Melissa Hauer Photography

07/21/2025

Six years difference and two additions later. I had the pleasure of taking these kiddos (and their family's) pictures again. We took some generational photos with Great Grandpa!

07/21/2025

07/25/2024

Senior session this past Saturday. I can't get over these! The black and white photos especially.

If you are interested in booking a session, please feel free to contact me!

11/12/2023

Beautiful evening tonight for a family session on St. Mary's campus with the sunlight and the leaves. I captured the Brown family in 2020, so for them to ask me for pictures in 2023 it was an honor! So much fun tonight!

07/28/2022

Happy Birthday to this beautiful soul! I was so excited when she messaged me with this idea! * Cheers to 60 * A few of my favorites from our session.

Here is to normalizing cake smash sessions, no matter your age!!!

11/08/2021

I've been taking this handsome boys pictures since he was one (he turned 10 this past Monday!!!), but I've been his Mama's best friend for double that : )

10/29/2021

I know I've been a little MIA on my page, but in 2020 I took some time off from photography.

I've dusted off my camera and am ready to jump back behind it!

I took my not-so-little six year old daughter out for a little photoshoot the other day. When she was a baby all I ever heard was "Don't blink. Time will fly by so fast!". I always giggled and thought "yeah right". Well, here we are almost seven years later and WHERE HAS TIME GONE?!?!

2020 was the year for this girl. While the world stood still for a bit, she took off like a rocket! I don't share much personal business on this page, but I love to advocate and educate others on behalf of our sweet Lena. See Lena has Autism Spectrum Disorder. She was diagnosed one month shy of her third birthday. Since age three she has been through developmental preschool, speech therapies, occupational therapy, and even to a behavioral psychologist. But the cherry on top of this all was ABA therapy. I know - some will be like "ABA therapy, that's bad!" But things have drastically changed over the years and as studies have developed around Autism, so has the therapies to help those individuals. ABA was such an amazing experience for Lena for thirteen months. It helped prepare her precious mind for kindergarten.

If we want to dive deeper, I guess you would call Lena "high functioning", even though now the appropriate term is "on the spectrum". Autism Spectrum Disorder is such a broad topic and all with ASD have been clumped together. She has a speech delay, and add in her scripting, she always has the most interesting conversations! 90% of the time she has a video/movie/conversation replaying in her head. She takes the bits and pieces of conversations she learned from those videos/conversations and tries to apply it to express herself. One self-stimulatory behavior she has is dancing. Dancing calms her down, resets her brain, and gets all her silly's out.

Our free spirited, independent, companionate little dancer.

11/22/2020

My favorite project now: framing the photo just right of the bride/groom so to display their first dance song.

I'm in love! ❤️

10/15/2020

A few more of my favorites.

10/06/2020

10/04/2020

I am so honored that my cousin Kimberly asked me to photograph her wedding! These are just straight from the camera, but I couldn't wait to post a few peeks! I'll be sharpening these babies up so they can be beautiful wall portraits!