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Award Winning Family Photographer | From Maternity & Babies to Seniors & Underwater Space Coast - Brevard County FL Fernandina Beach FL Family Photographer | Neighborhood Lifestyle Family SessionAs much as I enjoy getting that coveted "everyone smiling at the camera" shot for my clients, I really LOVE capturing the connections and special moments during a lifestyle session. So when Mrs. A commissioned me for her family session and told me she wanted to do it in her neighborhood and keep it laid back, I knew this was going to be an awesome session. I hadn't been to her neighborhood before, so I was amazed at how gorgeous their street was. We had spoken about their vision for the session and the images and I worked with that to help create something special for them. I have so many favorites from this session and it was so much fun to shoot. We hung out around their home and in their neighborhood, capturing them in a place they love. This family is so sweet, fun, and loving and I love how that comes out in their images. You can see it in their faces and the way they look at each other.
The boys were coming to tickle me, can you tell? I love the look on Mr. Q's face and the hand at the ready!
They had the coolest tree swing in their back yard and of course, we had to get a good swing shot! I love interactive family images where everyone is laughing like in the next two images.
Mr. H has the best hair and the wind blowing it around in his face brings out his "wild" side. He loves to shake it back and forth too!
Towards the end of the session Mr. H was getting tired and was ready to nurse. I love capturing these sweet and fleeting moments between a mother and her nursling.
Thank you J Family for trusting me to capture these sweet moments for you! These will be treasured for many years to come. <3 Kim Owner/Photographer-Artist Kimberly Tank Art & Photography Need updated photos of your family? Have an empty wall that needs to be filled with a beautiful photograph of your family? Contact me today for more information on scheduling a family session! St Marys GA - Fernandina Beach FL Child Photographer | Project 52 - August-SeptemberIt's the middle of my busiest time of year, but I'm trying hard to make sure I keep up with my personal project. It's so easy to let this one slide when there are so many other things to do, client images to edit and albums to design. So here are the final days of summer.
Week 33 - Pizza at the Beach On my birthday back in April, we started a new summer tradition... pizza at the beach. During the summer, my favorite time to go to the beach is in the evening when it isn't as hot and usually not as crowded. Plus there's usually a beautiful sunset, and I'm a sucker for a good sunset. Before summer was over, I knew I had to capture this new tradition as part of my project 52.
Week 34 - Wave Jumper We love the beach, bet you can't tell, haha! My son loves running and jumping in the waves. I love capturing the joy on his face doing something he loves.
Week 35 - Planets in the Sky Venus and Jupiter lined up in the western sky this summer, and we missed it due to a cloudy sky the evening it happened. My son loves planets and outer space so we still wanted to see them, even if they weren't lined up anymore. So the next evening, we went down to the park downtown where we knew we'd have a clear view of the horizon and captured the planets in the sky.
Week 36 - Milky Way I've been wanting to try more astrophotography and take a picture of the stars in the sky. My son asked if we could go outside and look at the stars before we went to bed one night so once it was dark enough, we went out. We were using a star app on my phone to look for different constellations as well as trying to see if we could spot the Milky Way. It was hard to find, so I thought it would be the perfect time to pull out my camera to help us find it, since a long exposure can reveal more than our naked eyes can see at night. We found it! It's not the best picture of it, but for my first shot like this, I was happy with it. I'm hoping to play with these some more. I'd love to get a shot like this with my son in it, though I'm not sure he could stay still that long!
Week 37 - Waves Crashing Back at the beach again! This time, my son was letting the waves crash over his head as he gets better at holding his breath. He normally doesn't like to go under water so it was fun watching him do this.
Week 38 - Peaceful Slumber I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching my son sleep. He still needs me to lay with him while he falls asleep and I know it won't last forever so I'll soak it up while I can. It's been almost a year since the last time I took a picture of him sleeping and when I saw him like this after falling asleep while reading a book (because I was taking a shower), it was too perfect to pass up. He's going to be five in just a few months and I swear time seems to go faster and faster the older he gets.
