I can't remember if I've mentioned before or not but this past year I did a lot of work for a fellow photographer, Kelly Cortes, who is the creative awesomeness behind Creative Imaginations Photography. I had found her on Facebook after I moved to NC since she was a local photographer (although she is based in FL but has a branch up here since she has a nice clientele built up in the area from living here before) and I love to follow other photographers. Anyway...one day she posted that she was looking for a photographer in the area to cover Military Homecomings for her...I answered it and started working for her and am SUPER glad I did! I had been thinking of doing homecomings for awhile but am glad that this opportunity came up because she definitely has more of an "in" in this area than I do and I've been able to do and learn a lot under her mentorship. :)

I have had a LOT of fun doing homecomings for her and am so grateful for the experience they've brought me and for the opportunity to capture such a wonderful moment for these families! As a military wife myself it really touches home and it's hard not to get emotional doing these sessions. It meant a lot of late nights/unpredictable times but so worth it! Especially capturing a dad's first time holding his child...those ones get me the most!!!! I think I did around 15 homecomings last year for Kelly and it was really so great! Here are a couple of links to a few of them that I did. 

Butler HC

Atwood HC

Vu HC

Boni HC

Towards the end of the year Kelly's other associate photographer in the area was out of town for awhile so I got to take over some other sessions for her, including some family sessions, a maternity session, a Mom and me session, and a 9 month old session. I was excited to add some more sessions to my experience with her! 

Maternity Session

Mom & Me Session (This has to be one of my favorite non-homecoming sessions I've done for Kelly...I LOVED how it turned out and being able to focus on doing a larger variety of mom/daughter pictures since that was all that the session was for! Normally in a family session I only do a few of mom/daughter since there's a lot of other poses with other family members that need to get done. It was fun to just focus on mom/daughter for this one! 

Craig Family Session

Bean Family Session

9 month old session

Anyway, it's been a wonderful opportunity/experience working with Kelly and learning from her. I've been able to go to her for advice, critiques, even shadowed her at a wedding before I did Tim and Maurissa's, and it's been awesome to have someone to talk photography with! I'm super grateful for all her help and look forward to learning more! I am sad this year will be a lot slower for me session wise but am glad I was able to do so much last year and know I wouldn't have been able to do half as many sessions as I did without her!  Yay for stalking Facebook right? :) So thank you ever so much Kelly! You're simply amazing :)