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The Vos Family

An Outdoor At-Home Fall Maternity Shoot

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Family & Kids

I’ve gotten to photograph the Vos family several times over the years (here as a family of 4 and here announcing baby #3) and I was so excited to be able to shoot Andrea’s first maternity session out of all of her pregnancies. (I’m so excited to be heading to them again this weekend for […]

Alice & Abhijeet

A Countryside Fall Maternity Shoot

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Family & Kids

I was so excited to see Alice & Abhijeet again, especially to photograph their growing surprise! This past May, they celebrated their marriage (finally, after rescheduling from fall 2020 because of the pandemic) here in Iowa and when Alice contacted me about doing pregnancy announcement photos when they came back to town to visit family […]

Taylor & Stanley

A Kent Park Fall Maternity Shoot

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Anniversary

As the luck of the calendar would happen, the day I set aside for mini sessions was Taylor & Stanley’s first wedding anniversary and I was soooo excited to see them again! It’s been one year since their stunning backyard tented wedding in Cedar Falls, a day I would redo again and again because it […]

Nicole & Matt

A Fossil Gorge Spring Maternity Shoot

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Family & Kids

We had one day to make this shoot happen and it was forecasting thunderstorms. (We all had major deja vu; remember their rainy engagement session and then a derecho in Iowa the week of their wedding, knocking out power to their venue???) Three hours before the session, the rain was still holding off, with high […]

Brooke & Zhas

A Waterworks Prairie Park Summer Maternity Shoot

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Family & Kids

I was so thrilled when Brooke contacted me about doing these photos! I had met Brooke and Zhas back in 2015 for their engagement session, followed a year later by their beautiful, intimate backyard wedding in Chicago (which has long lived as a favorite of mine!). So I was extra excited to see them again, now […]

Cortney & Christian

A Kent Park Iowa Winter Maternity Shoot

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Family & Kids

We scheduled this session months ago, knowing the it would be after the crash of wedding season and closer to Cortney’s due date. So there was no way of knowing what the weather would be like. We’ve had finicky weather all year (brutally hot when it is normally mild and really cold when it’s normally […]

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