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Welcome to Senior Week where I share all my best tips and tricks to ROCK your senior session! Today is Style Tuesday! If you’re like me…I need a few tips on being stylish. I wish I could say that I was born to see style and what goes together with what. Nope. This definitely doesn’t […]

Senior Week: Style Tuesday

April 9, 2024

Educational

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There’s something about being engaged in the fall. The beautiful colors, the cooler weather, and the chance to snuggle with someone. Not to mention it’s one of the most gorgeous times to shoot engagements! Breanna and Hunter met me at a meadow bursting with fall colors for their engagement shoot. I was anxious to catch […]

Helena Fall Engagement Session

October 6, 2023

Engagement

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Have you ever wanted to turn your passion into a business? Are you wondering where to start? Well this post is for you! It’s going to be focused on how to start a photography business, but you can really follow these same steps to start any new business you want to! This is your year! […]

How To Start a Photography Business

January 6, 2023

Educational

Kelly Van Dyke Photography, Ravenwood Wedding Venue

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Mikayla and Kyle met at Carroll College years ago, and when I heard their campus proposal story, I knew part of their engagement shoot had to happen there too! These two are without a doubt destined to be together. And just from hanging out with them on their shoot, I could feel the excitement and […]

Carroll College Engagement Shoot

July 24, 2022

Engagements

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There is something about shooting expecting mamas, especially the ones who are pregnant with their first child. The excitement of what’s to come is tangible and exhilarating! I remember being pregnant with my first. Everything was so fun to look forward to. The new baby furniture, all the new baby gear you were positive you […]

Helena Summer Maternity Session

July 11, 2021

Maternity

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In I have always recognized how lucky I am to be a part of a couple’s wedding day. What an honor it is, especially in this day in age where group sizes are limited to gathering sizes by state mandates. Brice and Madisen’s wedding was no exception. In fact, just being around these two can […]

Montana Sunset Wedding

August 10, 2020

Wedding

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It all started with a spring snowstorm while hiking Mount Helena. What was supposed to be just an average hike for these two athletes, soon turned into a surprise proposal by non- other than, Hobbes, their black lab mix. Tyler anxiously waited to get to the top so that he could encourage Brittany to check […]

Helena Montana Sunset Engagement

July 24, 2020

Engagement

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This poor mama. She had envisioned a snowy lake maternity session. Yeah, that didn’t happen. Her February day hit 60 degrees in Montana!! We were both shocked, but we couldn’t complain! I loved her reading her questionnaire that I sent before the shoot. She shared that they don’t know the gender of the baby, and […]

Montana Winter Maternity Shoot

February 5, 2020

Maternity

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That top picture is one of my allllll time favorites I’ve ever taken…and you betcha it was on film! All of the sunset photos in her white dress were shot on film. And when I say film, I mean like medium format (645mm) old-school-ten-pound-film camera kind of film. I am in LOVE with my new […]

Montana Maternity Sunset Session

August 29, 2019

Maternity

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Lifestyle family sessions are not your typical family session. They are a much more laid back, go-with-the-flow type of shoot. I LOVE these because the amount of pressure exponentially decreases for both mom and dad–and if I’m being honest–with me too! And the photos reflect that relaxed vibe. This mama and daddy knew that they […]

Why Choose to Do Lifestyle Family Session?

August 12, 2019

Educational

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