Welcome to my photography blog where I share clients sessions and my life experiences on my little corner of the web.
Thank you for visiting my blog. Here you'll find my most recent client sessions as well as stories about my life and my family. Here is some information about me!
My name: Laura Kay Wootan
Age: 35 (although I am going to stop counting after this year)
Birthday: August 5th, 1973
My Family: I have a wonderful husband named Bryan and a six-year-old son that I love very much. My son only makes funny faces at my camera. He might just be slightly over photographed.
Education: Bachelors of Fine Art in Photography from The University of Texas Arlington. I graduated in 1997.
My style: I’m a journalist at heart. My portraits are story telling mixed in with classic portraiture. I strive to create timeless portraits. I believe that portraits are an investment in your family history. I believe children should see what their great grandparents looked like. I believe that every family should have a yearly family portrait. I believe a portrait really can say 1000 words.
The technical aspects of photography are every bit as important to me as the emotions and relationships I capture. You'll never find me shooting on anything but "full manual." I make all the decisions when I'm photographing. I don't photograph on automatic and hope the camera will do a good job.
I pose people. Photographers who claim not to pose because it looks "fake" just don't know how to pose their clients. Not posing people can make a beautiful Mom look ten or twenty pounds heavier than she really is!! I’m so not kidding. Posing people is an art. You can absolutely pose people and still have them look natural and animated. I pose my subjects because I want you and your family to look the best they can. If posing was a bad thing Tyra Banks on Next Top Model wouldn’t spend so much time talking about “the pose!!” Posing… it’s not just for supermodels! Posing is the difference between “snapshot” photography and real portraiture. I believe if you’re hiring a custom photographer they should be providing you a top-notch beautiful product that isn’t something you could do yourself.
I love beautiful light. I am comfortable shooting on location, in the studio and with natural light. I’m always prepared for whatever lighting situation I will encounter. I am obsessed with finding beautiful light and if it’s not there I can create it.
I believe without a doubt Mothers are the ultimate family historians. Mom’s that love photography are my favorite people. I fall in love with every baby and child I photograph. I love nothing more than to see how much they change over the years. I consider it an honor to be your family photographer.
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Wow! For the last few years I’ve taken portraits of this sweet family. This year they’ve all grown up!! There were no tears! All smiles and overall just a really wonderful session! Simon and Lilly are cute as pie but what can I say about big sister Malena wow… she has really grown up too!...
And baby makes three! Meet the Cornwell’s! Yet again another beautiful belly! It’s just not fair! It’s funny…the week from our session vs. the week from when they came back to view their portraits Darlene’s belly totally popped! I love that! It won’t be long now!! They’re such a sweet couple and are going to...
Here are some portraits that the amazing Jay Young took of our girl posse!! He was so kind as to spend the evening with us chick photographers at “Texas School.” (Which is a week long conference at College Station that I attended this year with some of my very best friends and fellow photographers…) I...
Meet the beautiful Naomi! It was her birthday last week! She called and wanted to do a session to celebrate her birthday which I think is an awesome idea! She has some of the most beautiful long hair too! I think it’s really a wonderful gift to have your portrait taken. Not just for your...
I love it when that magical moment happens and the moon and the stars align and BAM you get a great picture of a brother and sister together!! Meet Payten and Sean. You may recongnize Payten she’s in my online gallery a few times! The first time we tried to shoot Payten and Sean together...
Meet the beautiful Luna Family! We photographed a family portrait as well as some baby portraits of their little man! I loved the color of clothing they wore. It looks so good with our green background. We had a hard time choosing black and white or color! Mom initally said she had black and white...
Okay so baby fever is in FULL force! LOL Meet the handsome little Aidan. He’s one of our new babies and so cute. He was just three weeks old when we did this session. He makes the BEST expressions with his little eyebrows! I love that second shot where he’s looking at me like, “Umm,...
Meet the handsome Artie! Artie was lots of fun and very sweet! He did all the crazy things I ask my seniors to do and didn’t once ask me why! LOL Artie is one of my last senior of the season! It’s been a weird year. I think graduation really did sneak up this year...
Meet the beautiful Amanda! She is San Marcos High School’s Valedictorian! So many congratulations to her! Smart and beautiful!! We also had planned an outdoor session and got rained out too… That’s the problem with Texas in Spring. It’s been a very wet year!! Which makes me so sad because I love to shoot outdoors....
Meet the beautiful Alyssa. She’s a San Marcos Senior too! We had planned on doing an outdoor session as well but the weather was not on our side! Which is too bad because I know we would have had a great time and made some beautiful images. Alyssa photographs beautifully! Since we got rained out...
Here is handsome Sean! He’s another San Marcos Senior! He’s also a Mariachi. He played for me during our session and he’s very good! He also made fun of me because I’ve been trying to learn Guitar for a few years now and I can’t get past a B minor! LOL He said he’s got...
I’m late on blogging! I’m sorry Guys I know you’re waiting!! I promise to get some new images up soon! This next week will be a little rough and I will do my best to get phone calls returned! The reason?? We don’t have child care the rest of the month. Why?? We’ll it’s a...
I’m proud to introduce my new assistant Kristi. She’s a student at Texas State and awesome! You’ll love her! Today she found out that when you work for me we take photos at random!! LOL So you never know when you’ll be the subject of a lighting test or just a “muse” for the afternoon!...
Another maternity! It must be something in the water! LOL It’s totally not good for my own personal baby fever!! Meet the beautiful Butcher family. I sure I hope I spelled their last name right! I apologize in advance if I got it wrong! This sweet couple is from Austin and they brought the same...
Meet the Robertson Family! It’s so cool to get to do a maternity session and then a newborn session! This is the handsom Reid. He is such a pretty baby. He was such a cool laid back baby too! We had an awesome session! This first baby in the blasket image is a classic I...
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