services
choose your own adventure
1. choose your date
Contact me to let me know you are interested in a session. I’ll answer any of your questions and give you access to my online calendar. Pay the creative fee and reserve your session in ten minutes, on your own time.
2. choose your session
There are three sessions to choose from - extended, full, and mini. Each one is a different approach on capturing your story, but I leave all of them having fallen in love with you. Creative fees reserve your date, my time, and the creative experience. They do not include any products or files.
3. choose your collection
Collections are chosen only after you’ve seen all your finished photos, so you only pay for what you love. Each collection includes access to my online gallery, where you can order hand crafted gifts and prints, share your stories with loved ones, and even upload and backup your own photos.
10% of all creative fees are donated to New Mexico Dream Center and occasionally other local non-profits.
prices are subject to change.
sessions
extended
best value
up to 12 hrs of coverage
250+ photos to choose from
An extended day in the life of your family - the smiles, chaos, and everything in between. Extended sessions are best every one to two years to document the long days and rapidly disappearing years.
$1,000
full
most popular
up to 3 hrs of coverage
60+ photos to choose from
A full, story-length session, is a comfortable amount of time for a glimplse into your life as it is right now, with enough photos to make into an album.
$300
mini
limited availability
up to 45 min of coverage
20+ photos to choose from
Ideal for first time clients, a mini is just long enough to be a part of the documentary photography experience and end up with a gallery of essential portraits for the wall.
$100
collections
premium
access to gallery for 30 days
all digital files in your gallery, regardless of the session you chose
$400 in product credit included
slideshow included
$600
standard
access to gallery for 30 days
20 digital files of your choice
$200 in product credit included
$400
basic
access to gallery for 30 days
10 digital files of your choice
$200
FAQs
What does a "documentary approach" mean?
Think of documentaries of cute penguins. The film makers don't move the penguins to a different iceburg because it just looks cooler. They don't go up and pose them. They don't tell them to say "cheese".
In fact, the integrety and all around awesomeness of their film relies on them not interfering at all with the natural cuteness of their subjects.
It's the same thing with my photography. I make observations and do all the work, to make sure you have the best possible perspective of your real memories to keep forever.
Who are these types of sessions for?
These sessions are for people who value experiences over stuff and impressing the Joneses. They are for you if you believe each person is afforded dignity, regardless of where they are in their life, including you. And they are for those of you wanting to nurture deeper connections through vulnerability and authenticity.
Will we get portraits?
I make lots of portraits during the session. I take elements from your enviroment to make unconventional portraits that say something about the individual you are right now. Each one is unique and beautiful. Ussually I will end up with at least one "camera-aware" or candid portrait that you are used to seeing, but they are not the main focus of the session.
What if my family is really boring?
Boring is such a misleading term! You have to remember that I am not there to make images of just something that happened. Events make boring stories no matter what. (That's why we never want to hear about some one else's vacations)
Do you have someone that you love? Someone you fight with? Something that makes your eyes light up, or a weird morning ritual that you didn't know was weird and now you do, but you still do it and probably everyone else should too?
You are not boring.
What if my kids misbehave and won't sit still or smile?
Then they are just like my kids - and every single other kid I've ever photographed. Or met. I love letting kids be kids at these sessions. One day they are going to grow out of so much of this, and in many many years you'll want not just the cherry picked. You'll want all of those gorgeouse pouty camera faces for blackmai- er, memories.
What if I don't like the pictures?
Then they're gone, adios. The purchase of a collection is not at all required, only pay for what you love.