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Connor | First Birthday Party | Columbus Lifestyle Photographer

November 21, 2016 By // by kate

Connor’s First Birthday

Connor’s First Birthday

Connor’s First Birthday

Connor’s First Birthday

Our youngest nephew Connor turned ONE yesterday! ONE! I can’t believe it’s been an entire year since he came into this world.

He’s a vivacious, lively little dude, who has mastered the art of crawling, loves putting EVERYTHING in his mouth, playing with his big brother Tyler, and snuggling with their chocolate lab Dakota. He’s independent, hates to sleep, and loves to explore.

Watching him explore and discover the world is one of the biggest blessings in my life, and I can’t wait to see what this world has in store for him.

Expertise.com | Best Maternity Photographer in Columbus

November 18, 2016 By // by kate

Expertise.com released their list of the top 19 maternity photographers in Columbus yesterday, and we’re on it!

The fine folks behind Expertise.com started with a group of 179 photographers and narrowed it down to the top 19, by rating us all across 25 metrics.

“Our goal is to connect people with the best local experts. We scored maternity photographers on more than 25 variables across five categories, and analysed the results to give you a hand-picked list of the best maternity photographers in Columbus, OH.”

There are not words to express how thrilled I am by this, and unbelievably flattered I am to be included in a group of such amazing talent.

If you, or anyone you know is engaged, about to become engaged, or expecting, I’d love to sit down over a cup of coffee (or wine) and get to know you, and talk further about what you’re looking for!

So many, many thank’s to all of my clients, friends, & family for all of the love and support!!! There is no way I could have done this without you.

The entire article can be viewed here.

Katy + Josh | Christmas Card Photos | Columbus Lifestyle Photographer

November 15, 2016 By // by kate

I met Katy & Josh while photographing a wedding earlier this fall, and pretty much fell in love with them both on the spot. They are two of the most open, gregarious, loving people you’ll ever meet. When I was asked to photograph them for their Christmas card, I was through the roof.

“We didn’t know we were making memories, we just thought we were having fun”

Katy reached out a couple of weeks ago, asking if we still had time to get a session in for Christmas card photos… my response was instant, OF COURSE WE STILL HAVE TIME! I asked Katy if she had any specific ideas about their session, and we hit the ground running.

We spent last Sunday evening at Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park west of Columbus, where laughter and conversation flowed like water.

The energy that these two share is magnetic and so full of love, the entire session was a dream, and I can’t wait to get them back in front of my camera again!

Katy & Josh | Christmas Card Photo Shoot

Weekend in Review | k.H.a.lifestyle photography | Columbus Lifestyle Photographer

November 14, 2016 By // by kate

This was the first weekend since we moved into our home in Dublin, and really since we’ve been in Ohio that we didn’t have a list a mile long of unpacking boxes or house projects to get done.

So we decided to explore.

Friday night started with me teaching my youngest brother in law (Curt, you’re also currently my favorite brother in law) how to make a kick ass meal, with only a few slight hiccups. Also, probably the most exciting moment of my last week, I found a store that carries Los Vasco’s wine. The wine that has long been the house red at my mom’s house, and reminds me of home, so I did what any sane rational woman would do, I bought three bottles. (which, to my credit, was less than the case that was my knee-jerk reaction to finding out here)

Saturday, Jeff woke me up asking if I wanted to try out a new coffee shop on High Street in Worthington, which turned into walking all along High street, drinking coffee and poking through the shops. Knowing that we didn’t have anything waiting on us at home, we decided to expand our exploring up into Delaware, for more poking around and lunch.

As we drove, I hit up Yelp, (which I must say, is an app that I use on the daily, especially now that I’m exploring in a whole new part of the country) to find us a place for lunch, and we landed at Restoration Brew Worx.

KILLLLLLER good food and great beer. And hard cider. Jeff and I took advantage of the exploring time to start to nail down details of a new project that we have in the works, as well as stopping every oh, three feet, for me to snap another photo. (Thank God for a patient husband)

Drove a couple hours up I71 to Akron, to photograph the coolest birthday bash I’ve ever seen for a fellow photographer, then back to Cbus.

Sunday brought more exploring with Jeff, this time up to Sunbury, which is a small town to the north east of the city, again poking through small shops before meeting up with my friend Heather and her family for lunch at the Firehouse Tavern for burgers and again, beer. (hey, it’s the weekend)

To wind the weekend up, I had a session at Battelle Darby Metro Park, with two of the most fun people I’ve had the pleasure of working with. They pretty much gave me creative license with their session, but more about that when I post their session’s blog.

