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serving the Pittsburgh, PA area

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2017 Favorites – Portraits

Portrait Photographer in Irwin, PA - Favorites from 2017

This week, I will be breaking my Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday posting routine to highlight my favorite images from 2017! I’ve broken my favorite images down into four categories: roller coasters, portraits, engagements, and weddings. 2017 was the most amazing year & I have the images to prove it!!

Wait just a second, I shoot portraits?!
Shhhh, this is our little secret, okay?
Here’s the deal: I don’t advertise that I shoot portraits. You can look all over my website, you won’t find a single “portrait” session advertised. I no longer blog these sessions either! I always post sneak peeks on my Facebook page, but other than that, that’s it.

Maternity photos, newborns, kids, seniors, families – I can do all of it, but I’ve chosen to focus all of my efforts on the three things I love the absolute most: proposals, engagements, and weddings. (You know what they say, “Just because you can do it all, doesn’t mean you should.”) However, proposals, engagements, and weddings naturally tend to lead to babies & families! So, if you’ve followed my blog for any length of time, you’ll notice that probably 90% of the portraits I take are for people I’ve already photographed (usually at their “day one” – on their wedding day)!

So, if most of the people in this post look really familiar – they should! I’ve photographed some of these families every single year for the last 8 years!! And they’re absolutely precious to me. They’re some of my dearest friends & I love them. When we get together for photos, it’s more of an excuse for us to just hang out (“us”, meaning them + me + my camera, of course).

I think it’s one of my favorite things about being a photographer: the relationships I’ve formed thru my business have held tight for years – it’s amazing & seriously the best perk of this job!

If you’d like to see some of my previous “favorite portrait” posts, you can find 2016’s favorite portraits here, 2015’s favorite portraits here, & 2014’s favorite portraits here! In fact, it’s really fun to go back and see how each family has grown & changed!

So, here we go! These are my favorite portraits (ranging from maternity & newborn to families & seniors) from 2017 (in absolutely no particular order).

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I shared all of my favorite roller coaster photos from 2017!
Be sure to hang around! Tomorrow, I’ll be posting my favorite engagement images & Thursday brings my favorite wedding images!

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Hi Im Kara Abbey a Wedding Photographer in Irwin PA

Hi! I'm Kara!

Welcome to my blog!

I'm a Pittsburgh-based wedding photographer and wedding content creator with a love for storytelling, both on wedding days and beyond.

I've been part of the wedding industry since 2009, documenting 250+ wedding days and helping couples preserve the moments, big and small, that make their day uniquely theirs.

When I'm not working a wedding, you'll probably find me creating videos for my personal YouTube channel, The Adventuring Abbeys, where my family and I share our love of amusement parks, roller coasters, and travel.

Around here, you'll find wedding inspiration and behind-the-scenes content, family adventures, amusement park visits, travel stories, and a little bit of everyday life.

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