Amanda Ellen Studios

05/30/2026

Happy wedding day to these two wild love birds!!! LETS GET YOU MARRIED!!!! 🤍👏🏼

05/18/2026

I spent most of my life thinking I had to become who the world expected me to be.

When I was little, I wanted to be a vet. I loved animals with my whole heart and dreamed of taking care of them forever. I never really considered myself a “people person.” I’ve always been social, but animals were where my heart felt safest.

As I got older, I started believing that money was the answer to life. That success meant choosing the practical path. So I got a degree in finance to become a financial advisor. I was good at it. Good with numbers. Good at following the plan. But deep down, I was never passionate about it. I thought it was just what you had to do to make it in life.

Then I had my oldest daughter, and everything changed.

She made me slow down. She made me notice the little moments. The tiny in-between pieces of life that suddenly felt like everything. I bought my first camera just to take photos of her so I could freeze those moments forever. Then friends started asking me to photograph their children too.

And somewhere along the way, I realized my creativity was finally shining.

At first, I thought photography was just a fun little hobby. Something impossible to make a real career out of. Because growing up, I never believed creativity could actually take you anywhere in this world.

But the older I got, the more I realized life is not about becoming who everyone else thinks you should be. It’s about following your own dreams, your own passions, your own desires. That’s when you truly shine.

Money will come and go. But happiness, purpose, and the people you make feel something… that’s what matters most.

It took me years to understand it, but these last few years are the first time I’ve truly felt happy being exactly who I am.

“I want to make people feel okay.” 🤍

05/06/2026

There are sessions that are beautiful… and then there are sessions that stop you in your tracks.

This one did more than that.

The light was pouring through the windows soft and steady, finding mama exactly as she was… holding her baby, grounding them, being everything all at once. I remember thinking, this is it… this is motherhood.

No posing. No direction. Just a mama and her baby, existing in a moment that felt almost too sacred to interrupt.

And it hit me so deeply… mothers don’t just carry their babies… they carry everything.

The long nights. The invisible weight. The constant giving.  Still… somehow… they shine.

They are the steady place.
The safe arms.
The calm in the chaos.
The light their babies will always look for.

Watching her I felt that truth all over again. Us mothers are the rock of the family, even on the days we feel anything but strong. Maybe that’s the most beautiful part… the strength that exists quietly, without needing to be seen or praised.

This session gave me goosebumps. It made me cry. Because this wasn’t something I created… it was something I got to witness.

A mother, simply being the light. 🤍

04/17/2026

tiny hands, big love — watching him learn to be your brother 🤍

04/14/2026

This is what a “mom-run business” really looks like…

answering a venue call mid car-load, mid chaos, mid child making a break for it… and still somehow sounding calm and collected on the other end… maybe a little out of breath 😅

Because when I say I’m committed to my clients… I mean it 😂

03/28/2026