Baby's First Year Package

Winter is my time for dreaming, planning, and preparing! Over the past several weeks, I've been hard at work implementing the suggestions I've received from all of you who have so kindly filled out surveys. The responses have been extremely helpful.

Some of your top requests for services you would like me to add were:

Physical and digital gift cards, which I now offer on my website at www.denicehazlett.com;

A members-only subscription service for established clients, which I have been hard at work at and am almost finished developing;

A first-year package for new babies, which is the main topic of this post.

Denice HazlettJanuary 30, 2023Comment

Getting Comfy with Lifestyle Sessions

I didn’t know it, but I did my very first lifestyle photo session 26 years ago when I first started taking pictures for other people. I was attending home births with a midwife at the time, and one of the very first births I went to was at the home of an earthy young couple with three young boys living in an old house in the city. I didn’t really have the skills, knowledge, or equipment necessary to do birth photography, but I didn’t know that, and the couple had requested that I bring my camera along. So I did.

Photo Session Tips, EssayDenice HazlettDecember 15, 2022Sprouted Acorn LLCfamily photos, Family, Parents, Daughters, Lifestyle, Children, Newborn, PhotographyComment

Great Tips for Including Your Pup in Your Next Photo Session!

Incorporating your pet into your family photos is a great way to capture your furry friend's personality, and it can make for some truly memorable shots. Here are a few great tips on how to make your photo shoot with Fido a success

Photo Session TipsDenice HazlettDecember 12, 2022dogs, pets, Portraits, blog pots, blog post, family photos, kidsComment

For the Love of Portraits

There’s just something about documenting the still image of a person. When I traveled to Nicaragua with my friend Andy as a documentary photographer for his medical and dental humanitarian outreach, I really found myself falling for portraiture. The beautiful and rugged and worn and stoic and smiling faces of the Nicaraguan people were stunning subjects for my new 50mm Canon lens. In one particular image, the face of a woman named Ursula, blinded as a result of parasitic infection, had such an impact on me that it’s still one of my favorite images to this day. I returned from that trip and asked every person I could convince to let me take their portrait. It was a fun and fascinating project I plan to repeat in short order.

PortraitsDenice HazlettDecember 11, 2022Gorge Metropark, Akron, Ohio, Senior Session, PortraitsComment

The Image of a Photographer

One of the things that has always intimidated me about having a photography business has been the pressure to look good. Yeah, sure, taking good pictures is important. That’s a given. But there’s this unspoken expectation in my mind that, as a photographer, I should have a perfect, instagram-worthy home, a gorgeous studio with shelves and shelves of curated and meticulously organized props, and a clean, bright workspace to edit. And above all that, I should be perfect, too.

EssayDenice HazlettNovember 30, 2022Comment

Finding My Way as a Photographer

I was looking through my Facebook memories yesterday and a photo popped up that kind of took me aback. Someone had asked me to take their portrait, and while I didn't feel qualified, they insisted, and so I said I'd do my best. So I strung up a very wrinkled white sheet, pulled out some construction work lights, and used whatever little very basic, consumer-level camera I had at the time to take what I knew were quite mediocre photos.

EssayDenice HazlettJanuary 8, 2018Portraits, Learning, Education, StyleComment

Behind the Lens

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