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Black and White Portrait of three year old baby girl with blond curls in organic cotton dress

Ten Years… This sweet baby girl’s mama and I have known each other for nearly ten years… I took her Engagement Photos.  We took this baby girl’s First Birthday Cake Smash photos in my backyard here in Charlotte.  They took time away from their Thanksgiving holiday with family to drive two hours to come visit […]

And our sweet baby girl turns three

Charlotte Family Photographer

RENEE STENGEL Photography | Charlotte Portrait and Underwater Photographer | Underwater Family and Underwater Baby in Pink

Mom reached out to me to say that her baby girl was about to turn one and her big boy about to turn four ~ and she wanted to celebrate with an Underwater Mommy and Me session! How fun is that?!? We are big on experiences over stuff for birthdays in our house, so I […]

Celebrating Baby Girl’s First Time Underwater

Little Ones

RENEE STENGEL Photography | Charlotte Portrait and Underwater Photographer | Six Month Baby Milestone in Pink with Yellow Lantana

My Happy Giggly Baby Hadley! Oh this sweet baby niece of mine…. I feel so incredibly blessed that I was able to travel to California just as she turned six months old and capture her six month milestone photos!!  She is seriously the happiest little baby I have ever been around.  And I have Jacob […]

Happy Giggly Baby Girl

Charlotte Family Photographer

Fresh 48 Baby Girl Swaddled

I have to admit. I left this session floating on a cloud. Posed Studio Newborn sessions are amazing, and continue to thrill me after all these years each and every time I have the privilege of holding and photographing a clients sweet precious baby. But to meet this little one in those first hours of […]

Those first snuggles…

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