Wedding photos make me happy.  My heart just sings when I see images like this one.

Well, if you’ve been following my Facebook page or visiting my website in the last few months, you may have noticed that I’ve been posting more children and family sessions… a few high school seniors, too!  After getting family and child portrait requests for years, it’s finally official.  :)  Studio Noveau now has a children’s portrait line.  Hooray!

As my wedding clients have started families, they have asked for the same casually posed, personalized sessions they’ve come to love from me over the past few years, I’ve also been getting requests from people in the community who enjoyed my wedding work and wondered if I’d photograph their family.  At first, I limited the sessions I offered; I was working full time plus shooting weddings.  Then I quit my full-time job to pursue photography, but wanted to devote all of my time to weddings.  But little by little, I  kept getting requests from local families.  It took a while for me to realize how much I enjoy this aspect of photography, too!  I’ve always loved children but never realized how much fun they would be to photograph.  Besides, I often travel several hours for one wedding, so it’s pretty nice to be able to photograph portraits in the Gays Mills, Prairie du Chien, Boscobel, and Viroqua areas.  :)

So, consider this my formal announcement.  Studio Noveau Kids is open for business!  Make sure to check out my new children’s site.  It’s a work in progress and will be updated quite a bit in the next few months.  But here it is!  www.studionoveau.com/kids.

And on that note, I’m thrilled to announce my second big news of the year:

Studio Noveau will be opening a storefront in the Gays Mills community beginning March 1st.

My new storefront and gallery will be located in the new Gays Mills Mercantile Building.  The building is in the final stages of construction and I am so excited to move in that I can barely contain myself!  I’m absolutely ecstatic to be moving out of my home office and into a space that can welcome clients and the community while displaying my work.  It has been a long journey to get to this point.  My first senior portraits were photographed in 2004.  My first wedding was photographed in 2006.  In 2010 I quit my job in the non-profit sector and made the leap to full-time photography.  It’s been a wild and crazy ride, and I never expected life to take me on this path.  But I’m so humbly grateful for the support of my clients, friends, and family.  YOU have all made this possible.  I’ll be planning a grand opening soon, so stay tuned for more details.  In the meantime, if you drive by and happen to see me in the gallery, make sure to pop your head in and say hi!

Grateful.  Happy.  Excited.

With love and gratitude,

Rebecca

P.S.  Even though I will have a gallery, I still plan on remaining an on-location photographer.  I firmly believe that unique locations and the ability to travel to you is part of the service I offer, and your session with Studio Noveau will remain a backdrop-free experience.  (Yay!)

P.P.S.  If you were a family that I photographed in 2011 and are interested in having a quote or mini-testimonial featured on my new children’s site, please email me so I can add your thoughts to the site!  Thanks!

Next, Winny and Lee celebrated their wedding at the Los Altos History Museum, which you can read all about here! It is so fun to be an engagement, wedding, AND a San Francisco newborn photographer, because we have the amazing opportunity of watching these couples grow into beautiful families.

Courtney + Andrew + Logan found the very best day of the week to venture out to a favorite location of Logan’s for exploring, playing, walking, and enjoying the peacefulness of nature. Needless to say, following a three-year-old through the woods and around streams is definitely a workout, but it was incredibly fun and so worth it. It was an incredible privilege to capture meaningful photos for this happy family.

I had no idea what to expect with either location but boy did Red Rock kick my butt.  Not only is there 100+ steps to get to the top but there is a sharp hill/incline to climb before that.  I have asthma thanks to growing up with parents who smoked and also am allergic to cold temperatures which one of the side effects is my lungs shutting down when it is cold.  It was about 40 degrees that day but it was really windy at the park making the wind chill somewhere around 20 degrees or so. Those things combined with altitude and heavy camera gear made for an adventure! I don’t recommend it!  But I managed to do the session despite the wheezing and hives and the view from the top was definitely pretty awesome.  All of the pictures at Red Rock were done where the stage is so that in itself is kind of cool.

Echo Lake was a definite favorite though, surprisingly it was warmer to me up there despite it being about 10 degrees cooler (no wind!) and the sun was just awesome.  I guess Echo Lake is a bit above 12K so that part was neat too, the views are just amazing.  The kids weren’t digging the cold though so the session there lasted for maybe 10 minutes if that.

LOVE

"Corey Ann is a Wedding and Portrait Photographer in Northeast Ohio. Her work has been featured in books and magazines across the country. You can read the original blog post here Portrait | The Wilkey Family | Red Rocks Amphitheatre."

Enjoy the first set from Colorado – the pictures from the party!

I loved the cake SO much!  The notes actually played Happy Birthday if you followed the notes around the cake.

"Corey Ann is a Wedding and Portrait Photographer in Northeast Ohio. Her work has been featured in books and magazines across the country. You can read the original blog post here Event | Kayla & Tyler’s Surprise 16th Birthday."

I love watching Mom and Dad do the pass off-hand off. They seriously make the best parenting team!!