family photojournalism :: the case family

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Home. It is warmth and rest, it’s safety and mess, it’s nourishment and play. It’s all of these things. And when we aren’t REQUIRED to be in/at them 24/7 for weeks on end, it is a place to which we retreat and recharge between our ventures into the wider world. Thank God for home.

I’m missing joining you in your homes, friends, capturing moments like these that seem so ordinary and possibly even annoying… and yet right about now, I bet we all have an evolving and novel set of feelings about all that home is and is not.

When all of this Stay Home, Stay Safe business is over, let’s make a date to make some photos of the place you were just “trapped” in for weeks, ok?

Until then, I leave you with this sweet set of images of a very loving, connected family full of ingenuity and intellectual curiosity as well as a love for Jesus. I think you’ll feel right at home, just as I did.

day in my life :: march 2020

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It’s been an odd season for me as a photographer, even before a world pandemic came on the scene and effectively disallowed me to photograph humans for a while. But photography is therapry. It is also a skill that needs to be kept sharp. So in these days of quarantine, when all we have is home and one another, I decided to do a thing I used to do a couple of times each year: pick up the camera in the morning and keep shooting until bedtime, the good, the bad and the ugly. No tidying up ahead of time, no posing or posturing, no manipulating the day’s unfolding to be more photogenic.

So here is a day in MY (shelter in place) life. March 25, 2020. Going about our daily business at and around home while occasionally check in on the death toll in MI. :(

mini-sessions :: fall 2019 edition

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I’ve been horrid at blogging for months now, though I’ve shared some snippets of many recent in-home photojournalism sessions via my FB page. After getting behind, it’s hard to know where to start, but I decided to start by sharing some images from Mini Sessions back in October! Part of the reason for this is that I’m gearing up to do another set of mini sessions this May (16th and 23rd, I think), so I thought it would be helpful to show you all what you can expect from a mini with Brooke Collier Photography.

I had the privilege of doing so many minis this past fall and at three different locations, and I’m so delighted with the results from every single one!

During this time of working from home (which means I can’t do in-person photo shoots), I’m offering photo book organization and design services as well as professional editing of YOUR home-taken photographs. Inquire for more details.

family photojournalism :: the flint-robinsons

Families are amazing in each and every stage. And though I personally am still squarely situated in the young childhood phase, I love the chance to see and document how families with older kids do life together, too. This family is busy with all the best things: music, board games, academics, and fulfilling jobs. They move in and out among one another, each free to be his/herself and have space for his/her own endeavors, while also being so clearly connected and supported. What a beautiful environment they’ve created together.

Enjoy this peek at an ordinary morning at home together.

fresh 48 :: jacob lee

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In the fresh afterglow of birth, when mama and baby are both so open and new (having just been born, both of them), a gentle, slow on-site photo shoot puts all of that into a static frame to later be revisited when the newborn haze is over and the desire to remember what those first days were like surfaces with urgency.

We don’t ever want to forget these moments.

In a quiet hospital room on a sunny day, here’s just-born Jacob and his mama Jackie and his papa, too.