My Favorite Session Locations - Las Vegas Newborn and Family Photographer

Las Vegas Nevada Family Photographer. I’ve been in Las Vegas for exactly TWO years now! Therefore, I’m officially an expert in the BEST locations for your family session. I hope you sense a lot of sarcasm there. Scouting locations is a major part of being a photographer. There are places that I want to try but haven’t, and probably so many places I’ve never heard of, stumbled upon, or considered going to. However, I have done my fair share of scouting so far, these are simply my favs!

My first favorite place will always be your home. Please, please, please don’t be scared to do an in-home session. The focus is on your family, not your interior design skills. These images are for you and your kiddos to look back on. Decades from now, you’ll more than likely not be in the same home or even same city. However, you’ll look at the images and remember all the memories that a home can have. It really is sentimental. Personally, I haven’t had an in-home session, but I so wish I could go back in time and get one done at our home in Texas. It’s where we brought our babies home, where they crawled on the floors, where we held the most amazing impromptu parties with our neighbors, and so many other memories.

Let’s venture outside.

Symphony Park is in Downtown LV. I LOVE this place! So colorful, green grass (like real grass, not turf), room to run. It just really embodies my style. So perfect for a kiddo milestone or family sessions.

I absolutely love going to the Dry Lake Bed. This was new for me recently to try out. The place is so big and open, I was kind of intimidated by the whole location. Woah, was I missing out! It is the perfect backdrop for family sessions. The dry lake bed is basically a blank canvas. If you like to dress in bright colors and fun prints, this is the place to get your session done! And what can I say about the lighting? In a span of 20 minutes, you’ll get bright sun, golden hour (like golden 10 minutes) and then cool hues of sun behind the mountains. Just gorgeous!! If you hire me and want to go outside, let’s go here!

Downtown Las Vegas is such a fun spot, but I must admit I have only done senior sessions there. The sidewalks are colorful, new murals are always popping up, funky alley ways, and then I’ll make you go to the top of a parking garage for a few more pics. Trust me, parking garage pics are fun!

I started venturing to Mt. Charleston this fall for family sessions, and I fell in love. When the Aspen trees turn golden, it is a completely different world up there. October is definitely the month to book your session there. There were colorful flowers, pops of pink and purple, yellow flowering bushes everywhere, green and golden leaves, it was literally magical! That’s where I WAS going to have my own family’s pictures taken, until Little League changed our plans, I’m not over it. 😤

Of course, there are so many other places that are beautiful in and around Las Vegas, but when clients choose one of these, I do a happy dance. Want to have a session at one of these amazing locations and make me happy dance? Let’s chat!

Milestone Sessions…I Love These and You Should Too.

I love to photograph ALL the newborns and kiddos, but if I had to pick a favorite session, I think they may be milestone session. First, let's define milestone sessions...traditionally, they are when babies can sit (6 months-isH), when they can crawl (9 months-ish), first birthday, and every birthday after! (Because why not?)

As mamas, we know that our littles are constantly changing, and we are there to document it all with cell phone in hand! But let's be honest, cell phone images just don't always cut it. That is why I totally recommend milestone sessions for mamas with babies and toddlers. As a mom of three and a photographer, I just love these sessions! So I present to you, 'Five Reasons Milestone Sessions are my Favorite!'

Milestone sessions are short and sweet. Like 20-30 minutes short. Just enough time to capture the cuteness before little one is over me and my camera, and my singing.

Milestone sessions are FUN!! Like I said before, I will sing all the Encanto songs, dance, imitate Donald Duck, and do whatever else to make your little one laugh and smile. Is your kiddo more on the quiet side? No problem. I will let them warm up to me and the camera. Each child is different and some love all the attention, and others shy away from it. As a former Kinder teacher, I am pretty good at tailoring the environment to suite your individual child.

Also, these sessions are soooo simple! You don't have to coordinate a family in outfits (which is WORK!) It is simply about your little one. A sweet outfit or two, beautiful light, and those sweet smiles and quirks- that's all we need! My goal is to document who your little person is at this moment. If your babe needs to have Mickey by their side the whole time like Irene in these images, then great! My daughter insisted on having Moana while she was a flower girl in the wedding portraits, and I loved it! (the bride did too, I think?) But it tells a story and it is real.

Milestone session are affordable! With session times being shorter, and it centering around your sweet little boy or girl, there is just not a ton of work with these sessions. Therefore there is not a lot of investment required. Simple as that.

There you have it, why I just love milestone photography sessions. Whether you contact me to document your child's baby and toddler years, or another Las Vegas family photographer, these will be some of the sweetest portraits to look back on for years to come!

Do you know someone who has a little one that you think would love to have a photography session like this? Then copy the link below and pass it on! ☺️