Children & Family

Lifestyle Newborn | Ari English

June 18, 2019

When Jessica reached out to me about newborn photography, I was thrilled. The family is new to Knoxville and I am so happy to have the opportunity to document their story as they added their newest member, Ari. Big Sis, Celine is such a big helper and so sweet with her little sister. I love lifestyle newborn session where I get to step into the families home and capture them in their environment and as a family.

Enjoy this sweet session and I can’t wait to capture more of these beautiful girls as they grow!

Knoxville Family Photography | Ewart Family

April 4, 2019

You guys! Spring is finally here, while it may only last 4.2 seconds before it is officially “surface of the sun hot” I’ll take it while I have it. I had such a blast catching up with the Ewart family last week. We actually had the session planned for last fall and had to postpone, I am so glad we did cause we caught the cherry blossoms in full bloom!

I will be offering some outdoor Spring mini sessions over the next several weeks on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, weather permitting. If you are interested in booking send me a message!

Enjoy a little taste of Spring and this adorable family.

Lifestyle Newborn Photography | Hudson

March 22, 2019

Welcome to the world, Hudson Elliot Frost! Little man was set to be a March baby, but he was too excited and had to slide in on the last day of February. I got to spend the day with Hudson and his mom and dad a couple of weeks ago and he is the picture of perfection. I love doing in home lifestyle newborn sessions. It is so special to get a glimpse into a growing family in their element, in their home. Bonus! I get to capture sweet images of the little ones nursery. I love the neutral animal theme Hillary selected for Hudson’s nursery.

If you have a growing family, I would love to be there to capture your story! Contact me today to discuss newborn, family and baby first year plans.

Historic Southern Railway

March 4, 2019

I am so excited to be working with the Historic Southern Railway to offer an indoor location for Spring Mini Sessions this year! Mother nature has been a little cray cray the last several weeks and this location will provide us with an amazing backdrop rain or shine or freezing temps!

Here is a little preview of what to expect for the set up. I have teamed up with the amazing ladies at Swank Floral to bring a pop of spring to the fireplace at the historic railway. We will have even more floral the day of our mini sessions. I CAN NOT wait. 😍

Here are a few images I took last weekend to show you just how beautiful this historic location really is!

Mini Sessions will be held March 31st at the Historic Southern Railway Station. Cost is $150 and includes a 20 minute session and 10 edited images (additional images and products available for purchase).

Email me today to secure your session, space is limited. https://mandyhartphoto.com/contact/

Just a glimpse of some of the amazing work of Swank Floral.

A look at the classic set up we will have for our sessions.

I took my little model along with me as well, she never misses a chance to wear a pretty dress!

This girl was so excited to get dressed up for me to take her pictures.

The Railway station offers some beautiful simple backdrop for mom and dad too.

I even got a couple of pictures of me and my girl.

Love the natural light and the amazing architecture

My girl at 10

January 18, 2019

It is hard to believe that my little muse has already been 10 for an entire month. Did you read that??? 10! TEN whole years old. I literally can not believe just how fast the time flies. Everyone says it… and when you are in the thick of middle of the night feedings, diapers up to your eyeballs and toddler tantrums it is really hard to believe those people. Trust me, it goes by soooo very fast. It has taken me a little while to get to this because we arrived home from an international trip to Botswana and the Seychelles in December (check out that post here!) and we came home the evening before her birthday. AND then, Christmas was one week later… and New Years one week later…. and back to school one week later. You get the picture! It was a little cray!!!!

Last week I finally got an opportunity to take her out and shoot some updated pictures. You may think that I am taking pictures of her alllllllll the time and sometimes I am, but I still aim to be purposeful and try to take some real (read real as….. picked out clothes and actually brushed your hair, haha) pictures at least twice a year. It is really amazing just how much they really do change in the matter of 6 months. So in full disclosure, I took these images one day after picking her up from school. I had packed an outfit and brought with me. Well, it turns out the new jeans that I bought for her are way too big and would have fallen off. So thankfully she had on grey leggings under her uniform that day. It doesn’t look great but we went with it. Oh and I really wish the purple fitbit had not been in all the pictures! That’s just how life works I suppose.