Do you have a favorite? I'd love to know! <3 Kim Owner/Photographer-Artist Kimberly Tank Art & Photography Need updated photos of your kiddo? Want to capture the essence of who they are right now? Contact me today for more information on scheduling a child session! Maternity Session in the Woods | Saint Marys GA Maternity PhotographyI loved everything about this maternity session. Momma is beautiful and was absolutely perfect for my recent maternity gown creation. The purple really popped against the brown and green in the setting. I love when a client trusts me and my vision and lets me have some creative fun. Soon-to-be big brother participated just enough to get some really sweet shots too. Here are some of my favorites!
Thank you for trusting my creativity and doing this maternity session with me! I can't wait to meet baby girl when she arrives! <3 Kim Owner/Photographer-Artist Kimberly Tank Art & Photography Are you expecting and want to capture this special time? Contact me today for more information on scheduling a maternity and/or newborn session! Maternity Photography | Why do maternity photos? | St Marys GA - Fernandina Beach FL
You're excited and maybe a little anxious. You're about to welcome a new life into the world. You are probably also tired, achy, and not feeling so glamorous. You may be planning to capture your newborn baby shortly after birth but haven't thought about capturing the special time before baby arrives. (Or you've thought about it and are not feeling up to being in front of a camera.) But the photographs captured while you're still pregnant are more for your unborn child than they are for you. A gift to the generation you are creating. My son loves to go through the Belly Book I made while I was pregnant and seeing the maternity photos we did that hang on the wall. He talks about how he was growing inside my belly. He can see that love and anticipation for him before he was even born.
It's truly a beautiful and miraculous process of growing another human being inside your belly. And with the right elements, you can feel beautiful too. I recently made several maternity gowns to offer for my clients to use for their session. After finishing each one, I would try it on (and stuff my belly) to make sure my vision for it had panned out. And each time, my son would say, "You look like a princess!" And it hit me, that this is exactly what I want my clients to feel. As we celebrate a new life about to be brought into the world, I want my clients to be able to forget about the extra weight, tiredness, and aches, and really feel beautiful, like a princess, while I capture this special time. Maternity sessions can take place as early as 30 weeks and are best before you are feeling too uncomfortable and swollen.
If you're considering a maternity session, check out my Maternity Guide for more information and contact me to discuss your custom maternity session.
<3 Southeast Georgia Child Photography | First Birthday SessionThis little cutie pie recently turned one. His parents celebrated with a photo session that included all of them in a flower garden and then some of just Mr. J and some peaches to go with the newborn pictures he had with peaches. The best time of day for this little one happens to be at 11 am, which is not typically the best time for outdoor sessions, especially without shade, but we made it work, because that's when Mr. J was going to the the happiest. The flower garden was beautiful and we had so much fun with the crate of peaches! Here are a few favorites.
<3 Kim Owner/Photographer-Artist Kimberly Tank Art & Photography Need updated photos of your kiddo? Want to capture the essence of who they are right now? Contact me today for more information on scheduling a child session! Why Print? | 100 Days of Personal Photographs | Professional Child & Family Photographer
For my second 100 Days of Ten Project, I choose to do something that didn't involve taking pictures every day but that still dealt with photos. Another photographer in our Facebook group had chosen to organize and finish editing old personal files over the last decade or so, for her 100 Days of Ten Project. This inspired me to want to do something with my personal photos as well. While I did have some unedited personal photos that needed to be edited, what I wanted most was to get ALL of my digital images off my computer and into print. So my project became, 100 Days of Personal Photographs.
I am a big believer in printing your images. Enjoying your favorites on your walls and keeping albums on a shelf to look through when you want to take a walk down memory lane or show your children/grandchildren what life was like before they came around. It is an important part of my business and my walls are filled with photographs. I have always printed my favorites for display on the walls but I haven't made the time to create albums of all the snapshots taken over the years that help me remember those moments that were captured. It's so easy to let it slide. We post the pictures we take on social media or maybe even a family share site, and then it's forgotten. How often do you sit down at your computer and peruse all those old photos filling up your hard drive? I know I don't.
When I started this project, I had some albums with 4x6 prints from before I owned a digital camera, and some that weren't complete (like my secondary wedding album). I had done a belly book and baby book for my son but the printer I was using to print the pictures for those had died before I finished them so the baby book still needed a few photos. I started by finishing what I already had, filling my wedding album with the 4x6s we already had printed, and completing the baby book and a birthday book for my son that I hadn't put any photos in yet. Once those were complete, I moved on to filling the empty photo albums I already had with 4x6 prints of the digital photos from the early years of my marriage.
