ADH Photography by Adrianna Gass

09/01/2026

The Smocks. 🤍

This is why I’ll never ask your kids to spend an hour standing still and smiling at me.

I want them to run.

I want them to climb the rocks, pick up the sticks, blow the bubbles, annoy their brother, grab Dad’s hand, make Mom laugh and forget for a little while that there’s a camera following them.

Because somewhere in the middle of all of that, you happen.

Not the version of your family that knows they’re being photographed.

You.

The way your son reaches for your hand without looking.

The way your husband watches the boys when they don’t know he’s watching.

The look you give each other when one of the kids does something so completely him that no words are necessary.

The brother who gets too close on purpose.

The belly laugh that ruins the “perfect” picture and makes a better one.

That tiny second when everyone forgets about me.

That’s the photograph I’m waiting for.

Because I’m not trying to make your family look like a beautiful family.

You already are one.

I’m trying to catch the things you don’t get to see because you’re busy living inside of them.

And the Smocks gave me so much of that.

The chaos. The tenderness. The hands reaching for each other. The ridiculousness that comes with raising boys. The quiet looks between the loud moments.

Nothing manufactured.

Nothing that belongs to anyone else.

Just them.

And years from now, I don’t want these photographs to only show them what everyone looked like.

I want them to remind them exactly what it felt like to belong to each other. 🤍



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08/31/2026

One day, these girls will know this version of their family mostly through photographs.

They’ll see how tiny they were in their parents’ arms. How their sisterhood started with curious little touches, stolen kisses, and one big sister already making sure the baby knew exactly who she belonged to.

They’ll see the way their dad looked at them. The way their mom could somehow hold a baby, reach for another little hand, and make it all look effortless.

They won’t remember the warm evening light or running through grass nearly as tall as they were. They won’t remember being swung between Mom and Dad or how perfectly they fit against their chests.

But their parents will.

They’ll remember the weight of them.

And someday, when those arms aren’t quite so full anymore, I think these photographs will bring a little bit of that weight back.

The Meissners, while their whole world was still small enough to carry. 🤎

08/30/2026

The Schaffert family. 🤍

There’s a strange kind of ache in loving a family through the years.

You spend so much of life raising them. Driving them places. Feeding them. Waiting up for them. Laughing with them. Worrying about them. Watching them become more and more themselves.

And then one day, you look around and realize the little kids who once needed your hand for everything are standing beside you nearly grown.

You wonder when it happened.

When their little faces changed.
When their hands got bigger.
When their voices changed.
When “someday” quietly became right now.

But maybe that’s why photographs like these matter so much.

Because life doesn’t announce the last time everyone will live under the same roof, or the last ordinary summer before everything looks a little different. It simply keeps moving.

So we stop it for a moment.

We gather everyone close. We laugh. We hold hands. Mom and Dad remember that before all of this, there were just the two of them. And for one evening, everyone is exactly where they belong.

Together.

The Schafferts, in a chapter they’ll someday wish they could step back into for just five more minutes. 🤍

08/28/2026

Some stories I get to photograph for an evening.

And some, I get to watch unfold. 🤎

I’ve been photographing this family since before they were this family… through growing up, falling in love, babies being born, and all the beautifully ordinary seasons that followed.

And maybe that’s why sessions like this feel a little different.

Because I know how quickly one chapter becomes another.

Right now, it’s little hands reaching for Mom. Dad carrying a tired kiddo. Bare feet on rocks. Dogs splashing through the water. Belly laughs, messy hair, and children who still fit perfectly tucked into their parents’ arms.

Nothing monumental.

And somehow, everything is.

One day they’ll look at these photographs and realize these weren’t just the in-between years.

These were the days.

And what a privilege it is to keep them. 🤎

07/31/2026

The storm didn’t ask permission before it arrived.

It painted the sky in shades that made the world feel impossibly small.

But children don’t study the horizon.

They study the people they trust.

So while the clouds gathered, they kept laughing.
They kept climbing.
They kept reaching for the woman who had never let them fall.

That’s the quiet miracle of a mother.

She doesn’t stop every storm.

She simply teaches her children that the wind isn’t the end of the story.

She becomes the place they return to when the world feels too loud.
The steady rhythm after chaos.
The voice that untangles fear.
The hands that convince scraped knees—and broken hearts—that healing is possible.

One day they’ll stand in storms of their own.
There won’t be little hands to hold anymore.
No one will lift them toward the sky.

And without realizing it, they’ll search for something familiar.

They’ll search for the feeling of standing beside the woman who made the whole world feel impossible to lose.

Because home was never the house waiting at the end of the driveway.

Home was the person who taught them that even after the darkest sky…

the earth is still beneath your feet. 🤍



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06/29/2026

No one tells you that raising a baby is an exercise in letting go.

Not all at once.

Just a little, every single day.

One day they’re too big to curl into your neck.

One day they don’t need to be rocked to sleep.

One day you pick them up for the last time… and you don’t even know it’s the last time.

That’s the cruel thing about parenthood.

The lasts never announce themselves.

You don’t know you’re hearing the last newborn sigh.

The last sleepy stretch.

The last tiny yawn against your shoulder.

You don’t know the last time your whole world fits between your two hands.

Until one day, you’re standing in a quiet house, wishing you could go back for just five more minutes.

Five more minutes to breathe them in.

To memorize the weight of them.

To kiss that impossibly soft forehead one more time.

That’s why photographs matter.

Not because they freeze time.

Because one day, when time has done what it always does, they’ll quietly hand it back to you.

Sweet Maverick.

One day these photographs won’t just remind your parents what you looked like.

They’ll remind them what it felt like to hold the smallest version of the boy they never stopped loving. 🤍

06/29/2026

One day, this photograph will be impossible.

His tiny feet won’t fit in the palm of your hand.
He won’t fall asleep wrapped up like this.
He won’t have that brand-new face that somehow changes every single day.

One day he’ll run ahead instead of being carried.
He’ll have opinions, dreams, favorite songs, and a voice that no longer sounds like a newborn sigh.

But for just a little while…

He’s still exactly here.

Small enough to cradle.
Quiet enough to sleep through the world.
New enough that everyone who holds him whispers without even realizing it.

These aren’t just newborn photos.

They’re proof that, for one brief moment in time, Wells was this little.

And that someone loved him enough to make sure he’d never forget it.

Because the first thing every child loses… is the memory of what it felt like to be brand new.

These photographs remember for him. 🤍

06/29/2026

Six months.

Somewhere between the first sleepy cuddle and today, the tiny newborn we carried through these doors quietly disappeared.

No one tells you that it happens while you’re still looking.

One day they’re learning to smile.
Then they’re sitting on their own.
Laughing at peekaboo.
Reaching for your face.
Looking back at you with eyes that somehow already know who you are.

You spend so much of parenthood waiting for the next milestone…

Until one day you realize every milestone means saying goodbye to a version of them you’ll never hold again.

Today, we celebrate six beautiful months of Otto.

Six months of growing.
Six months of changing.
Six months of becoming.

And somehow, even after all this time, he’ll never be this little again.

Happy half birthday, sweet boy. Thank goodness photographs let us keep what time never will. 🤍

06/14/2026