I hope you enjoy a little look at this lady at 10. She is full of spunk and pizzazz and I hope that never changes. She is kind, gentle and loving. I adore watching her with kids in our neighborhood who are younger! She takes my breath away with her grace and patience with them, something I don’t always see in our own interactions. She loves to snuggle today more than when she was a toddler and I will soak up every single minute of those snuggles. She is adventurous but cautiously reserved. She is going to move mountains one day, when she decides what mountain to move! Take a look at the bottom for a peak at her all through the years.

If it’s been a while since you got pictures of your kids, reach out and I would love to chat!

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And a look back 2009 to current!

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Knoxville Family Photographer | The Thomas Family

January 7, 2019

I have some pretty amazing clients, some whom have been with me since nearly the beginning when this business started really from nothing a little over three years ago. I have been blessed to photograph the sweet Thomas family several times over the years. Sit back with me as I reminisce back to all those beautiful fall leaves and when there was green left in the world (is it Spring yet? haha!) and enjoy a little snippet of their sweet session.

By the way, little Max really has a way of stealing the show!

Knoxville Family Photographer | The Serfass Family

August 27, 2018

So it has been a hot minute since I updated my blog, SORRY! Life is just happening at a monumental pace around here and I, like all the rest of you are just trying to keep up. Like for example, my precious little angel daughter just started FOURTH grade, like seriously this has to stop. Time must slow down! But I guess if I can’t get time to stop or at least slow down the next best thing for me to do is to document it. 🙂

It has been a very busy year for Mandy Hart Photo. I announced at the first of this year that I would now be adding Weddings to my service offering and I am so excited that my first Wedding is next weekend, so be on the look out for a new post with that Wedding very soon. I am already booking into next May and June and I am just so very excited.

I also started offering a “Watch Me Grow” baby package during 2017 and this little cutie below is one of my clients. He is absolutely adorable and I have loved getting to follow along on his progress since birth. Here is a snippet of our most recent session with Little Austin (7 months old) and his whole family.

If you would like more information on my Watch Me Grow package, click here.

Big Brother Jackson, loves his momma!

Knoxville Portrait Photographer | The Bromley Family

May 21, 2018

Hi friends and followers! Sorry for absolutely no blog posts this year. UUGGGGG. I just realized so far I blogged ONE time this entire calendar year. However, I just looked it up and I have shot over 50 families, events, headshots, engagement sessions so far this year!!! WOWZA. Today is the 140th day of the year and I have basically been photographing every three days, not bad. I promise to do better with blogging, maybe.

I had the privilege of meeting the sweet Bromley family last week. They are the most adorable thing ever, like they walked right out of a southern living magazine. I hope you enjoy.

Contact me today to schedule your next portrait session, and I still have some summer and fall wedding dates available!! Contact me today!!

Knoxville Family Photographer | The Counts Family

March 29, 2018

It has been such a pleasure capturing all the milestones in this precious family’s life. I have known Eric for over 20 years (wow, thats hard to believe!) and when they asked me to capture the whole family, I was so excited. I really think capturing your entire family; parents, siblings and cousins as often as possible is so important. Some of my favorite pictures are from when my daughter was around a year old and she is in pictures with my grandmother.

So friends if your whole family is going to be together sometime soon, like this weekend during Easter…. please pick up a camera and hand it to a neighbor get an image of your whole family. I’d love to capture those moments for you as well!

Enjoy the Counts family, everyone was in town to celebrate Dad’s 78th birthday, a milestone not to be missed!

Knoxville Family Photographer

Riley || Back to School || Knoxville Portrait Photographer

August 15, 2017

So yesterday was my little ones first day of the 3rd grade. I am still over here in denial and wishing time would stop. One of the things that I love about my daughter going to private school is the fact that she gets to wear a uniform. That is just one more battle we don’t have to have each morning! Although now that we are in our fourth year of private school I am missing that pop of personality that she has in our back to school pictures and then throw in the fact that every school picture she is in the uniform too and it is a little blah for me.

So this year I spent the last week of summer just her and I really doing things together and exploring some places we had never been to in the city. I took the opportunity to snag a few “first day” pictures along the way.

I hope you enjoy!

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