Angela Cochran Photography

Angela Cochran Photography Natural light photographer serving Salem, OH & surrounding areas. Capturing your magical family moments that you'll treasure forever.✨

Throwback to one of the most beautiful and happy nurseries I’ve ever seen in my entire life. It’s no secret how much I l...
03/31/2026

Throwback to one of the most beautiful and happy nurseries I’ve ever seen in my entire life. It’s no secret how much I love interior design, but what I really love to capture in in-home sessions are people who make their home uniquely THEIRS. No Pinterest trends, no walls full of hobby lobby’s latest displays. Just beautifully mixed colors and mixes of vintage and well loved items that speak of the people who live in the home and the things and people they love.

During every newborn or home session, I do my best to step back and capture some of the home details themselves (if time and toddler siblings allow). And it’ll forever be some of my favorite little details I get to include in galleries. Because you never know what the future may hold (speaking as someone who just recently moved from the home she brought her babies home to) and having photos of the home you created when they were so little can be such a precious tangible gift in future seasons of life.

Last year, I had a few wonderful people reach out to me and say "hey I know you don't typically shoot this but would you...
03/29/2026

Last year, I had a few wonderful people reach out to me and say "hey I know you don't typically shoot this but would you be willing...." and after we chatted about the details, I said yes. Because they had a specific story they wanted to tell and they cared so much about how it was going to be captured and preserved.

And over the last few months, I've realized I care far more about the stories I get the honor of capturing than whether it falls into a specific category or box.

Enter Alesha. I've known her since she was 19 and she was pouring her heart and soul into a GORGEOUS flower farm on her parent's land. I've watched her dream for 5+ years of getting married and casually mentioning details she was dreaming of. Well, last year her dream finally came true. And she came to me and said would you shoot my wedding. We chatted extensively about what she was envisioning and I'll never forget the moment she looked directly into my eyes and said, "Angela, I want the entire wedding to feel like HOME." I remember thinking, big breath, that's a tall order but let's nail this.

And so for the next several months, her family and friends poured all their extra time into making her parent's 100 acres absolutely pristine. From the rows of flowers they planted for the aisle, to the flowers they all designed together, to collecting antique plateware for each and every place setting, it was an intentional labor of love. And I wasn't about to fail her and miss a single detail of that. This wedding will forever make me smile every single time I think about it - not because it was absolutely gorgeous, all though it absolutely was. But because of all the time and intentionality poured into making a once a lifetime event so special and unique. No tik tok trends or dances. Just two people very much in love being celebrated by two massive families and a multitude of lifelong friends. And those are the stories I love to tell.

Both my husband and I grew up in homes were we never moved as kids. So when we bought our first house in 2017, we assume...
03/27/2026

Both my husband and I grew up in homes were we never moved as kids. So when we bought our first house in 2017, we assumed that would probably be the home where we put roots down and our kids grew up throughout the years. My husband carefully selected a home where the elementary school was just up the street, there was a corner store at the bottom of the street, and the local park was just a block away. Everything we could ever want right? We renovated every single room throughout the eight years we lived there, I planted some of my favorite flowers, we brought our babies home from the hospital to beautifully decorated nurseries I had put so much thought into, and we watched both of our kids master walking in our driveway. We spent every summer outside all day every day, playing until the sun went down every evening. And we had SO. MANY. MEMORIES. here.

Last year, we both felt the pull to move from that home. And as that process started and started to feel more and more real that yes this is most likely going to happen, I started pulling out my camera more and more in the evenings. To capture the place we once called home and what it felt like. The light I always loved that filtered perfectly through the trees and homes in the evening. The bumpy, imperfect sidewalk that told the story of a home that was almost 100 years old. The ice cream truck that we would hear blocks away and anxiously wait till it was our block's turn. And the hydrangeas and rose bushes that made my heart so happy every time they bloomed.

This year marks a little bit of a shift for me as a photographer because of that experience. I've always been known for the beautiful flower fields and dresses and, while that is so beautiful and fun, it doesn't hold the memories that photos like these do. These photos are the ones where you can feel what it was like to be there. And that's what I really want to do more of from here on out. To show up to your home and backyard and capture what those summer nights really felt like. What the real, lasting memories really LOOKED like, frozen in time forever.

