The Latest

Miley ~Senior Portrait Session

October 4, 2024 0 Photography, Uncategorized

I almost wanted to title this session “110 Reasons to Book as Session at Golden Hour” You can NOT get colors like these at any other time of the day. This was the first session of the year that really felt like fall! Everything was so golden and it was a perfect cool night! Miley came out to our farm…literally one of my favorite spot to photograph (have you noticed?). I was googly eyed over these and have been dying to finish editing so I could post them! I dream of these kinds of colors ! ✨✨✨ ALSO my seniors this year have been KILLING it!

Here’s to an insanely busy fall full of more beautiful session like this one… Cheers 🥂🥂

Thanks for taggin’ along,

~Emilia Joy

Ellie Kate

September 27, 2024 0 Photography, Uncategorized

I have dreamed of doing a session like this ever since I bought this vintage row boat back in January. When I suggested the idea to my sweet friend Ellie Kate she was so ready for it! I spent the afternoon roaming our fields on the farm for flowers and picked buckets and buckets full. I was a little nervous about how it was going to turn out but once I saw the boat filled with flowers I knew it was going to be great!

It was the perfect summer evening and God even sent us a beautiful sunset and literally made all my dreams come true for how I envisioned this session! I mean how can it get better than this, friends, wildflowers, a summer sunset and magical golden light!

As always, thanks for taggin’ along!

~Emilia Joy

Hannah ~ Senior Portrait Session

August 5, 2024 0 Photography

My seniors this year have been making my job so easy. Every time I photograph a senior I’m amazed by how much easier it is than a family session 😂. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good family session but they can be exhausting. There’s something super chill and fun about spending an hour photographing and getting to know one person.

You literally can not beat the sunset glow on our farm I mean look at those greens and golds. Every time I finish editing a summer gallery I remember why I love the summer so much. The greens, the flowers, the blue skys, the golden sunsets…Kentucky summers are the best! Here’s to soaking up the last few sunsets of the summer, it is flying by!

Thanks for tagging along!

~Emilia Joy

Mama + Me~ Lifestyle Session

June 6, 2024 0 Photography, Uncategorized

A few weeks ago I got to do a really fun Mama + Me session.  We photographers call these lifestyle sessions. For those of you who don’t know what this means, a lifestyle session is a laid back photography experience, where I come in and take photos of you and your family doing a fun activity. There’s a lot less posing and a lot less “look here and smile”. I focus more on capturing genuine emotions and interactions that happen naturally. None of that making goofy noises from behind my camera because for the most part I want your family to be totally absorbed in the moment. 

If you have really little kids choosing a lifestyle session over a typical session is a great option. Choosing an activity that you love to do as a family is such a fun way to make a memory and to keep your littles happy. Not only will your kids “tolerate” this, it’s actually something that your kids will get really excited about! This option helps to keep the kids entertained, focused, smiling, happy and it provides a great way for me to capture the genuine interactions of your family. 

When it comes to doing a lifestyle session there’s so many options of fun things to do! Have a campfire and smores together, get giant ice cream cones  and eat them together, have a water balloon fight, eat watermelon, bake cookies together, or explore a park. There are really endless options and what makes it so special is that YOU choose what would be fun for your family! 

If your family is not a “smile at the camera and give each other big hugs”  kinda family, or if your kids are just too stir crazy for a typical photo session I really recommend talking to me about a lifestyle session. It’s a perfect way to capture YOUR family personality on camera and to have photos to hang on the wall forever! 

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Jenna + Rex ~ Kuttawa, Kentucky

May 28, 2024 0 Photography, Uncategorized

At the beginning of this year I bought a vintage boat. Let’s just say I was SUPER excited about it! I’ve dreamed for years of having a cool boat to use for a couples photo session and now I finally had it, but then it was winter and cold and all the trees were dead 😂 (not ideal for a beautiful boat session) I pulled the boat out once in the winter and my nieces and sister almost got blown away in the wind, oops. So I waited and waited for spring and I finally got to do a few session with some sweet kids but I was still waiting for the perfect couple.

Two weeks ago I found the perfect couple and I finally got to do this dreamy session! Looking through the gallery for me feels magical and dreamy like a scene in a movie. Needless to say, I can’t wait to pull the boat out again for a session. Kuttawa Ky, was the perfect little lakeside town to do this dreamy session in, I can’t wait to go back!

As always, thanks for tagging along!

~Emilia Joy

Hadlee ~ Senior Portrait Session

January 2, 2024 0 Photography

Hadlee sent me her Pintrest inspo board and I knew our farm would be a perfect fit for what she was looking for! Hadlee and I had met a few times before but we had such a fun time during her hour long session. She said after our session, “it was exactly what I wanted it to be!” And that’s always my favorite thing to hear!

Thanks for tagging along!

~Emilia Joy

Harmony~ Senior Session

September 12, 2023 0 Photography, Uncategorized

I’ve known Harmony for as long as she’s been alive! Our families have been friends…well forever practically. For a long time she was my friends younger sister but now she’s graduated and it blows my mind. How is life going by so fast!

Harmony texted me asking about doing her senior session at sunrise, and I was all for it! She’s only the second person to brave a sunrise shoot with me, and it was so worth it! There’s something so chill and peaceful about early mornings, fog and sunrises.

I’ve had such a blast with my senior girls this past year and I’m super excited for all the 2024 seniors coming my way!

As always, thanks for tagging along!

~Emilia Joy

Ellie, Laken and Pistol

August 12, 2023 0 Photography

Our pear trees were in full bloom and our back field was still golden from the winter. Laken texted me and asked if she could bring her horse for some photos with her daughter before the blooms fell off the trees and I am SO glad she did. The beautiful bloom and the jet black horse were perfection.

I love how we went from a princess session or a cowgirl session with just an outfit change. Ellie loves horses just like her momma and it was impressive how well she controlled that giant horse.

All in all in was a perfect evening. The best kind of spring weather, the best kind of blooms, the best kind of glow and the best models.

Thanks for tagging along!

~Emilia Joy

Johanna~ Senior Session

August 12, 2023 0 Photography

Johanna and I had a super fun time taking her senior photos. She has contacted me asking if I could incorporate her horse into the session with her, so we met out on her friends beautiful farm. The spring glow and the golden tassel on the oak trees made this into pure magic. 😍

Thanks for tagging along!

~Emilia Joy

Anna~ Senior Session

July 19, 2023 0 Photography

It’s been a minute since I’ve posted on here…as is typical with me I’ve been having technical difficulties… I know it’s shocking 😂

This senior session was so fun! Anna came out to my farm and we explored the fields and ponds. I thought we much get rained on but it ended up being a perfect spring day! It feel like we have the best of all worlds on our property, fields, ponds, woods, flowers. Anna said that it was her dream place to live, so she was perfectly at home and you could tell.

As always, thanks for tagging along!

~Emilia Joy