Press play and feel it again.
Cinematic video and real moments — captured and back in your hands within 48 hours.
Everything — your reels, photos, and full raw footage — delivered within 48 hours.
Not a gallery you scroll through once.
You want to actually experience your most meaningful moments — not watch them pass through a phone screen. You want to look back and feel exactly what you felt that day.
Not posed. Not stiff. Not something that looks beautiful but feels like nothing. Something you press play on for years.
These moments are happening right now.
Time is moving faster than you can hold onto it. And that terrifies you — because you know it.
What is missing
Either these moments are not being captured at all — or you are walking away with stiff posed photos that look beautiful but feel like nothing.
What you feel
The squishy toes, the way your partner looked right after the baby arrived, a toddler kissing a pregnant belly — those moments are happening right now, and you are terrified of forgetting how it actually felt.
The smallest moments are the ones you will want to relive forever. They deserve more than a still image. They deserve to feel real every single time you come back to them.
I know exactly how fast it goes.
I am a mom of three girls, including twins. I have the hospital memories I wish I had captured differently — the moments I was healing through instead of holding onto.
The sibling meeting. The way my husband looked at me. Those seconds do not come back. I do not take that lightly when I walk into a session with your family.
I am not here to direct you into something that looks good for a camera. I am here to catch what actually happens — because that is the version you will come back to forever.
This is not a photo session. It is a content experience.
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The moments nobody else thinks to catch
The squishy toes. The belly kiss from a toddler. The look between two parents in a Fresh 48 room before the world finds out. These are not accidents. They are the result of a storyteller who knows exactly what to look for.
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Video and b-roll, not just photos
Every session is planned to capture the moving, breathing, feeling version of your story. You walk away with cinematic reels and raw footage you will come back to for years — not a gallery you scroll through once.
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Built for real families
A former teacher who knows how to connect with children means no forced poses and no stiff smiles. Sessions are easy, natural, and exactly what families say they wished they had done sooner.
Watched. Rewatched. Cried over.
Seriously, that was the best gift — moments that cannot be captured by pictures alone. You have no idea how much I appreciate the memories. I have watched it several times and just cry harder each time.
Amanda Schulze · Family Session
I keep rewatching the video over and over. Great job on it and thanks for all of your help and coordination.
Tim Heatley · Gender Reveal
So many people have said they cried watching the video. Thank you again.
Erika Heatley · Gender Reveal
Thank you for doing all the editing and videos so quickly. I love how these moments were captured.
Erika Heatley · Maternity
Working with Karlie was such a wonderful experience. She was incredibly patient, kind, and so great with our kids. She made everyone feel comfortable and at ease — and let my 4 year old explore, bringing him back in with a little bribery. We are so grateful for these memories.
Melissa · Family Session
Simple packages. No surprises.
Every session — Fresh 48, maternity, or family lifestyle — follows the same straightforward tiers. You choose how much you want. The rest is taken care of.
Fresh 48
Maternity
Family Lifestyle
Everything — your reels, photos, and full raw footage — delivered within 48 hours.
Tier One
One Reel
$397
- 1 edited cinematic reel up to 2.5 min
- 5 lightly edited photos
- Unlimited raw footage folder—every clip from your session
- Delivered within 48 hours
Most Chosen
Two Reels
$597
- 2 edited cinematic reels up to 2.5 min each
- 10 lightly edited photos
- Unlimited raw footage folder—every clip from your session
- Delivered within 48 hours
Tier Three
Three Reels
$797
- 3 edited cinematic reels up to 2.5 min each
- 15 lightly edited photos
- Unlimited raw footage folder—every clip from your session
- Delivered within 48 hours
Every package includes your full raw footage folder — not just the edited highlights. Every unedited clip from your session, yours to keep. Because some moments deserve to be saved exactly as they were.
Add-on
Extra edited reel — any session, any tier
+$175
Bundle
Maternity + Fresh 48 — Book both sessions together
$100 off
Travel: Sessions within 30 minutes are included. A flat $50 travel fees applies to locations beyond 30 minutes. Serving Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin
Two versions of ten years from now.
Without This
The moments pass and there is nothing to go back to. Or worse — there is a gallery of posed images that look fine but feel like nothing. The squishy newborn toes are gone. The way your oldest met their sibling is a blur. The exhausted, completely-in-love look between you and your partner in that hospital room existed for about four hours and nobody caught it. You cannot go back.
With this
You are sitting on the couch ten years from now and you press play. And it feels exactly like it did that day. The sounds, the movement, the real unscripted version of your family in that moment. Your kids watch themselves as babies and feel something. You feel something. That is not a gallery you scroll through once. That is something you keep forever.
Recent unscripted moments.
A handful of frames from Fresh 48, maternity, and family sessions.
The first 48 hours only happen once.
No poses. No direction. Just your family, exactly as you are — captured and back in your hands before the week is out.
Lightly edited photos = exposure, color, and crop corrected. All reels are cinematic, music-set edits up to 2.5 minutes. Raw footage delivered as original files via your private online gallery. All sessions follow the same tier structure. Travel beyond 30 minutes is a flat $50 fee. Serving Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin.