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Smash Cake Session  |  Baby Colin

Smash Cake Session | Baby Colin

What all is included in smash cake sessions? I’m so glad you asked! Sessions happen in my photography studio in Canton, GA. I provide all props. We do pre-smash pictures, smash pictures, and fruit bath with bubbles pictures. This is just a sample of the normal flow, though. For instance…

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Milestone Session  |  Baby Jaxon's

Milestone Session | Baby Jaxon's

I know I have said it before, but I absolutely love following along with a family as they expand and grow. It doesn’t just stop after maternity or newborn photographs. It continues to milestone sessions, smash cake sessions and beyond to graduation, engagement and more. And while milestone sessions are not as popular per se as newborn and smash cake, they are popular and an excellent way to show how much your baby has grown, the milestones they have reached, and just the overall adorableness of your baby!

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Newborn Session  |  Baby Elijah

Newborn Session | Baby Elijah

If you know me at all, you know just how much I love what I do. From maternity to newborn to baby to 1st birthdays and beyond, following alongside each family as they expand and grow is just a tremendous blessing. I always think of these sessions as celebrations I get to be a part of. I mean, how cool that I get to help celebrate the arrival of Baby Elijah by providing pictures that his family and friends can treasure through the ages?!? Helping to document this family’s expansion from 2 people to 3…Elijah’s smile, little fingers, eye lashes, and more filled my heart to overflowing.

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Smash Cake Session  |  Cason turns 1!

Smash Cake Session | Cason turns 1!

Capturing details is something I love to do for families, maternity, newborn and babies alike. I love little toes and noses and fingers and lips and more! So in a smash cake session, I will try to capture those cake smothered fingers, cheeks, lips, cake in hair, cake on booty, cake between the toes and more. We love the big picture but those detail shots really just bring it home for me.

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Newborn Session  |  Baby Mateo

Newborn Session | Baby Mateo

One of the beautiful things about being a newborn, baby and family photographer is being able to walk alongside the family as they expand and group. To watch as mom to be becomes mom of three. To be present…to be INVITED to be a part of their celebration of wonder, new life, milestones met, first birthdays, and many other special events that happen throughout a person’s lifetime. What an honor and blessing!

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Senior Session  |  Emily made it!

Senior Session | Emily made it!

I think one of the things I love about senior sessions is hearing about their plans. You know, up until high school, parents typically speak for their children in many ways. Once they become seniors, though, they have had a huge part in post-high school planning. I love hearing college plans, if any (because let’s face it, college is absolutely not for everyone), why they chose that college, why they chose that particular academic track, and more. I want all the deets! Hearing young adults speak about their future and their dreams is truly inspiring!

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Newborn Session  |  Baby Everleigh

Newborn Session | Baby Everleigh

Why do I love working with newborns? They are each so different but so similar. I love celebrating the growth of a family with the parents. I love delighting in the details of the newest member of their family. I love oohing and aahing over the sounds they make…the grunts, cries, coos. I love laughing along with the parents at the vast number of facial expressions babies make during our session together…smiles, grumpy, hungry, tired, eye rolling and more! And with each baby being different but the same, all of these normal things are like experiencing them for the first time for me. Each and every time!

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Newborn Session  |  Baby Lilliana

Newborn Session | Baby Lilliana

What can I say about newborns? Well…I can say a lot, actually! I love how they are each different. Their details make up the unique individual that they are and I am here for all of it! The smiles. The lashes (or no lashes). The grumpy face. The furrowed brow. The hairline. The hair (or lack of hair). The lips. The toes. The fingers. I can go on and on, so I will spare you. Just know each detail is so important and I strive to capture them all!

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Maternity Session  |  Fabiola is Having a Baby!
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Maternity Session | Fabiola is Having a Baby!

One of the amazing things about being a photographer is making connections with people that I would not have likely met otherwise. This is just one of the many aspects of my j-o-b that I love. Originally from Costa Rica, this sweet mom-to-be was super laid back, feeling great, and was just overall a kind person.

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Maternity Session  |  Sydney's Having a Baby!

Maternity Session | Sydney's Having a Baby!

I absolutely love following along with a family as they prepare for the arrival of a baby, and then as they celebrate their child as they grow. I love all of my clients, but the clients who allow me to walk along with them through this thing called life really have my heart.

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Surprise Proposal Session  |  Brandon + Courtney

Surprise Proposal Session | Brandon + Courtney

While I mostly focus on maternity, newborn, and baby photography, I love when I get the request for help capturing a surprise proposal! So, when Brandon contacted me about capturing his proposal to Courtney, I just had to say yes. I had the perfect spot and couldn’t wait to see everything go down!

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Baby's First Year  |  Remi's First Year

Baby's First Year | Remi's First Year

Over the last couple of years, I have watched this family go from trying to conceive, heartache, pregnancy, birth, newborn session, milk bath session, nursing session, Christmas session, and then baby’s first birthday smash cake session…plus parties, getaways, and more. This family definitely has a piece of my heart.

Here’s the amazing thing. This family is not the only one! I love each of my families that walks through my photography studio’s door. I love connecting with them and walking through this thing called life together. Captured Moments by Cindy is more than a business in Canton, GA.

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Baby's First Year  |  Smash Cake Session

Baby's First Year | Smash Cake Session

If you have been to a baby’s first birthday party, you may have witnessed the baby squishing and smashing a small baby-sized cake while a group of their loved ones are standing around, watching the destruction of that beautiful, tiny cake, cheering on the massacre, and just enjoying the overall show of cake droppings, icing smears, cake tossing, etc. It’s quite the spectacle. If you have not witnessed this, you are missing out! Find someone with an infant and get yourself invited to that baby’s first birthday party, STAT!

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Favorite Vendor Highlight  |  Charcuterie Boards
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Favorite Vendor Highlight | Charcuterie Boards

Have you ever tried putting together a charcuterie board? I have. I am a creative. I love creating. I love taking pieces of puzzles and throwing them together, sometimes in unexpected ways, and marveling in the art that was created. Charcuterie boards are no different. Take a little bit of this, a little bit of that, a whole lotta this, none of that…putting all the things together into one beautiful assembly and calling it gorgeous. Yep…I’m on board (pun intended!)

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Studio Headshot Session  |  Headache or Worth It?
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Studio Headshot Session | Headache or Worth It?

If you are in the corporate world, have a job, or you are an entrepreneur, you need a headshot that is updated at least once a year. Wait, did you just say once a year? Yes. Yes, I did. Think back over the last year. How much has changed? How have you changed? More grey hair? More wrinkles? Different style? What about different life experiences? These all add up to a slightly different you.

Have you ever checked a website for a company, looked at the staff pics, and felt like you have a connection with that company? It’s not just the words on the screen, it’s the visual images of the PEOPLE behind the company that really helps nurture that connection you feel.

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Family Outdoors Session | The Preston Family
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Family Outdoors Session | The Preston Family

Being a family photographer means being available during those special holidays to capture the moments that are precious to our clients, even during those holidays that are typically busy already (Christmas…I’m talking about Christmas LOL!). While I can bring families into my studio in Canton, GA, my favorite thing to do is take them walking through a field with lots of interesting details or through a downtown area like Downtown Woodstock…and that’s exactly what happened with the Preston family!

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