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OUR FAVORITE PLACES
The coffee shop that knows your order, your favorite bar, your favorite bookstore, the neighborhood park, grandma's house, or anywhere you naturally return to again and again.
A story built around the quiet rhythms, familiar places, and ordinary moments that quietly become thA story built around the places that have quietly become part of your story.
Begin Your StoryBuild Your Story
Some places become part of the family.
Our Favorite Places is built around the places your family naturally returns to—the ones woven into your traditions, relationships, and everyday life.
Maybe it is Saturday morning at the donut shop, the bookstore where everyone wanders in a different direction, the park you visit every week, or a place that has held your family’s story for generations.
The place matters because of what happens there.
Choose the pieces that feel most like you. We’ll use them as the beginning of a story built around the places your family loves most and the ordinary moments that keep bringing you back.
Chapter One
What kind of place are we returning to?
Start with the kind of place that already belongs to your family’s life. Your choice will shape the ideas that appear in the next chapter.
Choose one.
Chapter Two
What will we do while we’re there?
Choose the traditions, rituals, and ordinary moments that make this place feel connected to your family.
Choose up to three.
Chapter Three
Choose the color story.
The place will already bring its own colors. This simply helps us build clothing and little details that feel connected without matching everything.
Choose one.
Chapter Four
What might everyone wear?
Choose a direction that feels natural for the place while still allowing everyone to move, eat, browse, play, and settle into the experience.
Choose one direction.
Chapter Five
What belongs to this place?
Choose the objects, orders, traditions, and familiar details that help explain why your family keeps returning.
Choose as many as you love.
Chapter Six
What kind of atmosphere draws you in?
The time of day, weather, crowd, and light can change the way a familiar place feels. Choose the conditions you would be happy to embrace.
Choose as many as you would genuinely embrace.
Chapter Seven
Add the finishing touches.
These optional choices help shape how your completed story looks, moves, and lives beyond the session.
Choose as many as you love.
Your Story So Far
A place made meaningful by returning.
These choices are not a contract or a shot list. They are the beginning of our conversation and a way for me to understand why this place belongs to your family.
Questions
A few things you might be wondering.
Every family—and every story—is different. Here are a few of the questions I hear most often before a Little Wonders session.
What if my child won't cooperate?
Honestly, that's exactly who these sessions were designed for.
I don't expect children to smile on command or sit perfectly still. We'll give them something to discover, build, chase, collect, imagine, or explore instead. Those real moments almost always become the photographs families treasure most.
Do we have to bring all of the props?
Not at all.
The Build Your Story guide is inspiration, not a shopping list. We'll decide together what makes sense for your story, and many sessions need nothing more than the landscape and your family.
What if I can't decide between ideas?
You don't have to.
The builder simply helps us discover what you're naturally drawn to. We'll refine everything together after you inquire, and sometimes the best stories become a combination of several ideas.
Can Little Wonders work for maternity or couples?
Absolutely.
While Little Wonders was inspired by childhood, the same playful, nostalgic feeling can beautifully shape maternity, couples, or even anniversary sessions. Think picnics, kites, balloons, wildflowers, and slow evenings together.
What if the weather changes?
Sometimes the weather becomes part of the story.
We can adjust locations, embrace cloudy skies, splash through puddles, or simply reschedule if conditions become unsafe. Some of my favorite photographs happened because we stopped trying to fight the forecast.
What happens after I click "Tell Me About Your Story"?
Once you inquire, I'll read through everything you've built and get to know the story you're imagining.
We'll refine your ideas together, talk through locations if you're still deciding, make wardrobe suggestions if you'd like them, and shape the session around your family—not around a checklist.
The builder isn't a contract or a shot list. It's simply the beginning of our conversation.