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Meet Katelyn and Ben and their sweetest new addition, Baby Warren.
Michigan Family Photographer | Downtown Ann Arbor Lifestyle Portrait Session As some of you may have heard, Dayna Mae Photography got a new home this spring in the heart of Nickles Arcade Downtown Ann Arbor (a post on that to come realllll soon – stay tuned!) When Mishelle and I first fell in love with …
Peony Gardens Mini Sessions | Dayna Mae Photography | Ann Arbor Portrait Photographer Something about the magic of the Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden blooms the first week of June every year always leave me breathless! (usually because of the intoxicating heavenly scent!)
Ann Arbor Michigan Lifestyle Photographer | Michigan Portrait Photographer “She’s always been yours.” Courtney’s mom said as everyone in the room wiped the tears of joy from their face. “God made her just for you.” she continued to say…
Heart of Home Sessions | Michigan Portrait Photographer You know those people that you meet that seem like they were always supposed to be there? Meet Sarah + Sean. Yup. They are those people.
Michigan Family Photographer | In Home Portrait Session | Troy Michigan After their Waldenwoods wedding two years back, Josh, Charlene, and their sweet little girl Lekszi invited me into their home to welcome 8 week old baby brother, Warner. This lifestyle portrait session at their home in Troy, Michigan was the sweetest. From the …
Fall Mini Sessions | Ann Arbor Lifestyle Portrait Session If you are like 90% of the families, couples + clients I’ve interacted with in the past 7 years of running a portrait driven business, maybe you can identify with one, or all of the following sentences: “Maybe when I loose 10 pounds” “Our kids are …
Birth. One word, that can mean so many different things to so many women, but have the same, most breath-taking impact on us all. There really is nothing quite like it, in all the world.
Motherhood: the messy, the beautiful, the generations: documented. These sessions blew my mind with how raw they are looking back on them. I mean, as a mother, these are the moments I long to be captured for my future grandchildren… and I’m so thrilled with being able to deliver that to these Mother’s from the …
Mom and me minis hit super close to home after the possible chance of my mom, the strongest person I’ve known, being a memory. two days after I found out that for the first time, I was going to be a mommy, my mom, and soon to be grandma to our first born – was …
Meet Travis + Katie and peek inside their Woodsy Engagement Session in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Soul Mates, tailgating partners, Â lovers of Nachos, their 3 legged Cat, Frank, and Erine their fur baby. Their session was something special, because it was them. Katie and I had been stalking the weather for nearly 2 months waiting …
Stages. I love documenting life stages for my clients. The “mini” everyday moments are worth capturing – and if your looking for a “reason” to take family photos  – here it is. These “mini” everyday moments are ever so fleeting.
Meet Baby Easton, and his adorable parents new parents, Andrew and Jess. Sessions at home, have me suuuppppper emotional, as the memories of OURÂ first few weeks home with our little babe, flood back something fierce! But – that’s also why they hold such a deep place in my heart….
This story isn’t the easiest to write, but from it, some of the most raw, real and emotional work of mine emerged to the surface, and from it,  I feel the heartbeat of adoption can be heard.  Which all started with Jon and Courtney, being willing to out of humility and vulnerability, share their story…