The Princess and the Pea//Gilbert fairytale child photographer

The Inspiration: I had felt recently that I had been investing far too much time and effort into my dance brand recently and not nearly enough creativity and passion into the child brand. With the child brand being my first love I felt it was long past time to reinvest into the fairytale story telling side of my photography that I first fell in love with.

Even still I wanted to do something different. As much as I love the classic Disney stories that contain beautiful princesses and far off adventures, I wanted to do something that came with less of a predetermined look to it. So I pulled an old idea from my list of creative session just waiting to come to life.

The princess and the pea. An old classic story with a hazy moral (girls should be picky? perpetually uncomfortable? nobles are unbearable snobs? I never did understand the point of this one) but a perfect opportunity the throw my own styling and creativity into the set.

I debated for a minute brining this indoors, but with the weather so perfect during Arizona winter, I decided on setting up at the meadow in mesa instead. With the setting determined, the rest of the styling fell into place with ease. I had already created the moss covered ladder for another session so I headed off to goodwill to find the assorted bedding the princess would require. The dress, cape and gown had already been purchased from Joyfolie in the fall when I had made a first half hearted attempt to bring the vision to life. My beautiful model I had recently met while doing company photos for Rhythm and Motion Dance center and she was the perfect final piece to the vision.

The Session: The best part about creating sessions like this for children is that they are just FUN set ups. What child wouldn’t love climbing on top of a giant pile of mattresses? The set up came together flawlessly, with the pink blooms of the location the perfect complement to the colors of our pile of mattresses.

The review: I left the session reminding myself how desperately I need to do more creative sessions like this one. It brings me such a joy to create artistic images like this session.

If you love what you see here you can Contact Me here to set up your own session!

Peach Blossom Family Sessions//Gilbert Arizona Child Photographer

The Inspiration: One of the greatest disappointments to me as a photographer who LOVES beautiful settings is that our floral bloom season here in Phoenix Arizona occurs so early. Every year I find myself wandering in the blooms alone. All I want to do is go out and create beautiful images in the flowers and I find many of my families have not yet recovered from the fall season of photographs.

Sometimes I consider enouraging families to SKIP the annual family holiday photos in favor of these beautiful spring images (but then of course my sanity returns). I understand the importance of updated family photos for the christmas cards and doing pictures when the temperatures are UNDER 90 degrees and there’s never any guarentee our spring temperatures will hold such nice days.

BUT THE PEACH BLOSSOMS.

The shortest floral season of all and it comes first. Lasting just a few days, I can never resist them. The last bloom season was absolutely glorious. We had just enough rain with a mild enough start to the spring that the blooms came out in FULL force and lasted for such a long time. I will always love the grove in Agritopia for offering such a stunning setting for photographs. The farm does a wonderful job of maintaining beautiful scenes and allows photographers the privilege of renting them out from time to time.

The Session: The peach blossoms are one of those sessions that always lend themselves to extra joyful and light hearted images. The blossoms are beautiful, the weather is gorgeous, and it feels like waking up from the dark days of winter into the light bright beauty of spring. It’s a session where everyone seems to naturally frolic and play. I had the privilege last year of not only photographing some beautiful ballerinas, but also this amazing family among the blossoms.

The Review: Of course I’ll be back for this stunning setting for as long as I am allowed! Sessions happen on February 22nd in the evening this year. You can snag one of the 2 spots remaining here