My Journal

SEATTLE’S FAMILY AND NEWBORN PHOTOGRAPHER FOR KIDS AND THE GROWN-UPS WHO LOVE THEM.

Reach Out When You're Ready

Lots of endings lately. Little endings like saying goodbye when he walks into school in the morning, or one last kiss right before bed. Big endings like the last day of 6th grade or throwing the graduation cap. Or when it gets really heavy and goodb

When I photograph families I always think about my own and the deepest version of love I keep relearning. It helps me tune in to what another parent may be thinking, certainly these sweet parents are so in love with their family (including the furba

The Cooperative Preschool System that is the foundation of many of my most treasured friendships, parenting tools, and what led me to being a photographer (thank you @elenasblair_photography who I met at coop) is facing massive funding shortages due

Stay gentle, keep the eyes of a child
Don’t harden your heart or your hands
Know to find joy in the darkness is wise
Although they will think you don’t understand

Don’t let the world make you callous
Be ready to laugh
No one’

To celebrate 42 laps around the sun I did exactly what I wanted…went to the woods with my baby and my tripod. I feel so wildly blessed.

It’s reason #12 of 📷 20 Reasons Why I Love the Studio! 📷: the kids are trapped! I’m all about kids being kids. I love working with kids and sorry, totally prefer them to adults. They’re free and silly and so authentically thems

Anela photographs newborns, kids, and their families in the Seattle area on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish people.

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