Can we just start this off with saying how thankful we are?! Once again we find ourselves being blown away by the incredible response we have received to these Fall Short Stories. We are SO grateful for y’all and all the ways you support us. Year after year, you keep us very busy and very thankful! You’re just the best and we feel so overwhelmed with gratitude that THIS is our job. So, thank you!Now, back to the fall minis! This was Ashley’s first fall mini shoot day of the year, and she had a blast! Ashley always gets so excited for these shoots because it’s like when you go to your church’s Homecoming Sunday (hello, all my southerners! You will understand this. haha!) and everyone has returned home with their families.

Eeee! We’re so excited to start sharing these 2021 Fall Short Stories with y’all! We’ve had the best time with y’all shooting these. It’s so fun to catch up with your families every year and document how much they’ve changed. First up, we have our first fall mini shoot day in Raleigh with Becca from the end of October. Although most of the leaves hadn't quite turned fall colors yet, we had a gorgeous but chilly morning for photos! All of these families had little ones, who rocked their assignment with smiles!We were lucky that there was one pile of leaves next to a building and a parking lot that had some great color! Through some creative cropping/angles from Becca, we managed to make it look so good. These were some of Becca’s favorite moments from each shoot, and the kiddos loved being able to play in the fall leaves!

Last year, when we did our pandemic pre-sale special for the 2020 Fall Short Stories, we discovered we had a good amount of interest in a Durham mini shoot afternoon. It was really cool to add a new location like that after all those years of holding fall mini shoots in Raleigh. Ashley had both new and returning clients for this shoot day in Durham. It was so fun to have a different set up for this afternoon of minis that we decided to have another fall mini shoot day in Durham for this year's Fall Short Stories!