Brooke Tucker Photography Blog

Virginia Beach, VA Natural Light Family, Birth & Maternity Photographer

I'm Brooke! I'm a crazy salt lover, loud laughing goof and beach lover! I'm a wife, a mother to a spunky little man, and a camera artist! I'm a lover of light and muddy or sandy toes who always finds my family barefoot!
We JUST moved BACK to our hometown of VIRGINIA BEACH and I'm beyond excited to dip my toes back into the ocean right in our backyard!
Every day I am amazed at how the small moments in life; the ones in between the here and there take my breath away. I believe that REAL IS BETTER THAN PERFECT and that motherhood should be celebrated!
I believe that each second: tantrums and tears, belly laughs and smiles.. they all hold the power of our legacy! The lovely moments that are often left out of the family portrait are those that are cherished the most: the baking days, the family dinner, the nights we stay up with our sick babes! They all contain the truest beauty of unconditional love!

Take a moment, if you have a few, and step inside the moments and the stories of my life and the lives of my brave and amazing clients.
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Monthly Archives: September 2015

09.03.15

Baby Beach Bums | A sunrise cake smash

Beautiful Sunrise Surfing Cake Smash by Brooke Tucker Photography

This might be one of my all time favorite sunrise sessions to date! I absolutely adore these cutie pie twins and when their seriously amazing momma started telling me her idea for their first year photos and smashing… I have to admit I was out of my mind excited!!!

It’s no secret I love the beach! It’s no secret that sunrise sessions are one of my favorites because I have always been an early riser! I am also a surfer and have been ever since I can remember (more to come on that tomorrow!!) So when K started talking about all these together, I could hardly contain my excitement!

I met this sweet family back when I helped to shoot their wedding with Elizabeth Friske! K and J had a super intimate wedding in Sandbridge and it was the perfect wedding for these surfing and beach loving adventure fun couple! Shortly after, K contacted me because they were starting their family… a family not only with one little but TWO littles… twins!

I’ve been extremely blessed to get to know them on this wild journey and I have to tell you…I feel like watching K dive into motherhood with twins with such grace and sense of fun has helped me dive into motherhood as well!

Beautiful Sunrise Surfing Cake Smash by Brooke Tucker Photography

I am so thankful for K’s great friend who came with us and helped us on our beachy sunrise session! It was kind of funny to watch us three girls trek down to the ocean with two babies, a surfboard, a wagon filled to the brim, a tank of air to fill the balloons, a cake, outfit changes, etc! We made it though just as the sun was rising over the ocean in the most magnificent and breathtaking way! We saw colors of pinks and blues and purples and yellows! If you have never been out to sandbridge for the sunrise or sunset, please take the opportunity to go! I promise you… it will overwhelm you it’s so stunning!

Here are some of my favorites from our morning together! This session was just too cute for words!

*One of my favorites is when K steps in to show the girls what to DO with the cakes!

Beautiful Sunrise Surfing Cake Smash by Brooke Tucker Photography

Happy One year birthday girls!!! You are getting so big and taking on so many adventures and challenges!! I can’t wait to continue to watch you grow and take on even bigger adventures in the years to come!!!

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09.02.15

The H Family | One last trip to the beach as 3

Lifestyle Beach Maternity Session by Brooke Tucker Photography

There is something so incredibly special to me when a family says, we want to head down to the beach and have some time together just playing and laughing and “being us”. What’s even better is when that family is about to bring home a new addition very soon and this time together on the beach just might be one of the sweetest and last moments they are all together JUST as family of three!

This session in particular was a very sweet time! This is a family that is anxiously awaiting the arrival of a new baby girl and they couldn’t be more excited! This is a family that is full of love and laughter and playful moments! They adore their time spent together! They are full of giggles and silly moments! They are full of hugs and kisses and exploration! Every single second is precious and new and wild and free for them! This new little one is beyond blessed to be a part of this incredible family and she will be such an incredible light and addition!

Lifestyle Beach Maternity Session by Brooke Tucker Photography

We had the perfect evening for our play date at the beach! I loved that Joey was able to run around and explore as much as he could! He was already familiar with our spot as his mom and dad came there early in the week and brought a picnic dinner! I love that they are about to bring home another baby and yet in all the preparations and craziness of life, these two beautiful parents still find time to be romantic and spontaneous! They dropped what they were doing and left life behind a little bit! They packed a picnic, packed up their little one in the car and decided to come all the way out to Sandbridge so they could scope out the landscape and enjoy the gorgeous sunset! These are the moments that life is made of and it reminded me that no matter what is going on, no matter what our routine says or bedtime ritual we have… sometimes you just have to do these things because they are oh so worth it!

Life is about the little things and those quiet moments that our children will remember!

Lifestyle Beach Maternity Session by Brooke Tucker Photography

Doesn’t this momma have the most beautiful smile… ever?!

Lifestyle Beach Maternity Session by Brooke Tucker Photography

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09.01.15

Ben Michael | At Home

Lifestyle Newborn Photographer Brooke Tucker

What’s better than bringing your new baby home from the hospital… to YOUR home! Your home as a family! The home that you have been preparing and nesting and dreaming in for months now. The home that you have been sitting in and patiently waiting and dreaming about what it will be like when it’s filled with baby coo’s and cries and the pitter patter of little feet!

There’s no better feeling in the world! You have the feeling of breathing easy because finally you are home from the hospital and in your own space! You have that excited feeling of oh my gosh, yes this is real now and this little beautiful piece of heaven is really and truly ours!!

There’s also still that sense of crazy feeling like wow… this is really happening and this baby is finally here!

That’s why I love lifestyle sessions! I get to capture all of those feelings! All of those moments of just coming home with you new and whole family!

Lifestyle Newborn Photographer Brooke Tucker

I love Elizabeth and Paul so incredibly much! There birth story was just unreal and if you haven’t read it yet, be sure to catch up with it Here. Elizabeth was incredible and I still get chills when I think about her strength and her will!

What I love most about coming home and visiting with my clients for their newborn sessions is how much they change in just a short amount of time! That’s why it’s so important to capture these moments while they are still so little! They grow so much day by day!

Ben is such a happy little man! He already has such a big personality! He is going to be such fun to watch as he grows and learns. He is already so alert and so silly. He’s making mom and dad laugh and I bet he’s going to be a little jokester and the light of any room! He and his big brother (furry brother) are already BFF’s. Some of my favorite moments of the whole session are of the two of them together!

Lifestyle Newborn Photographer Brooke Tucker