At this time Erika Michelle Photography is no loger taking new bookings. 

 

Erika Michelle will no longer take new bookings.  If your session is currently booked, we will proceed as scheduled. 

I have decided to go back to my career as a special education teacher.  Due to the demands of this position, I need to take a step back from the buisness.  

Thank you for your support. 

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First Birthday

Congratulations!!!! You made it through the first year!  Erika Michelle offers custom cake smash sessions.  Each cake smash session is planned according to your vision.  Cake smash sesison start with a mini family session, then we move into the cake smash protion, and last we end the sesison with a fun bubble bath.

If a cake smash is not your thing, no problem! Your sesison will focus more on family photos while also including some simple and classic portraits of your baby boy/girl.

Lemons cake smash with baby girl
baby boy, white, gold and blue

I believe it is important ot capture the whole family. Family photos are included with your first birthday session! I also included simple and classic photos of your new 1 year old. 

Featured First Birthday Sessions

Clean and Simple Cake Smash | Charlotte Baby Photographer

Clean and Simple Cake Smash | Charlotte Baby Photographer

I love this clean and simple  cake smash session  featuring adorable Wyatt.  In a way, clean and simple is much harder to edit than a set filled with props.  But I always love the outcome.   We first met at a nearby park for some quick family photos.  I always...

Fun and Girly Cake Smash | Charlotte Baby Photographer

Fun and Girly Cake Smash | Charlotte Baby Photographer

  I had a super fun, girly, and birthday session  with this little cuties.  My inspiration for this set up was were cute polka dot outfit.  Mom, who at the time was moving to TX, did not have time to think of a theme she likes.  So she let me have full creativity...

Outside Cake Smash | Charlotte Cake Smash Photographer

Outside Cake Smash | Charlotte Cake Smash Photographer

  Baby boy Reyansh turned the big one in February, but Mom really wanted some outside first birthday portraits of her baby boy. They just moved from Chicago, which as you may now can be winter through May.   We picked a day early in May and we got one warm day...