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While the rest of the country grocery shops, bakes, roasts, bastes, and eats too much turkey (OK, OK, we’re going to do that too!), we are gearing up to head to Seattle next week for CreativeLive for: Capture the Journey of Parenthood with Julia Kelleher Family Photography: Capturing Connection CreativeLive: Dec. 4-6, 2015 It’s just […]

Countdown to CreativeLive! Dec. 4-6

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Studio news

As if we all weren’t excited enough about this week’s CreativeLive course “In the Studio with Anne Geddes,” this story has us all completely giddy here in our studio in Bend, Oregon. Julia got to meet Anne Geddes! Yes, really! On Friday, Julia flew to Seattle to take part in an  exclusive, soon-to-be-announced Anne Geddes event. She visited […]

Julia Meets Anne Geddes

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Education, Studio news

You may have seen our Facebook post last week teasing Julia’s return to CreativeLive. Well, photographers, we’re here to tell you that yes! It’s true! (Insert happy dance here!) Since the moment we posted the video (which almost 13,000 of you watched) we’ve been getting amazing amounts of inquiries from photographers all over the world […]

CreativeLive | Sneak Peek!

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Education, Studio news

Mentoring sessions are such a joy! To teach a photography student here in my studio in Bend, Oregon, one-on-one — it’s a precious, thrilling experience to say the very least. I tailor my teaching and customize each session to a student’s strengths and weaknesses, goals and business plan. It’s a lot of work, but so […]

Mentoring Sessions | The Perfect Timing

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Sessions

There’s nothing like a beautiful baby girl. Alivia recently visited us for her newborn photography session and she was such a joy to work with! Her beautiful family came along too–including two gorgeous big sisters who were so excited to welcome new baby sister home. We’re in love with how these feminine, sweet and innocent […]

Alivia | Newborn Session

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Sessions

Casey, Casey, we love you so! This newborn session was so fun for us. Fresh off of a great beach vacation on the Oregon coast, Julia was happy, happy to meet this cute little guy, his big brother and adoring, beautiful parents. Really, have you ever seen a more excited and stunning little family? We […]

Casey | 5 days old

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Studio news

We have two lovely new ladies (well, kind of new, read on to learn more)  joining us here at the photography studio and we couldn’t be more excited. We’re working on some new special projects that we can’t wait to tell you more about and these two wonderful women will be helping in all facets […]

Welcome (and Welcome Back) to the Studio!

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Education, Sessions

Dawn Martin of Apple Blossom Photography in Beaverton, Oregon recently visited the studio for a mentoring session with Julia. We welcomed her with a set of beautiful babies, siblings and parents for this two-day private workshop and we’re so happy with the results! Thanks to Dawn for being such a great student and also to […]

Mentoring Session with Babies

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Sessions

Oli Theodore. Have you ever heard a sweeter name? No? Neither have we. And let us tell you, Oli is just as sweet and cute as his name. His parents came to us looking for newborn images that matched their modern rustic home. It was also important to them that we capture just how tiny […]

Oli | Newborn Session

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Sessions

Baby Bentli came into this world with heaps and heaps of beautiful love. We wanted to capture the joy and happiness of her gorgeous family in this session–mom, dad and both grandmothers. It was a lovely experience working with this family! And Bentli, in her soft, gentle shades and fabrics is the picture of this […]

Bentli | Newborn Session

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Sessions

Esme. We love this name. So feminine and gentle and kind. Esme the baby lives up to her name and we fell in love with her (and her beautiful parents) the moment she came into the studio. We wanted to give her a feminine, strikingly simple and flowing newborn photography session, and we’re in love […]

Esme | 7 Days Old

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Education, Studio news

More than 30,000 people from all over the world tuned in LIVE to “The Creative Newborn Photography Studio” with Julia Kelleher (you can purchase the course here). From Seattle to Bend to Israel, New Zealand, India, Paris and Australia, photographers devoted three days to watch and learn Julia’s award-winning photography style with babies and families. […]

CreativeLive | What We Learned

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