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Fall Family Mini Sessions | Wildberry Farm+Market

This year I have 4 dates available for family mini sessions. These are quick sessions that result in at least 10 images that will be perfect holiday cards. There are no props involved – just classic family portraits with the incredible backdrop that is Wildberry Farm!

October 11 – October 25 – November 1 – December 5

$250

Choice of 3 full-resolution digital images with print release

Booking is quick and easy – just click the link below to view all the available times, choose yours, sign the studio policies and you’re set.  I’ll send an invoice over in just a bit. 

Book Here

15 minute sessions will result in about 10 images (but often many more) in an online proofing gallery. The session cost is $250 including the session and your choice of 3 digital images. Extra digital images, prints and products may be purchased in the gallery but no additional purchase is required. 

The whole family, including leashed pets, are welcome!

Images in this blog were photographed in 15 minutes at Wildberry Farm.

Book Here

Feel free to e-mail Jill with any questions.

PS Your mini session includes your choice of 3 digital images.  When you receive your gallery of images, there is no obligation to make any additional purchase.  Should you wish to purchase additional digital images or prints, you can choose from popular sizes directly in the gallery (see prices below) or e-mail me for a free consultation to purchase framed wall art or canvas.  If you’d like to purchase the entire gallery of images (no matter how many there are!) simply choose “All Photos in Gallery” on a single images and check out – the images will be ready to download immediately. *Prices subject to change without notice.

yoga instructor brand photos in maryland

We drove to this session in a deluge. There was rain and thunder but the radar looked like it might clear up so we risked it – and look at the skies we were rewarded with! The skies are 100% real in these images! Darlene is a yoga instructor and we spent some time on the water with her family capturing some brand images and headshots for her new website. I love how her daughters jumped into the action to show off their yoga skills!

Check out one of the brightest rainbows I’ve ever seen! You can see a faint rainbow in almost all of the images and then the skies turned bright orange and pink just before the sunset.

memory boxes for bereaved families 2020

In support of the Perinatal Loss Unit at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Heartlove Photography will be creating and donating memory boxes again this year. Due to COVID-19, this will be a virtual event to raise the funds for the boxes.

JHH cares for almost 100 families each year suffering from stillbirth or early infant loss and provides each family with a box to hold small keepsakes from their hospital stay, including the infant’s foot prints, hat, hair clippings or other support items. They rely on fundraising to purchase the boxes – since 2016 Heartlove Photography has held community events to decorate boxes and provided them to the hospital at no cost.

When I planned the first event, I just wanted to relieve the nurses of the extra task of fundraising to purchase boxes for their bereaved families. What I found was events like this give space for people to talk about their babies who never left the hospital, to say their names and tell their stories. It gives strangers the opportunity to pour love into a room that they have never been in. It raises awareness for stillbirth and infant loss. We can’t heal the broken hearts of bereaved parents – but we can send love and intention to making the time they spent with their baby, no matter how short, a beautiful memory.
Starting last year, we added other support items to each box – such as individual handprint kits, glass bottles for locks of hair, lace handkerchiefs and other items that could comfort parents or wrap a baby.

As a virtual fundraising event, we invite you to give in honor of parents who have suffered early infant loss, stillbirth and miscarriage as well as the babies gone too soon. Please add a note to your donation if you’d like their names included in a public acknowledgement. In addition, if you’d like to include an affirmation, prayer or words of encouragement, we’ll add those messages as well.

Donations can be made (via PayPal) at www.heartlovephotography.com/memorybox until August 28, 2020

black and white image of stack of boxes with hand reaching for one

Stories with Santa 2020 | Photos with Santa Maryland

2020 looks a lot different for so many reasons but we are going to keep the Santa tradition going!

In November 2020, Chesapeake Santa and Heartlove Photography will team up again for outdoor, social-distanced photos in Pasadena, MD with an antique sleigh.


This year, Stories with Santa will take place outdoors in Pasadena with Santa on an antique one-horse-open-sleigh.  We’re only accepting 2 sessions per hour so each family can come and go without overlap.  Santa will not touch or hold any children but he’ll read stories like always and interact in his usual jolly-old-style. 


As in years past, each appointment will last 15 minutes. The sessions will be $350 including your choice of 3 digital images.  Additional digital images are $49 each or $499 for the entire gallery. A $100 retainer is due to hold your appointment and the balance is due by the date of your session.


Because these will take place outdoors, I’ve planned for inclement weather.  That means when you book your appointment, you already know exactly when you’ll be rescheduled.  The 2nd date is only available for weather-related rescheduling.  If it rains and we have to reschedule, you’ll keep the same appointment time on the new date.  Please reserve both dates at the time of booking – alternative dates will not be available.


Rescheduling for illness: In the event that you or your child has a known exposure to illness or is having any symptoms including but not limited to fever, sore throat, cough, vomiting or diarrhea, you must reschedule.  You will be offered a session with the sleigh but without Santa.  The session must take place before 12/31/2020.  Additional information about rescheduling is in the policies (you’ll view and sign them when you choose your appointment time.) Pease carefully read all of the information.


The one and only, Chesapeake Santa, will visit on these dates:
Nov 7 9am-5pm  (Rain Date: Nov 22)
Nov 8 9am-12pm (Rain Date: Nov 28)
Nov 14 2pm-5pm (Rain Date: Nov 21)

BOOKING LINK AVAILABLE ON 10/1/2020


You can start preparing by planning your wardrobe – I have suggestions pinned here:

https://pin.it/JSI2vEZ

When you’re considering what to wear, plan for flat shoes (the ground is soft and heels will dig in) and weather appropriate layers. Kids who are too hot or too cold are rarely in a picture-ready mood. The early November average temperature is between 37-57º.

After choosing your time, enter your information and sign the policies then you’ll get an e-mail confirmation automatically and I’ll send over an invoice very soon.
The list of repeat clients grows each year, please reserve your appointment now.  This event opens up to the public on October 1, 2020 and will sell out.  In 2019, we had 60 sessions and this year we have less than 30. 


Despite the challenges that this year has brought,  I still feel so honored to get to capture some of the magic of your babies’ childhood.  Thank you for keeping this tradition alive and sharing your special holiday memories with me every year ❤️ 

Pumpkin Mini Sessions

October 4
$200

Pumpkin sessions at the truck are perfect for kids, families and pets! This image from last year shows the truck but this year we’re planning for even more pumpkins and gourds with greens and greys.

Booking is quick and easy – just click the link below to view all the available times, choose yours, sign the studio policies and you’re set.  I’ll send an invoice over in just a bit 🙂

Book Now

15 minute sessions will result in about 10 images (but often many more) in an online proofing gallery. The session cost is $200 including the session and your choice of 3 digital images. Extra digital images, prints and products may be purchased in the gallery but no additional purchase is required.

Feel free to e-mail Jill with any questions.

Thank you for supporting my small business <3 

My best,
Jill

Your mini session includes your choice of 3 digital images.  When you receive your gallery of images, there is no obligation to make any additional purchase.  Should you wish to purchase additional digital images or prints, you can choose from popular sizes directly in the gallery (see prices below) or e-mail me for a free consultation to purchase framed wall art or canvas.  If you’d like to purchase the entire gallery of images (no matter how many there are!) simply choose “All Photos in Gallery” on a single images and check out – the images will be ready to download immediately. *Prices subject to change without notice.