I hope y’all are sitting down & are prepared for all the cuteness that is about to come your way!! Meet sweet lil’ Miss Amelia… daughter of my long time friend, Geri and just the most adorable little red head you could ever find. These photos were done in preparation for …