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Today marks my baby’s Last Day of Kindergarten! Claire completed kindergarten in a completely virtual setting for the 2020-2021 school year. While it wasn’t ideal and not at all what we had expected prior to the pandemic, she did well and made the best of it. She did have to switch teachers once, which was […]

Today I thought I’d get personal and share 10 things you probably didn’t know about me! 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Melissa Dayton, Ohio Photographer   1 | I have a bachelor’s degree in English Writing. I actually started out thinking I wanted to pursue nursing, but turns out I can barely pass a […]

Today marks my anniversary of 5 years in business! And it’s my birthday too! 🎂 You can read my whole journey about creating my photography business here. But the long and short of it is… one day, we were driving back home to Texas from a trip to my in-laws. I saw a field of […]

Happy first day of spring! I’m excited to talk about what to wear for spring family pictures today. What to wear for family pictures is my most asked client concern, right behind “we’re terrible in front of the camera! Can you help us?” to which the answer is: absolutely. But that’s a topic for another […]

I’m really excited to share my first two rolls of 35mm film with you today! I was born in 1989 which makes me almost 32. Most my early childhood was still documented on film that my dad got developed at Price Club. I fondly remember disposable cameras. But my own first experience capturing images has […]

There’s nothing like the first snowfall of the year, right? Our first snow falls in both 2020 and 2021 were both in January. I grew up in Colorado and always loved playing in the snow as a kid. My kids had yet to experience much snow yet as we came from Hawaii before we moved […]

Hey friends! Happy Friday! I’m starting a new blogging series called Five on Friday. Every other Friday, I’ll share five of something. It might be five things I’m loving lately, five recent photo sessions, five of my favorite Amazon finds – who knows! They may be photography related or they may not. I thought it […]

2020 was a rough year for many of us, but it was still a great year of family photography in for my business. Being a Family Photographer is a really meaningful job for me. So many of my clients still came out despite what was going on in the world in 2020. I know as […]

2020. What a year. While most of us are looking back in it in disdain and hoping we soon forget everything that dumpster fire of a year held for us, there are many moments I hope to not soon forget. Lots of photographers struggle with taking personal photos of their family. In 2020, I finally […]