I’ve never claimed to be a baby photographer as my real specialty has always been weddings and when Erin and Mike contacted me they were having a baby and wanted me to photograph her homecoming, I was so excited. I had photographed Erin and Mike’s unforgettable wedding day in October, 2010. I explained to them I was not a newborn photographer and even sent them names of some outstanding baby photographer friends I know in the area, but they said they still wanted me to do it since they were comfortable with me and I gladly accepted. We decided to concentrate on a collection of lifestyle images and had made plans for the days following the baby girl’s birth, but things don’t always go as planned. When baby K was born, she was near death due to complications during labor and had to have an immediate blood transfusion to save her life. She then spent the next 8 days in the hospital as she miraculously recovered. I made some schedule changes and made sure I was there for Mom and Dad the day she came home and we were able to very tenderly get these photos of her and her little sweetness.
A little time has passed since then, and I have kept in touch with her Mom and Dad to see how little K is doing and she’s happy and healthy. I love watching her story unfold on Facebook and posts from her parents.
Baby K, you’ve stolen my heart and everyone else’s who’s lives you’ve touched.
Batavia Lifestyle Photography – Baby K
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Elite Photo’s Emerson Creek Wedding – Featured on Be U Weddings
Another of our weddings has been featured at the fabulous Be U Weddings. Click the picture to see the feature….. 
Elite Photo Wedding – Featured on Rustic Wedding Chic
Katryna and Pete’s wedding was featured on Rustic Wedding Chic today.
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Emerson Creek Pottery and Tea Room Wedding – Ashley and Stu
Ever since I met Stu and Ashley and heard about the unique farm wedding they had planned, I have been looking forward to this wedding day. It was an early fall day and the air was perfectly brisk, but with a bit of warmth still left over from summer. Ashley and Stu were married at 4:30 in the afternoon in a field overlooking a beautiful pond and wild grasses. The decor included handcrafted programs, wooden table numbers, a vintage photo booth, white chandeliers that filled the barn, homemade honey for each guest from Ashley’s family farm, and much more. One of my favorite parts of the day were all the zinnias and dahlias throughout the ceremony, reception, and in the girl’s bouquets. Every flower at the wedding was grown with love in Ashley’s grandmother’s garden. How fantastic is that!! This is a bride after my own heart, as the dahlia is my favorite cut, bouquet, and garden flower of all time and dahlias and zinnias are exactly the flowers that fill both ends of my vegetable garden every summer. My love of dahlias comes from my late Grandpa George. He loved the pon pon dahlia, and it’s become a love of mine to grow more and more of them each season. I may not have room for vegetables one of these years.
My other favorite part of this wedding was the amazing location. Emerson Creek Pottery and Tea Room has a beautiful barn, reception tent, great veranda complete with late night smores, horse stables, fields of corn, wild grasses, a pond, and a fabulous bridal suite that looks a bit like a chicken coop, but when you enter it is all chandeliers and old world benches. Beautiful!! The staff there makes everyone feel like family, too.
Lovely
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Grown With Love in Grandma’s Garden
