Lifestyle photography

It isn’t easy being a tween right now. Adolescent development AND a pandemic! Not only are they going through changes in themselves that are difficult to process, they are living in a time filled with uncertainty and change. These challenges are very real. Angela Bilen and Jen Dera are the owners of Capture A Moment Photography in New Baltimore. As the mothers of tweens/teens and with their main clientele being senior grads and families with children, they’ve witnessed firsthand what yo ......

Mallory and Piper came in for Easter photos. Mom was hoping for a classic and spring type of setting and chose the set display with Apple, our bunny. Piper is 4 years old and Mallory is 5 months. They are new clients to Capture A Moment and we are thrilled to have them join our family. Mallory is the happiest of babies according to Mom. Piper was so easygoing, sweet and helpful at the photoshoot. They each wore blue which are colors that worked well f ......

We met Sarah at an Easter session and she lit up the studio! Sarah is a really social child who loooooves to make people smile. We laughed the entire time! Sarah turned on the charm and she really enjoyed sitting with Apple, our Easter Bunny. Sarah toddled across the studio in the cutest Easter shoes with bunny ears & a rabbit tail on them. Hillary and Carl are Sarah's parents and they explained that her Grandma purchased the outfit. Using something special lik ......

How do you photograph a surprise marriage proposal on a New Baltimore pier with nowhere to hide?? Kirby and his fiancee, Leah, were going to be in town to visit family. Kirby and Leah live in Arizona and Kirby had thoughts of popping the question to Leah while in Michigan. Being around family to celebrate this occasion was an opportunity that Kirby couldn't pass up. He enlisted his Mom to help hatch the plan. Although the idea was to propose on the shores of down ......

Up next on the blog are these three fun loving, crazy kiddos! Mom wanted to revisit a watermelon themed shoot that we had done together a few years prior, and include her youngest this time arond, (affectionately given his own hashtag, #toocuteluke). ;-) Photographing 3 kiddos at one time can be challenging and arguably stressful for mom, but we all worked together and had a great time. After what seemed like a million rain related reschedules, the weather finall ......

One of the many blessings we are given in this job is the ability to photograph families as they grow up. While we were not their original photographers, we had a chance to make this mom’s dream come true of having another family photo taken, about 10 years after the last one.I have had the privilege of knowing this family since about the time the last photo was taken as our boys have grown up together. I gotta say, you have got to love a mom that survives in a house full of boys a ......