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First Birthday Portraits At The Nashville Ellington Ag Center

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Nashville First Birthday Portraits | Nashville Family Photographer Dolly DeLong Photography

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Henley is ONE! I’m always so excited when families contact me about birthday sessions for their little ones because everyone is always so joyful. I mean, how could you not be? Your little baby is turning one! And the Millers were definitely excited to celebrate sweet Henley. Not only were we capturing her Nashville First Birthday Portraits, but we were also celebrating everything she’s gone through over the last year.

Henley has cochlear implants, and her mother, Grace Ann, wanted to really lean into documenting this phase of Henley’s life. I love that she didn’t want to shy away from any of the features that come with the implants. Instead, we celebrated them because they’ve been such a big part of her life. Although it’s been a tough year for this family, the fact that Henley could get her implants at 10 months was a HUGE milestone worth celebrating! Grace Ann, her husband, and Henley’s big brother Hayes couldn’t get enough of her. The Nashville Ag Center was a perfect setting for this milestone event. It was such a beautiful session – even in the heat!

Congratulations and Happy Birthday, Henley!!

 

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Meet Your Friendly Nashville Family Photographer 

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Dolly DeLong is a Nashville-based family & branding photographer AND a creative business owner who educates other family photographers (aka creative business owners) on systems, SOPs, workflows, and marketing (aka how to run the backend of your own family photography business as a one-woman show)! Dolly loves serving families with her bold, elevated, and radiant photography. She also loves educating other creative business owners on how to set up systems and workflows to help them save time in their businesses. Dolly produces weekly blog posts, podcast episodes on The Systems & Workflow Magic Podcast, and weekly YouTube Episodes. 

Dolly shares her expertise in Marketing, Email Marketing, and Business Systems with family photographers in an encouraging, supportive way, because she believes anyone can find joy in systems, workflows, and intentional SOPs! Plus, BONUS: Systems are where the magic happens! You can streamline and automate the backend of your creative business with ease!

Dolly’s faith and love for her family motivate her to help other business owners find the joy and freedom she’s seen in running a successful small business.

Whenever she has a spare moment, she enjoys watching TV, loves eating way too many sweets, and listens to podcasts while running or walking. Fill out her contact form to work with Dolly DeLong Photography for a family photography session.

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