Most photographers lead with, “I picked up a camera at 16. I’ve always been artistic and I studied visual arts in college.” #yaddayadda
Cute....but when you’re looking for your family photographer, what actually matters is how you’ll feel during the experience and what you’ll have left when your kids don’t look like this anymore.
So, here’s what you ACTUALLY need to know about me.
Hi! I’m Ren Lenhof, wife, mother & founder of Studio 29 Photography. Of everything I’ve accomplished and produced in my life, nothing will ever hold a candle to the joy of raising my son. He is the sunshine in my life and being his mother is the most fun I’ve ever had.
After nearly two decades of photographing families across Milwaukee & SE Wisconsin, I am ridiculously good at what I do, and what I do is much bigger than taking pretty pictures.
I know your one-year-old won’t look like this next Tuesday, and your seven-year-old is already halfway to eight...teen. gasp
I know how to read your kids, find gorgeous light, choose what will photograph beautifully, help you dress everyone, get your husband comfortable, keep things moving when your toddler has other plans, and recognize the split-second moments you didn’t even realize you’d want to remember.
Kids are kids. They don’t need to perform for me, behave perfectly, or recreate some Pinterest family that has nothing to do with yours. I’ve done this long enough to work through the chaos while it’s happening, stay completely calm, and know there are gorgeous photographs inside it!
And that’s really what you’re hiring me for. You’re hiring nearly two decades of experience so you don’t have to wonder whether we “got anything good.”
You’re hiring someone who can take this entire thing off your plate, from what everyone should wear to which photographs deserve a place on your walls and the best part - - the framed portraits arriving at your doorstep ready to fill your home!
You’re hiring someone who wants your children to grow up seeing themselves loved all over the walls of their home. I want the album on your coffee table to get fingerprints on it. I want you to look at a photograph ten years from now and remember exactly how your son fit into your arms when he was two.
Your photographs are not for Instagram. They’re for you and your loved ones, right now, and for generations to come. And when we work together, your photographs won’t disappear into your camera roll.
If you’re a millennial mother who values photography, wants your family memories thoughtfully handled from start to finish, and wants gorgeous portraits on the walls in your home without becoming the project manager of one more thing, you’re exactly who I created this experience for.
You’re exactly who I created this experience for.
And if you’ve been waiting for the right photographer?
I’d love to show you what happens when you stop settling for “good enough” family photos and hire someone who has spent nearly two decades getting exceptionally good at this.
xo,
Ren