Once the albums for 4x6 prints were full, I started working on designing and ordering albums for the more recent years. I had done a couple for my son's first year but never finished. I tried several consumer labs for this part of the project and I'll be writing a blog post comparing the labs I used. As I write this, I still have two more years to do an annual album for, though I do have a couple albums already for last year from my Project 52 and our summer family session with a fellow NAPCP photographer.
Now that I've told you about my project, here are some reasons why you should print your photos... It has been said multiple times that this generation we're raising is the most photographed generation, but with the fewest photographs. In the digital age, pictures get shared on social media and that's it. If our parents and grandparents hadn't printed photos, what would we have left? Not much. When you want to go back to a memory, or jog your memory of something forgotten, there's nothing better to preserve those memories and take up back to that moment than a photograph.
I can remember as a kid pulling out albums and boxes of old pictures and looking through them. Seeing myself as a baby or asking about the people in the photographs that I didn't know. My grandmother died before I turned two and the few memories I have of her are vague and it's those old photographs that help me remember her. My son loves to pull out albums and look through them, especially the ones of him as a baby and the belly book where he can see the progression of my growing belly as he grew inside of it. There are studies now that show how having family portraits on your walls can boost your child's self-esteem. They see those photographs every day and see their importance in the family unit. Digital is NOT archival. Technology is ever changing (anyone have a floppy disc hanging around?) and you are more likely to experience a hard drive crash (12%) than you are a house fire (<1%).
In 100 days, spending about ten minutes a day, I was able to complete albums from 2004-2013. That's a decade worth of images and memories that are now preserved in print. I'm so glad I did this now before I became any further behind. Once I finish the last two, all I'll need to do is print my favorites as I go (which is what I've always done) and then create and order an annual album in January each year. If money is tight, there are always companies offering coupons and discounts on photo books. I could have it designed and ready to order and just wait for the next sale or coupon. My family's memories are too important to let them die on a hard drive. <3 Kim Owner/Photographer-Artist Kimberly Tank Art & Photography
Maternity Photography | Kingsland - Saint Marys GAThis special family is awaiting the arrival of baby number three! Big sister and soon-to-be big brother are both super excited for a new baby sister. They are going to be such great helpers too. This was mom's first time doing a maternity session and I'm so glad she decided to do one! I love to capture the excitement and anticipation of a new baby's impending arrival. So often mom's are apprehensive about how big and uncomfortable they feel and worry they won't like pictures of themselves. We sometimes forget how amazing our bodies are as we are growing a tiny human and how beautiful others see us. It is my goal to make sure my maternity clients feel beautiful, not only during their session, but when they look at their pictures too. This is such a special and miraculous time to document and be able to look back on. This baby is going to love looking back at these pictures when she's older and seeing how excited everyone was for her to join the family.
<3 Kim Owner/Photographer-Artist Kimberly Tank Art & Photography Are you expecting and want to capture this special time? Contact me today for more information on scheduling a maternity and/or newborn session! |
Kimberly Tank is an award-winning professional photographer in Rockledge, FL, servicing Brevard County on the Space Coast in Central Florida (including Melbourne, Cocoa Beach, Satellite Beach, Merritt Island, Viera and surrounding areas). Using natural light and custom on location sessions, Kimberly Tank specializes in photographing families from babies to seniors and commercial clients, both on land and underwater; providing an exceptional customer experience and helping save you time and preserve this chapter in your life's story. Kimberly Tank is a proud member and ambassador of National Association of Professional Child Photographers. Signup for my monthly newsletter and receive a FREE PDF on taking better photos of your kids! Click HERE Contact Me for more info and/or to book a session
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Kimberly Tank is an award winning professional lifestyle photographer in Rockledge, FL, servicing Brevard County in Central Florida (including Melbourne, Cocoa Beach, Merritt Island, Viera and surrounding areas). Using natural light and custom on location sessions, Kimberly Tank specializes in photographing families from babies to seniors and underwater photography; providing an exceptional customer experience and helping you capture your story and turn your memories into works of art.