Ridgedog Design & Photography

We are a family of SEVEN. Amanda is a totally laid back, fun-​loving photographer that can handle that size group with such ease. She knew exactly what to say to my children to make them comfortable and cooperative. I also should mention our four legged child was also at our session, so really there were EIGHT of us. I look forward to many more sessions with Ridgedog, but am a little worried I will run out of wall space. I guess I will just have to buy a bigger house!

What can I say about Amanda? We had seen her work on FB with some of our friends and needed to have some family portraits done in the style of «anti-​portrait-​studio». We contacted Amanda and gave some sort of vague direction that we didn’t want her messing with our chin angle and there would be no matching shirts, but gave no really good information about what we wanted b/​c we didn’t actually know. We wanted pictures that made our kids look angelic, me 40 lbs lighter and my husband taller. And we kind of wanted to look happy. She suggested locations (fabulous) and took everything in stride at the shoot including (but DEFINITELY not limited to) my son throwing both his shoes at her head. Amanda also has a 3 year old and apparently speaks this language well. Post hissy fit, my son does not look like he just tried to kill the photographer and is now crying hysterically w/​snot running down his nose… he is demurely looking down and holding his baby sister like there is nothing he loves more. She’s. a. genius. She was patient with all of us and really acted like she had nothing she’d rather be doing on a Sunday afternoon that a photoshoot that was like herding cats. Angry, rabid, feral cats.
She’s priced really well… and just burns the shots you want onto a CD so you can get as many photos of whatever size you want without a bunch of weird and confusing photo packages. Yay Amanda. Definitely coming back. We might go barefoot next time though… just to be safe.