Kailah James Photography

Kailah James Photography Hi, I’m Kailah!

📸Lifestyle Wedding & Family Photography
🏠 Based in Nashville, TN

I serve couples & families who want to personable, heartfelt experience.

Weddings, elopements, engagements, and surprise proposals - couples are my forté!!

I used to think I had to earn doing something special.You can buy new clothes once you hit your weight goal.You can take...
08/26/2026

I used to think I had to earn doing something special.

You can buy new clothes once you hit your weight goal.
You can take a break once the laundry is put away.
You can book that vacation once you start booking more sessions.

But the truth is in doing that, I was just keeping myself from experiencing joy.

You are allowed to feel joy in any season, at any time.
You don’t need to lose weight to laugh with your children.
You don’t need to wait until the holidays to be together with your family.
You don’t need to skip photos just because it’s not a birthday, or major milestone.

Whatever season you’re in, you have permission to book the photos you want, just because. And I’ll be right here ready to get to know this version of you, because this version deserves to be remembered.

Let’s get you in the photos this fall, ok? The fall calendar opens on the 31st, tomorrow if you're on the email list. See y’all real soon! 🫶🏽

There was a time when I would’ve sworn up and down that I’d never do family photography.I was 20, deep in my delusion th...
08/24/2026

There was a time when I would’ve sworn up and down that I’d never do family photography.

I was 20, deep in my delusion that I only wanted to ever do weddings (because what could possibly change in my life that would make me unable to weddings?)

And then I had Eli a year later.

2018, and the 8 years after would turn me into a completely different person - a person who gets teary eyed any time another mom posts about their littles growing up, or photos of them holding their first baby.

That now as a mom to two elementary school aged kids, my perception has completely changed.

Now I know how fast the time truly flies by, the highs and lows of having your heart live outside your body, how difficult it can be to look at yourself in the mirror and love this new version of yourself.

Now I know how often I forget to get in the photos, because I’m the one making sure I take them.I know what it feels like to lose a mother in the family and wish you had more.

So after wiping several tears away, questioning what little sanity I have left to work with, and a small sort of grief over the girl who freaking loved weddings - I made the decision to pour my heart and soul into mamas feeling the same big feelings as me.

Motherhood changed me, but I think I may be changed for good.

Now photographing maternity, in home newborns, motherhood, and milestones. Because you deserve to be in the photo too, mama.

Is this thing on?No but for real, I really haven’t been on the grid in awhile. If you’ve followed me, I’m sure you see m...
08/24/2026

Is this thing on?

No but for real, I really haven’t been on the grid in awhile. If you’ve followed me, I’m sure you see my yapping in stories all the time about something mom related, or just general ADHD rambling.

Weirdly enough it feels so much easier to show up there. It feels like less pressure I guess? But I also have been on Instagram since she was just pictures with no captions so I thought I was immune to the whole “aesthetic” posting thing that started happening.

Boy was I wrong.

As much as I’d like to get on here and say I don’t care, a part of me started to a few years back. And that part of me kept growing bigger and bigger, until posting felt impossible. I’d type out a caption, erase, rewrite, repeat, and then I still wouldn’t post.

Why?

Because it felt weird, inauthentic, like I was trying to sell you something instead of just trying to say hey look at these photos I like to take.

I got lost in feeling like my thoughts didn’t matter, that no one cared - and why that may still be true, the desire I have as a mother to show up for other moms lit a fire in me.

Being surrounded by other mothers and photographers in July, motivated me to return and do what I do best - just be Kailah.

So whether you’re new here, or you’ve been here for every single one of my pivots - thank you. Each of you have healed something in me this past year, and I’m ready to use this space to give back some of that energy to you. We deserve the love we pour out, and I’m just getting started.

Follow along if you want some motherhood realness, cute pictures of babies, and families and spaces that look more like you. I’m back, hopefully for good this time!

In your corner always,
Kailah

motherhood photographer, nashville family photographer, lifestyle family photographer

It’s harder than it sounds, and I get it that!!We plan a picture, professional or not, and it seems that ends up being t...
04/04/2026

It’s harder than it sounds, and I get it that!!

We plan a picture, professional or not, and it seems that ends up being the exact moment where no one is listening, everybody’s hungry, you realized you left that one outfit in the washer, and then your sleeve gets caught on the door k**b on the way out - then suddenly you’re not feeling it either 🫠

We show up like this, and we worry. We stress. We overthink.

But have you ever taken a moment to watch your kids when they think you aren’t looking?

Something about the way they just exist - giggling and creating their own fun without a care in the world. Without worry.

Why can’t a family session feel the same way?

When we lean into their lack of time awareness, and focus on the important things - like play & being together. Suddenly it doesn’t matter if they are being loud or getting their clothes dirty.

Because perfection was never what we were trying to capture. Just you. Exactly as you are. 🫶🏽

🏷️ lifestyle family photos, nashville family photographer, golden hour photos with kids, family pictures, family photography

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