I’m a planner.  I like to plan things.  I like to plan for sessions, I like to plan birthdays, I like to plan vacations.  I like to make lists.  I REALLY REALLY like crossing things OFF my list.  I like the KNOWN.  I like having a plan and knowing what path our life will travel on.  So when I started this business, I had a 5 year plan for Whitehill Photography.  So far, things were going great along that plan and were moving even a bit faster than I planned.  I prided myself on what I had accomplished as a NEW photographer here in Murfreesboro.  I prided myself on every gorgeous smile, every ray of sunshine, and each and every home that had my portraits hanging in it.  I never would have imagined that in such a short time, I would have been voted Best of Parenting 2010, Favorite Children’s Photography.  I never would have BELIEVED that I would have been voted Rutherford County Ruthie’s, Best Photographer 2010.  I was in awe and amazed by the path that God was leading me on.

Then sometimes things change.

And then sometimes things change ALOT.

As of June 2011, Whitehill Photography will no longer be located in Murfreesboro, TN.

Its a simple matter really.  My husband’s job is moving.  And where he goes, I surely will follow.  As of right now, we don’t know the full details of WHERE we’ll be moving.  It could be as simple as a short move northwest – to Nashville.  It could be as far as moving states away.  But what I do know is, our time here in Murfreesboro has come to an end. In a few weeks we will know the full details and I’ll be sure to keep my fans and clients in the “know”.  If we are moving to Nashville, then I can certainly still have sessions with my clients here in Murfreesboro!

So what does this mean?  Well I have an email inbox full of requests for Spring, Summer and Fall sessions.  As it stands, I only have 2 months to try to fit everyone in and with full sessions and ordering prints, I just don’t see how I can manage (especially considering how much rain we usually get in the spring)  So for the first and probably only time, Whitehill Photography is offering mini all digital sessions, at a very very affordable price.  These sessions will be 30 minutes sessions (not themed for any season, etc) of your choice and with the price of the session, you will receive a disk with all of your digital proofs and rights to reprint those images!
The sessions are only mini sessions (30 minutes).  Therefore they will not be available for Senior sessions, infant (babies under 6 months) sessions or extended family sessions.  There is just simply NOT enough time to try to attempt any of those sessions for a mini.  IF you are really wanting a session with me before Whitehill Photography moves and you would like a regular full session then I do have a small handful of full session dates available.  Please contact me quickly, however, I do believe they will go quickly!  All full sessions will be allowed a discount of $50 off the session fee.  That only applies to full sessions booked.

Below is the flier with the full details.

So I’m sure you’ve probably noticed that the blog has been painfully ignored the past few weeks.  In an effort to make the fastest possible turn around for all my clients await proofing galleries for Christmas cards, etc – I put blogging (and Facebook posting) on hiatus.  So starting today, I’ll be posting a few images from some of the sessions I had the past few weeks.  I hope that everyone had a delightful Thanksgiving and that the beginning of their Christmas season is going smooth and wonderfully!

I’m starting off with one of the winners of my giveaway.  Unfortunately my first winners had things come up and they were not able to make it for their free sessions so we pulled more names out of the hat.  SOO, I was able to photograph this sweet little girl again.  If you’ve kept up with my blog, you’ll have seen her throughout her first year and here she is again at 18 months.  She is ADORABLE!  Enjoy!

I had  a chance to photography sweet little C in his home last week.  Mom and I had a good time invoking the best smiles, giggles, serious stares and mischievous little grins out of this cutie!  The little guy is the younger brother to 3 adorable big sisters and mom has had them each photographed in their baptismal gown, at around the same age.  We couldn’t let him go without the same portraits!  We then moved on to some sweet images of him just showing off his latest skills!  I can’t wait to see what he’s up to at our next session.  Enjoy!

I’m a little behind on blogging as we enter the end of the outdoor portrait season.   But don’t worry, I still plan on blogging all the sessions!

Here is big boy Eli!  I remember first seeing this sweet kiddo when he was about 6 months old and couldn’t get over what a good combination of his mom and dad he was.  And you know what, about 6.5 years later, its still the same!  He has such a vibrant, funny personality, a gorgeous smile and those eyes!  Enjoy.

For anyone who knows me, you know how much my family means to me.  You know that two of the things I love the most are photography and my own family.  So when I get a chance to spend an evening photographing my own sweet, smart, beautiful, funny, AMAZING little girls – I am ONE HAPPY lady.  And at age 3 and 6, both of my girls are really starting to understand how having beautiful images of them makes my heart sing.  They know that when Mommy does the “happy laugh” that she is overjoyed.  Let’s just say there is PLENTY of happy laughing from these images.  Furthermore, those that are really close to me know that I have spent SIX (yes 6) months planning this shoot.  I knew what I wanted and have searched and looked and shopped until I found exactly what I had in mind to go with these images.  So here is a SMALL snippet of what my girls gave me last night!  If you can’t tell, I had a very specific theme in mind here: Vintage back to school.  Enjoy.

And I love these sweet silly expressions from them too!  They make me laugh!

I have to say that I’m very excited to post this sneak peek. I love this family, I love this little boy, I love the light we had tonight, I love what they all wore to the session, AND I love how connected they truly are to each other.   We originally thought we would spend the session focused on sweet baby L but after mom and I talked, we realized we would make sure we got PLENTY of family shots in too.  I really really wanted to get some sweet shots of this family doing what they do best, loving on each other. I think we scored! Along with some SUPER cute shots of little L, as well! Enjoy.

And one of my favorites from the night!!

Summer

Meet Caroline, one of my last seniors for the season!  She’s a gorgeous girl and I think we got some images that really represent HER.  Good luck with your senior year Caroline!  I know you’ll do wonderfully.  Enjoy.

Th Sutherland family is a cute, sweet family filled with gorgeous brunette daughters that were just a joy to work with!   The weather was perfect, Cannonsburgh Village in the fall is just BEAUTIFUL and even though a Saturday there means LOTS of other people, we had a great time finding nooks that would be just perfect for their family.  Their oldest daughter Marissa, is a senior at Lavergne High School this year so we took a few extra of just her to highlight that!    Enjoy.

I was thrilled when Emma’s mom Monica contacted me, all the way from Franklin, for a session for her GORGEOUS daughter Emma.  I love hearing how others find me and decide they must have my work for their children.  Its such a neat thing to hear about who is connected to who and how. Anyways, we had an awesome session this weekend.  It was UNUSUALLY warm evening for the beginning of October.    Shooting in 90 degrees, with some  beautiful fall foliage peaking through made me WISH for the 70s from earlier in the week.  But we “trudged” through and have some really beautiful images to show for our hard work! Enjoy.

Summer