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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Field of Dreams from Laura Wootan on Vimeo. I’m so proud to announce my spring promotion! One day while out we walking on the ranch my son was complaining he was tired and he wished there was a bed in the field. I thought that’s a BRILLIANT idea!! That’s how the concept “Field of Dreams”...
Another peek! Sweet baby Angelina is now nine months! I really don’t know how it is that time moves so fast!! She makes the cutest faces!! More to come!
Newborns Newborns! We’ve had a lot of newborns lately! My baby fever is in overdrive!! Just wanted to share two quick peeks! The Dettmer Twins and Sweet Baby Chloe! More to come!
I’ve been out of town and I just got back today so I’m catching up on phone calls and emails but I just had to stop and share this one! Rachel is so stunning! More of this beauty to come!
Meet handsome Kyle. He’s a senior in Kyle. One of the things important to Kyle was to be photographed riding his bike. I love shooting sports and action so I was STOKED about this session! It was so much fun to photograph! I love to photograph people in their element and I could tell he...
Meet beautiful Lauren. I had a great time creating her Portraits. She’s a senior in New Braunfels. We did a studio session as well as an on location session. Lauren added our hair and makeup option for her studio session which was perfect! Her hair looked awesome! Especially the up do! Her prom dress was...
I call her Popcorn. Why? Because all good nicknames are earned! LOL Meet beautiful Ashley. She worked for me this summer during our move to the new studio! She also burnt popcorn in my microwave! It still smells like burnt popcorn so I think of her every time I use it! Haha I wanted to...
I’ve been photographing some super cute kiddos these last few weeks! I wanted to take a minute and put up some quick teasers! More to come on all these sessions!! I’m about to blog some awesome senior sessions too! Thanks for looking! This is sweet baby Nikolaus! It’s the first time I’ve photographed him but...
I’m going to do something new with my fancy blog!! Every month I’m going to showcase one or two of my favorite sessions of the month including the slide show. If you’ve never been to The Smile House before we make a slide show presentation of every session. The slide show always has my favorite images from...
This is Mollie’s six month session. She’s SO stinking cute. I just love her. In fact I want to keep her. She’s such an easy going baby and just smiles all the time. She’s such a happy baby! She’s the kind of baby that makes your ovaries twitch!! We had such a great session. I had ordered some really...
Meet beautiful Erika! She’s a senior here in San Marcos. We had a super fun session! I love that she wanted to shoot in her beautiful dress outdoors! Nothing I love more than trash the dress sessions!! Course we really didn’t “trash it.” But we did create some unique awesome portraits! Erika also wants to be a photographer!...
She’s five. WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN? I remember very specifically the first time I met her. She was three weeks old. I’ve always enjoyed photographing Bianca with her quite shy little smiles. Every year I look forward to seeing what she’s going to be for Halloween too. She’s a busy little girl too. This year we...
I want to say thank you to all my wonderful clients! March 4th was exactly 5 years The Smile House portrait studio has been opened! It’s been an amazing few years. I’ve enjoyed photographing so many families, weddings, babies and seniors! I feel so blessed and fortunate to have a job that I love. In...
It’s hard to believe the Zipp twins are a year old already! Of course they’re as cute as ever! We photographed them in their Wurstfest lederhosen and dirndls outfits! (I had to google what they’re called! I hope I got it right!) They were adorable in them! The Zipp’s are hardcore Wurstfesters. (I made that...
Meet beautiful April! I LOVED this maternity session. April is just stunningly beautiful! I’m not sure even she knows how pretty she is! We had such a beautiful session. April was in town visiting a few weeks before her baby was to arrive. I’m so happy she made the time to come and do these...
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