Sunday was capped off with butternut squash soup Jeff had waiting, a big pile of blankets, a super smooshy big chair, and a roaring fire in the fireplace.

As far as weekends go, one of the best we’ve had since we moved.

Katy & Josh | Christmas Card Photo Shoot

Ally & Brad | Lost Creek Memory Barn | Columbus Wedding Photographer

October 9, 2016 By // by kate

I second shot with Jenn Daniels a couple of weekends ago, capturing Ally & Brad’s big day. It was GORGEOUS.

The fall leaves were at the height of their colors, the sun was shining, and the Lost Creek Memory Barn was stunning.

Their bridal party was a riot, they were all so much fun together, the laughter and love was perfect.

Hannah + Sam | Alum Creek | Columbus Portrait Photographer

August 24, 2016 By // by kate

So moving across the country has been difficult, to say the least. This week, I put feelers out through the Columbus chapter of the Rising Tide Society (which if you’re a creative entrepreneur, you HAVE to check it out) to see if I could talk anyone into modeling for me, as I’ve spent the majority of the summer networking, rather than shooting.

Enter Hannah and her husband Sam.

They agreed to meet me, and fellow photographer Joslyn Crowl (check out her work here, she is AMAZING) out at Alum Creek State Park for an impromptu session.

Hannah and Sam are two of the nicest, sweetest people you’ll ever meet, and they were a dream to work with. They put up with us posing them standing in the water, which progressed to Sam stretching out fully in the shallows, and did so with such ease, and with good humor, and with big smiles throughout.

Watching the two of them interact, and the way that they both looked at each other, you could see how much they love each other. The late summer evening light was PERFECT, and I can’t wait to get them back in front of my camera again.

Weekend in Review | k.H.a.lifestyle photography

August 15, 2016 By // by kate

Like many of our weekends since moving, this weekend was filled with family time. Which was a huge part of why we decided to completely uproot our lives and move across the country. (side note, I still can’t believe how many changes there have been this summer, it’s been CRAZY!)

Friday night we drove up to Galion to support our brother-in-law Matt, who’s in his first year as the head coach for Galion Tigers, with my other brother-in-law Curt. I forgot how much fun high school football games are, which is a good thing, as we’ll be at many more this fall, cheering on the Tigers.

Continuing our exploration of our new state, we stopped at Tavern at the Creek, in Galena, for pizza and beer on the way home from the game… It could not have been more perfect, sitting out side, eating pizza, drinking beer, and listening to the crickets and the water.

Saturday was spent playing with three of our nephews, splashing around in the pool, chasing the dogs, & BBQ-ing with friends & family…. and then naps, because sun, humidity, and water can really take it out of you… Saturday was the first time that we’ve had a big pot luck/getting lots of people together since we moved, and it was PEEERRRFECT.

Dinner was exploring again, to a place Jeff found in Dublin, Los Gaucho’s Taqueria… their al pastor tacos were to die for, and thankfully, it’s an easy drive from the house we just bought. (excuse the crappy cell phone quality photo, as we were both drooling from smelling the tacos the whole drive home, and didn’t want to wait for me to bust out my big camera)

Sunday brought on more exploring, this time to the Columbus Art Museum, and then lunch at Acre, a farm to table place here in Clintonville. We’re very much still in a place that we compare everything to Portland, and even by those lofty food standards this place kicked ass. (Check out their menu & website here) I opted for a Thai chicken wrap & chai tea, Jeff went for their mole bowl, and we both ordered the sweet corn cookie, which sounds weird, but is amazeballs.

So here we are again on another Monday, getting the week off to a productive start, planning out this week’s shoots, dealing with the paperwork side of things, planning for next weekends road trip, and the following weeks trip to Portland.

Happy Monday y’all!

from lunch at Acre.

tacos el pastor… Street tacos DONE RIGHT!

Our crazy BBQ potluck that we all tossed together for after playing in the pool.

Patio living, at Tavern at the Creek.

The Galion Tigers home opener.

Acre’s thai chicken wrap, chai tea, Jeff’s mole bowl, and two of the best cookies EVER.

Tory & Joey | The I Do BBQ | Columbus Wedding Photographer

April 25, 2016 By // by kate

Tory and Joey had their I Do BBQ at the Preble County Fairgrounds, in Western Ohio, after getting married in Destin Florida the week before.

They are such fun, gregarious people, who’s smiles say best online pharmacy for generic cialis it all. They and their families are so incredibly welcoming and loving, photographing their wedding was so much fun.

Their smiles say it all.