Bree Linne Photography

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03/08/2023

Dance instructors, choir directors, co-op moms, middle school teachers, swim coaches, grandmas…💞

Not sure what my kids would do without all the amazing women leading them. I am so thankful.

02/13/2023

Some creative shop talk for you this morning—I meant for this to be brief but it’s me, after all… 🫠

Like many, I seem to constantly reassess my business at the beginning of the year (and every year), and I find myself wanting to focus more and more on what I really love doing. And that is creating beautiful portraits. “Lifestyle” photography is a broad brush of a term, but it’s the genre I thought ten years ago I would focus on forever. The candid moments, the documenting of real life. And while two of my favorite sessions center on this theme (Birth + First 48), my creative desires for my milestone/children/family sessions are evolving.

As I acknowledge this shift in my thinking, I want to acknowledge (because sometimes this is an unpopular opinion)—it is ok to simply want “formal” family photos. And I say this only because if this is you, I get it. It’s me too. When we do our own family photos, my biggest desire is for simplicity. I want nice, clean, well-lit shots of us together, maybe in a location that is meaningful to us. I’m an introvert in many ways, and I don’t want to be asked to do forced prompts to create a manufactured moment. Please know, I have many photographer friends who are incredibly skilled at capturing the candid, and who take the most ✨beautiful✨photos of the in-between moments, and this is a needed and beloved genre of our field. But it’s not always me. Sometimes, yes—I will absolutely snap those moments if they happen naturally. But I can feel my creative desires shifting back to—interestingly enough, what I focused on for my BFA—portraiture.

These past few months have been spent investing quite a bit of time and resources into re-learning and re-building my knowledge of lighting, and posing, and while I’m still offering all my normal sessions for the time being, I’m excited to try some old/new things with you. As always, I appreciate you sticking with me 💕💕

01/27/2023

Just sharing a photo of this ✨always✨ perfectly-styled family to let you know that the very brief spring newsletter just went out. It has the spring special included (if you are expecting a 👶🏼 in the next couple months, this is for you) as well as a small number of studio mini dates…and…💙🌻💙 (first person to figure out this last lame attempt at emoji-ing gets a latte on me…)

01/26/2023

Twins + 1 💕💙💕

01/25/2023

The one-handed dad hold….this takes me back to when my daughter was a baby and would only nap in my husband’s left arm. My shoulders and back would be sore from holding her all day/every day (no regrets!) and he would come home from work and hold her in one arm—while doing chores--like she was a tiny weightless football ❣️

01/24/2023

Yes or yes—getting your babies out of their crib in the morning is one of the sweetest times of the day. 💯 💯💯

01/23/2023

The natural curiosity that comes with the arrival of a new baby sibling ✅….definitely one of my favorite things to capture.

01/21/2023

We are taking this little guy’s one-year photos next month, and I just stumbled across his newborn session as I continue to go through 2022 files. So…here’s a baby yawn and a moment of calm for your morning 🤍

01/20/2023

So I lied, I’m going back further than this past Fall. As I was archiving old galleries I came across these from one of my favorite families and was struck by the common theme in so many of the images—how this youngest baby looks up to all the other big boys in his family. It’s too much 🥰🥹

01/06/2023

Hello and Happy New Year! As I usually do, I will be spending January sharing some of my favorite images from the fall… starting with this sweet family who was my last First 48 of the year. I know that you know how much I love these, but I am ✨also ✨sharing this one today because First 48’s are one of the sessions that are a part of my winter specials (offered through March of this year). More info will be in my newsletter, but if you do not receive that please message me and I can send you info that way. I hope you all are having a peaceful and lovely start to your 2023 ❤️