The Stephanie Newman Photography Journal

This girl loves music, probably more than I do, she’s in marching band and plays at least 3 different instruments, one of which she brought to her session to have in a couple of her photos.

From chatting with her throughout her session, she has of love of not just music from her generation but also, “retro” music, like that of The Beatles and artists from the ’50s.

I think this session might be one of my favorite senior sessions of the year. Lindsey brought her mama and future sister-in-law to her session and I cannot tell you how many times I had to stop from photographing Lindsey to finish laughing at something her mom or her sister-in-law was doing to make Lindsey laug

Katie and I were next door neighbors almost my entire growing up years. The first year we lived in the house next to Katie and her family, we were invited to a block party. And that year, the kids put on a talent show for the adults.

Zoe blew me away during her senior session. Not only did she nail everything I asked her to do for poses, but she also told me she’s finishing her high school career at three different schools. DANG!

Last year I met Kayleigh and her adorable family of 3 when her mama booked a session with me while they were visiting Kayleigh, Taylor and Miles from Indiana. This year I got to meet Taylor’s family at another session with Kayleigh and her menfolk.

Not gonna lie, I probably said, “Oh my gosh Ruby!! You are so pretty!”, and squealed with delight, about 2943 times throughout this session with my niece. And given how many actual pictures I take throughout a session, that may seem like a lot, but it wasn’t.

I think every time Mel has the idea to do family pictures she wants to come up with some way to challenge me at each session. This time, she contacted me at the beginning of the month to have a session indoors for a group of 28 people

When I left our house the weekend we went to visit my brother-in-law and his family for Christmas, it was going to be cloudyish and cold. I can deal with that, as long as it wasn’t going to be frigid

Photographing my friends and their family makes my heart so happy. Kaye and Tim are very, very dear friends of mine. Kaye was in the same social group that I was in during college and her husband was in a similar group on campus