A fine art photographer specializing in young families and intimate gatherings

Cozy Home Session on Film

I adore this family and this cozy in home session is one of my favorite sessions to date! They recently moved to their forever home which is completely stunning and cozy all at the same time. The weather was lousy, but the results were dreaming! It is no secret I love the sun, but these dreary day sessions have kinda stolen my heart.

I hope you guys enjoy and it brings you some warmth on these chilly days. Thanks so much for following along and supporting our little dream over here at KNP. Now here is the wonderful Fagala family in their cozy in home session.

Film Scanned and Developed by The Find Lab

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5 BIG Reasons to have a SMALL wedding

5 Big Reasons to have a Small Wedding

This has been a crazy year and we have seen a new (amazing) shift in typical weddings and want to share with you 5 Big reasons to have a small wedding (covid or not). I REALLY hope this trend continues as the small intimate weddings have been the most amazing weddings I have ever shot in the last 10 years! Small does NOT mean it is lacking anything, I would like to argue that you in fact get MORE!

You are not surrounded by strangers on your big day! NOT that you are with a large guest list, but I have seen so many times couples walk around for hours meeting and greeting at the reception and before they know it, it is time to exit and they did not get to enjoy the reception.
There is less pressure. I don’t know why this is but all these wonderful small intimate weddings the couples have been SO relaxed, SO calm and SO very happy. Once again, I am not saying you can’t be all those things with a large guest list. I am saying that EVERY single small wedding I have been a part of the couples are on a whole new level of calm. It is so refreshing to see them enjoy their big day in such a way.
You can get married ANYWHERE! Yep, you want to get married in your backyard or a restaurant or your patio, your grandmother’s lake house. Your list of possible venues expands greatly when your guest list is small. It also adds to the personal aspect that comes with small weddings. These venues I have been shooting with these small weddings REALLY mean something to these couples. I LOVE that!
BUDGET! You can really have a GRAND wedding on a much smaller budget with a smaller guest list. We are talking a FRACTION of what it could end up costing you. We still think you should invest in making your Dream wedding happen but you can do so within a much smaller budget when you opt for a small, intimate wedding celebration.
You are able to focus more on each other rather than the wedding. Which I will say is the BEST reason of all.

We hope as you are planning your BIG day that you think about going SMALL, as there are so many wonderful benefits to doing so. Overall we just want each couple to have the BEST time on their wedding day and if that means a big wedding, amazing! If that means a small backyard poolside wedding, amazing as well! Now I hope you take a minute to enjoy this poolside patio wedding and reception.

Vendors:

Venue – Greystone Stables
Planning, Decor and Florals – BettsMade
Photography+Film – Katie Norrid Photography
Film Lab – The Find Lab
Hair – Katharine Chafin
Makeup – Lynsey Donahoe
Stationary – Ellywise Studio
Cake – Rachel Dressman
Catering – Pink Flamingo
Rentals – WhiteDoor Events

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30A Beach Sessions on Film

Back in October I went to my favorite place on earth and had the opportunity to shoot 10 families on the beach, two of which were my sister’s and with beautiful film no less. The reason I am blogging these is because 1. they are truly beautiful and 2. I would do anything to be back at those beaches RIGHT NOW!

I also have a side note: SHOP SMALL people! Our small businesses are being crushed by directives from the county AGAIN! These are my friends, peers, family. SHOP SMALL! SHOP SMALL! SHOP SMALL! Go to LOCAL restaurants and get curbside or a gift card! Do NOT freeze your gym memberships, they won’t survive this. KNP has been so loved through all these changes and we ask that you continue to do that! We are having a HUGE Black Friday Sale at the KNP shop coming up this FRIDAY! Click HERE to visit the shop and support small businesses! Now email your mayors and governor and all the people!

Here are some Great small businesses you should check out!

BettsMade for florals, balloon decor, holiday decor
Beautiful Soul Boutique
Smallcakes for all the tasty treats
Pavo Salon
Along Came a Cub
Lucky13 Letters

Now onto the pretty pictures!

Martin Crew

McCutchen Crew

Film Scanned and Developed by The Find Lab

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Our Beach Babes

WARNING…. LONG POST!

I am so very proud to be a mom, especially to these three wonderful beach babes. These sunrise beach photos are something I have done since MD was 15 months old. I look forward to them each year and this year is by far my most favorite of ALLLLLLLL time! These were shot with my Canon but edited with The KNP Kodak for Lightroom Desktop! We converted it for Lightroom Mobile and you can purchase KNP Kodak HERE and use it on all your photos as well!

I had 10 sessions at the beach this trip and as always, the sunrise sessions are my favorite and will ONLY be offering sunrise beach for the future! I will be there in December and taking 1-2 more sessions. If you are interested let us know!

I ask myself all the time… why would someone want photos of their kids sitting down + force smiling at the camera? This is real life… this is what people should have hanging on their walls. #rantover

Day at Rosemary

We love spending time in the beach town where Kyle and I got engaged and married each time we visit! The kids loved the market and getting yummy popsicles.

Finishing our treats on the steps of our Wedding House!

The Lawn where we celebrated our engagement!

Thanks to a passerby that snapped this photo and thanks to KNP KODAK

Beach Days

We had the BEST time! The weather was perfect, the water was crystal clear, the company was by far the best part of all! I also shoot Kodak Portra when I shoot film for my personal photos and use a desktop preset created to mimic Portra for my digital photos and we JUST RELEASED the KNP Kodak for purchase in the KNP shop!

Nash likes to wake up early and enjoy sunrise with momma! This boy has stolen all our hearts!

Even though our car did break down in the middle of the night in small town Alabama and we did not get a rental til almost a day later… It was still the best family trip ever. I actually cried when I was loading the car back up. It was truly magic, and I can’t wait for the day that we have a place down there to call our own for our beach babes and future beach babes!

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Safari Birthday Party for our Wild Child

Merritt fell in love with a cheetah swimsuit earlier this summer and that started plans for her 4th Birthday Party (Safari Party)! She has had a giant water slide party for her last 3 birthdays and she spends 99.9% of the time going up and down and up and down. This year they dropped off the slide early and she was on it for 5 hours straight… she did stop for a cookie break and to blow out the candles on her cake.

We love this child so much… she is quirky, fun and our little spit fire. This birthday was so great, laid back and just what our birthday girl ordered!

https://vimeo.com/463679213

Thank you to As You Film for putting this great film together!