Michelle Fonseca Photography

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Michelle Fonseca Photography Storyteller Photographer. Based in Avon, Connecticut.

10/01/2026

This button has captured first steps and baby bumps and brand new babies who fit in the palm of your hand.

It has captured kids who refused to smile and then gave me the best frame of the whole session.

Moms finally getting in the frame. Dads forgetting they ever said they hated photos.

Grandparents holding the littlest ones like they are the whole world. Because they are.

Couples saying I do in the most beautiful moments I have ever witnessed. Engagements full of nervous excitement and so much love it fills the whole frame.

Siblings. Extended families. Every kind of connection. Every kind of love.

Over 15 years of pressing it and I am still not tired of what comes out on the other side. 🥹

09/30/2026

This is your sign. 🍂
Fall in Connecticut does not last long. Don’t wait to book your Fall Mini Sessions. Three locations this year and they go fast.
Book your spot here:🍂
https://michellefonsecaphotography.com/booking-site

New here? I’m Michelle — Connecticut family and portrait photographer with over 15 years behind the lens. Stick around for session inspo, real moments, and the occasional reminder to slow down and notice. Save this, share it with your people, and come back anytime.

We raced the rain and won. This senior session at Winding Trails gave us the softest light and the prettiest backdrop, t...
09/25/2026

We raced the rain and won. This senior session at Winding Trails gave us the softest light and the prettiest backdrop, timed just right before the weather started turning on us.

I had the joy of photographing her older sister’s senior session at this exact spot a couple of years ago, so getting to continue that little tradition with her meant so much. Such a wonderful family, through and through. ❤️

Happy Friday!

I tell this family every single time I photograph them that I want to be adopted. They have not said yes yet but I am no...
06/12/2026

I tell this family every single time I photograph them that I want to be adopted. They have not said yes yet but I am not giving up.

This is the second time I have had the honor of photographing them all together and every single time I walk away thinking the same thing: their connection is wonderful. The kind of love and joy that fills an entire field and makes my job feel less like work and more like I accidentally got invited to the best family reunion of the year.

They showed up in the heat. Full golden hour commitment, full trooper energy, zero complaints even when the Connecticut spring weather had absolutely no business being that warm. We waited for that soft late light and it gave us everything.

And then they hit me with the special request. Grandparents and grandkids in the front, adult kids jumping behind them. I cannot tell you how much I love it. That frame alone was worth every drop of sweat. 🤩

This was one of three extended family sessions I photographed in three weeks and I will say it again: extended family sessions are my absolute favorite thing. The chaos, the layers, the love between generations, the grandparents holding little ones, the siblings who haven’t been in the same photo in years. There is nothing like it.

Book your extended family session through the link in bio.

👋 New here? I’m Michelle — Connecticut family and portrait photographer with over 15 years behind the lens. Stick around for session inspo, real moments, and the occasional reminder to slow down and notice. Save this, share it with your people, and come back anytime.



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Every single year. Every single year I do this to myself.I am the person who cries at everything. Weddings speeches. Hal...
06/11/2026

Every single year. Every single year I do this to myself.

I am the person who cries at everything. Weddings speeches. Hallmark movies in November. That one scene in Toy Story that we do not talk about. Holiday commercials. So honestly nobody should be surprised.

But every June without fail I sit down with my coffee, open social media, and completely fall apart over graduation posts of kids I have barely (or never) met.

My own kids are currently fighting over the last mini pancake and arguing about whether we are watching Pokémon or paw patrol like this is a very serious life decision. Nobody in this house is graduating except preschool and yet here I am, fully sobbing over a stranger’s senior photo.

Completely unhinged. Fully committed. No notes.

But here is the thing. I see you, senior parents. I see the little league games and the school drop offs and the late nights and the early mornings and the lunches you packed and the homework you sat through and the hard conversations and the quiet moments you thought nobody noticed.

You noticed. You showed up. Every single time.

And now they are walking across a stage in a cap and gown looking like an actual adult and you are sitting in the bleachers thinking wait. Was that it? Did I blink?

You did not blink. You were there for every single second of it. And now the most beautiful and terrifying part begins: watching them go live the life you worked so hard to give them.

Let yourself feel this moment. You have earned every single tear. 🎓

Congratulations to the Class of 2026!

👋 New here? I’m Michelle — Connecticut family and portrait photographer with over 15 years behind the lens. Stick around for session inspo, real moments, and the occasional reminder to slow down and notice. Save this, share it with your people, and come back anytime.

06/10/2026

The plan was content. The reality was everything else. 😂

It started with good intentions. It ended with a million of tabs open, a culled gallery, fourteen unread emails, a Flodesk sequence I swore I would finish last week, a client inquiry I stopped to answer because people come first, and yes, a client message that completely wrecked me in the best way and derailed my entire afternoon. Zero regrets on that one. 🥹

This is the part nobody sees. The back end of running a photography business is a whole entire second job. Editing, emailing, marketing, blogging, booking, invoicing, social media, newsletters, client prep, gallery delivery, and somehow also being a present mom, wife and a functioning human being.

The photos on this feed are the pretty part. This right here is the rest of it. And I would not trade it for anything. Even on the days I absolutely would. 😂

To every mom solopreneur out there doing all of this with zero instruction manual and way too many tabs open: you are not alone and you are doing better than you think.

We will try again tomorrow.

Tag a fellow solopreneur who needs to see this. 🤍

👋 New here? I’m Michelle — Connecticut family and portrait photographer with over 15 years behind the lens. Stick around for session inspo, real moments, and the occasional reminder to slow down and notice. Save this, share it with your people, and come back anytime.



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Grandparents and grandkids. I will never get tired of this. Ever. There is a love in these frames that I genuinely canno...
06/09/2026

Grandparents and grandkids. I will never get tired of this. Ever.

There is a love in these frames that I genuinely cannot put into words. I just know it every single time I see it through my lens.

If you are booking an extended family session, please let me steal the grandparents and the little ones for a few frames alone. Trust me on this one.

👋 New here? I’m Michelle — Connecticut family and portrait photographer with over 15 years behind the lens. Stick around for session inspo, real moments, and the occasional reminder to slow down and notice. Save this, share it with your people, and come back anytime.

06/08/2026

POV: a star is born 🌟

She came in for her family session. She left as the main character.

This is what happens when a kid feels comfortable, safe, and trusted in front of a camera. They stop thinking about the camera entirely. And everything you see here is what comes out naturally when that happens.

Our whole job is just creating that space. The kids do the rest.

Every. Single. Time.

👋 New here? I’m Michelle — Connecticut family and portrait photographer with over 15 years behind the lens. Stick around for session inspo, real moments, and the occasional reminder to slow down and notice. Save this, share it with your people, and come back anytime.

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625 North Road
Groton, CT
06340

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10am - 2pm

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