It is almost 2018! Are you excited for the New Year? I love goals and resolutions so this is always a favorite time of the year for me. I don’t always accomplish my goals but I sure love making them! Imagining all the ways I will improve myself in the coming year is a fun process for me. If one of your resolutions for the coming year is to get family portraits done NOW is the time to book. I will be rolling out new prices with the new year. However, you can book your family portrait session for ANY time in 2018 right now and lock in the 2017 pricing. A scheduled date and a $50 deposit is required to book. Do not delay! Contact me today! Visit my About page to see 2017 pricing!

Family portrait photographer in Topsail Beach, North Carolina

[tg_small_content class=””]Anna Rasmussen is a featured and award-winning family portrait photographer in Topsail Beach, NC. She loves documentary-style family photography and beautiful lifestyle portraits. Her two favorite things to photograph are travel logs and birth stories in the hospital, but she also loves everything family – from capturing the joy of expectant parents in maternity photography, the first days of a baby’s life in Newborn Fresh 48 Sessions, the beauty of everyday chaos in Family Day-in-the-Life Sessions, and on-location family portrait sessions. Anna is an on-location photographer, serving areas of coastal North Carolina, including Wilmington, Hampstead, Topsail Beach and Surf City. Book a session here with Anna today! Thank you so much for stopping by!

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I am also ready to start filling up my North Carolina mini session spots. In North Carolina I am booking for Saturday, November 4th from 2-6pm. I will announce a location soon and it will be beautiful! Family Portrait Mini-Sessions will cost $175, and will take about twenty minutes. You will get digital files and all rights to twenty images.Contact me today!

I have gotten so far behind sharing client and personal work. Therefore I am just going to share a massive post here with examples from all the families I shot over the summer. I am so grateful for the opportunity to work with other people and capture the beauty of their lives. This summer I was honored to have a lot of vacationing clients on the beach! It was so fun to meet them down there, get to know them for a short time and photograph them and their loved ones. Are you traveling to Topsail Island? It is never too early to book a family portrait session for your vacation.

I hope you enjoy these super fun families and message me to secure your mini-session spot!

Family Portrait Mini-Sessions

[tg_small_content class=””]Anna Rasmussen is a featured and award-winning family portrait photographer in Topsail Beach, NC. She loves documentary-style family photography and beautiful lifestyle portraits. Her two favorite things to photograph are travel logs and birth stories in the hospital, but she also loves everything family – from capturing the joy of expectant parents in maternity photography, the first days of a baby’s life in Newborn Fresh 48 Sessions, the beauty of everyday chaos in Family Day-in-the-Life Sessions, and on-location family portrait sessions. Anna is an on-location photographer, serving areas of coastal North Carolina, including Wilmington, Hampstead, Topsail Beach and Surf City. Book a session here with Anna today and thank you so much for stopping by!

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I loved every single detail with this session.

The mother went above and beyond making sure each character was complete. The children ALL performed within their given parts. We had props galore, beautiful golden hour and it was just SO fun. I would do it again in a heartbeat!

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I love a good family reunion photography session! Extended family brings so much a fun to a session. Have it on a farm and I am sold! This family gets to live on this farm, and it is a blast to hang out with them and their pets! Dogs, cats, chickens, goats and pigs. I love how the kids hug the goats like they are dogs! I have always been a city person so I loved the chance to check into this way of life and capture it. I hope you have a blessed day and as always enjoy the images y’all!

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I am a mom of lots of boys, I have all brothers and what can I say except little boys make me SO happy. Don’t get me wrong, they are a hard bunch to keep up with. I am exhausted after a little boy session, but I look at these images and I love these little boy faces and antics oh so much! Those dirty knees in the photograph right above … love them. I feel so grateful for my life which has been constantly full of all things little boys. I am even  for when my older brother dumped a cup full of grasshoppers on my head, I am sure it helped me learn and grow…somehow! I hope you enjoy the images.

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This was an awesome session! Just a boy and his dad. There was tons of fun play time and I loved watching them interact. I feel so grateful for my amazing clients in Maryland, who keep coming back to me again and again! This was my third time photographing this sweet boy and it was delightful. Mom was in China bonding with a new little brother they will be bringing home this month and I cannot wait to get the four of them together in front of my lens.

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This family portrait session was one of my favorites to date. I had traveled up to DC to do a round of family portraits and of course rain was predicted for just about everyday. With a 100% chance for the day of this session! We talked about rescheduling but with six kids, as you can imagine, trying to adjust the schedule the day before was impossible. So we changed locations, opting for Union Station with its large covered and beautiful areas. Between the rain and traffic delays, I did not think the shoot would go well, but when the family finally made it I was so relieved to find the parents happy and not stressed. If you want the secret for amazing family portraits this is it :: PARENTS – just chill out and be calm. If you are happy and relaxed, your kids will be happy and relaxed, if you don’t worry about being watched in the commuter hub of DC during rush hour, your kids won’t worry about it either. I honestly love EVERY image from this session and it is because of the attitude THEY brought! I was not really surprised to leave the session feeling like I had been blessed and taught by these wonderful parents and their children, I know them and know they are an exemplary family. I am trying to apply their relaxed and go with the flow attitude to my everyday with my kids. I just want to say thank you for a wonderful evening of family portraits!

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One of the hard parts of being a military spouse is leaving clients I love behind. When I got the chance to go back to Maryland and photograph some of my favorites I could not pass it up. This family loves to keep the clothing formal, but with three young boys, there is still plenty of silliness. As a mother of boys, I love myself some good boy antics! It was such a beautiful evening at Glenwood Mansion. I hope you enjoy the images!

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