Storybook Fairy Tale Maternity & Newborn Session

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When my client's husband described the photos as looking like they came from a "storybook fairy tale," I knew I had done my job.  It was so great to plan this anthropologie inspired maternity session in Danville and visiting their home to meet baby girl.

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