Kara Joy Photography, LLC

12/09/2025

As always, terrible at posting🙃and finally taking a minute to share some photos from one of my favorite sessions this year!!😍

03/31/2025

Some favorites from a newborn session🥰

11/11/2023

Fall has been nuts for more reasons that I can count, both personally and in my business. (More on that to come soon...I've got some updates!) Here are just a handful of favorite photos from a couple recent sessions. :)

07/25/2023

I have been HORRIBLE about sharing recent work lately! Transitioning to a full-time homeschool mom + business owner has been no joke. Mix in all the summer chaos, like camping and swimming lessons and experiencing our new town and I'm lucky if I remember to let the chickens out in the morning.

Here are a few recent favs!

08/14/2022

I get it. Nursing is super personal. I have only one photo of me nursing one of my babies (taken by me with my phone). And as a new mom, the idea of someone else taking photos of me nursing did not make me excited. I used to think things like, Why take a photo of my b**b? And: I have other pictures of my baby; why bother taking one when he's eating?

But those breastfeeding days are a blur, and now? I totally wish I had a more photos to remember that stage by. The short story is: When I realized I'd never nurse a baby again, I was a mess. I can promise you that you won't ever regret having those photos taken.

Nursing photos don't have to be revealing, and they don't have to be public. More on that and why you should take nursing photos in this recent blog post.

Those breastfeeding days are a blur, and now? I totally wish I had a more photos to remember that stage by. The short story is: When I realized I'd never nurse a baby again, I was a mess. I can promise you that you won't ever regret having those photos taken.

08/02/2022

Now vs. Newborn

Love the same angle & head tilt 😍

07/19/2022

I'm ridiculously behind on sharing recent work these days! 😬 (It doesn't help that I'm heading out on my annual AK fishing trip this week!) Here are a few favs from the birth I was so fortunate to document. I had a helluva hard time picking which ones to share, but here they are!

06/28/2022

A very happy due date to these folks! Reliving just a snippet of that wild end-of-pregnancy anticipation as I await heading to the hospital to document the birth...Ready to rock n' roll baby!

Kaitlin McInerney!!!

06/08/2022

Marriage is hard. Two people forever changing. Life always evolving. When we start saying those words: "Twenty," "thirty," "forty," I hope we laugh at the difficulty. Make jokes about all our quirks. And press on.

05/31/2022

This morning I wrote in my journal. And after I penciled "it's the last week of Kindergarten," all I had to do was fan the pages to the right about a second and a half to land on his ink smeared newborn footprints.

Time feels exactly like that sometimes. I could read through those pages and understand intellectually how we got here, but the cadence of the clock ticking will never really make sense to me. Time is too furious for my heart.

It seems there's not much I can do about it. But as I head into summer, I feel rebellious. "Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to…or risk being outcasts" (Brigid Schulte, 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘮𝘦𝘥). I've always been one to question what's commonplace and resist cultural norms, but the older I get the more courage it seems to take.

But I want...nothing. To set down the bragging rights. Reject the badge. Be the outcast. And understand more deeply that even good things can get twisted, tricky, complicated.

If this uneasiness around our culture of filling in all the cracks and this pull towards less resonates with you, I have two books for you to add to your summer reading list: 𝘕𝘰𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 and 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘋𝘰 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨.