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Announcing our next workshop! Light, Pose, & Profit: The Art of the Newborn Photography Business April 17-19, 2015  ~ Friday 6pm through Sunday 6pm ~ Detailed itinerary of the entire weekend is available – just email me at amanda@kimberlingrayphotography.com Participants must reside at least 35 miles from our zip code, 23455.  (We do offer a […]

I would love to share pictures of me breastfeeding my children with you today…. but I can’t. I can’t because I never had pictures taken of me nursing my babies.  I never took selfies or had anyone snap a picture of me breastfeeding and I surely didn’t have a professional take beautiful pictures.  I was […]

Welcome to the Kimberlin Gray Photography Studio located in Virginia Beach, Virginia!  We would love for you to come by and see us in person….but until then, here is a look at what makes us unique from other studios in the area.  We have a 1100 sq ft studio at the North End of Virginia […]

This is a blog post that is simultaneously exciting and terrifying to write. You see, change is hard for a lot of people and a lot of reasons.  For me, I usually LOVE change.  My mother has called me ‘fickle’ for a number of years, but I maintain that I just like change…I like new […]

This class is for those in Hampton Roads who are considering starting a photography business, those who have recently opened a business, or even those who have a photography business but want to be sure they are doing so legally and profitably.  We will cover the basic principles of owning a business, how to legally […]

There have been quite a few photographers who have written blog posts about why custom photography costs more.  Many of them are spot-on and very informative for people who may not have ever had the experience of a custom, on-location photographer before.  In fact, most of us are so used to the “in-and-out mall studio” […]

I didn’t realize how hard it would be to choose just TEN images from the whole year until I started going back through my archives!  To be honest, I probably could have chosen ten per birth for this particular category – each birth experience is so different and the images truly tell the story of […]

What is a Mini-Sesssion anyway? A mini-session is basically a scaled down version of a custom photo session with Kimberlin Gray Photography.   It includes a 20 minute portrait session and 5 Gift Prints from the 5-10 fully edited images.   Special a la carte items are also offered at a discounted rate only for these […]

I have been seeing other photographers that I admire posting their “Top 10 of 2010” blog posts all week long.  So, I planned to sit down on the Eve of 2011 to put together my Top 10…and it quickly became a Top 100 list.  There are just too many beautiful babies, gorgeous moms-to-be, fabulous families, […]