So, if that sounds like something you'd really like too, I'd love to chat with you. 💕

Celebrating 5 years as a professional family photographer this year called for a little bit of an update. I'm so incredi...
02/21/2026

Celebrating 5 years as a professional family photographer this year called for a little bit of an update. I'm so incredibly thankful for all these beautiful people and the trust they placed in me to preserve the most important work they will ever do. 2026 is looking so beautiful, and I'm so thankful and excited for all the intentional storytelling ahead of me - lots of homes, backyards, beautiful colors, adorable little giggles, and another stunning private backyard wedding. Intentional storytelling that feels like art that belongs on your walls - because it does. 💕 https://angelacochranphotography.com

2025 was a such fun year for me personally and a photographer. We sold what we had assumed was our forever home and purc...
01/27/2026

2025 was a such fun year for me personally and a photographer. We sold what we had assumed was our forever home and purchased our dream fixer upper - truly the worst house with the best bones in the best neighborhood. Business wise, I had a bit of a dream year - I said yes to a bunch of things that in previous years I would have considered out of my wheelhouse.

I shot a bride's entire bridal experience from surprise proposal, engagement session in her dream garden location, secret bo***ir present for her husband's wedding day gift, and backyard garden party wedding of her dreams. A wonderfully accomplished senior who is also an aspiring pilot asked me to photograph her 2 part session which included a 5am wakeup call to an airport runway with a private plane. I took a crazy 20 hour trip and flew out to Milwaukee to mentor under one of my favorite newborn lifestyle photographers. And I photographed my usual - sweet families and their kiddos!

Unfortunately, it turns out the number of hours you have in a day are pretty finite, and the one thing that had to go was sharing all those projects here. So here's a quick glance at the beautiful explosion of color that was 2025. And in the next few weeks and months, you'll be seeing more of what happened in 2025. And more of what's to come for 2026. Which, I'm certain now, will include more yes's to new things.

Love love love seeing my repeat families on their own land. 😍Extra bonus points when it's a property full of wildflowers...
09/13/2025

Love love love seeing my repeat families on their own land. 😍Extra bonus points when it's a property full of wildflowers and weeping willow trees with a family so full of joy and love that they're nothing but perfection in every shot.

A few more highlights from the most beautiful day ever!
08/24/2025

A few more highlights from the most beautiful day ever!

Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Weaver!!!! One of the most kind hearted couples I know and the only people who can turn me...
08/24/2025

Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Weaver!!!! One of the most kind hearted couples I know and the only people who can turn me into a wedding photographer for a day. They (along with an army of incredibly talented and hard working family) planned the most stunning backyard garden party wedding and it was absolute PERFECTION.

Three years ago, this beautiful mama booked a maternity session but this adorable blonde haired, blue-eyed ball of energ...
08/04/2025

Three years ago, this beautiful mama booked a maternity session but this adorable blonde haired, blue-eyed ball of energy decided she couldn’t wait any longer to make her entrance. Their newborn session will always go down as one of my favorites because she graduated from the NICU right when a local flower farm was in full, glorious bloom.

Last night, I had the pleasure of updating their family portraits at their house. The moment I showed up, a beautiful butterfly danced across their backporch flowers just like one had done at their newborn session. 🥹

She’s not the sleepy preemie she once was and she was SO. MUCH. FUN. We had lots of whispered conversations, deals, and games to get these smiles and I didn’t mind a bit! Sometimes the most satisfying sessions are the ones where you walk away knowing you made a new little friend and captured their personality exactly as they are. That’s kinda the whole point of family photos, and getting to do it at their home was the icing on the cake.

🎶 “She’s the center of their whole world.” 🎵

Summer night sessions in a quiet simple field will always have my heart. Just your family’s beautiful faces telling the ...
07/26/2025

Summer night sessions in a quiet simple field will always have my heart. Just your family’s beautiful faces telling the story of a happy life built on love. 💕

What an absolute precious motherhood session. This sweet mama reached out to me right around Mother’s Day to ask about a...
06/26/2025

What an absolute precious motherhood session. This sweet mama reached out to me right around Mother’s Day to ask about a session with her little girls - it was a gift for herself for Mother’s Day. 🥹 I don’t think there’s many things more cherished to us mothers than getting beautiful photos with our babies. It’s something we rarely get and, my goodness, do they mean a lot.

And you know what? Someday they’ll be the gift that keeps on giving, because our babies will get big and they’ll want to see these pictures of when they were little with their mama. And they’ll mean EVEN more to them. 💕

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