Maternity Photographer in Elk Grove, CA

Elk Grove has been among California's fastest-growing cities for twenty years, and it grew the way young families grow. A great many of the maternity sessions booked from here are for first babies.

Old Town is where the town still looks like itself. Main Street sits under its own planning protection, so the nineteenth-century frontages survived the building boom intact, and Old Town Plaza anchors the end of it — a few blocks of genuine character in a city that is otherwise very new.

For outdoor work, Elk Grove Regional Park's oaks give the shade and the vertical structure that open grassland does not, and a long gown needs both. The studio is about twenty-five minutes south for anyone who would rather have controlled light and the full wardrobe to choose from.

The other thing Elk Grove has in quantity is open sky. Between the older town and the newer subdivisions there is still working farmland, and on a clear evening the western horizon there gives the long, low, uncluttered light that a floor-length gown was made for. It is the best argument for booking late rather than early in the day. For anyone due through the summer, when even the evening stays over ninety degrees for weeks at a stretch, the studio twenty-five minutes south is the more comfortable answer and the wardrobe is fuller there anyway.