courtney rae films
MINNEAPOLIS FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHY + FILMS
For the days you already know you’ll miss.
The way they reach for you. The noise from the next room. The routines that feel entirely ordinary until, suddenly, they aren’t.
Your family doesn’t need to perform for the camera. You only need to be together. I’ll preserve the movement, personalities, relationships, and tiny details that make this season unmistakably yours.
YOUR LIFE IS ALREADY WORTH REMEMBERING
These sessions are less about creating a perfect family portrait and more about noticing what is already here.
We might spend a morning at home making pancakes, wander through a familiar neighborhood, visit the lake you return to every summer, or document an ordinary evening before bedtime. I’ll offer gentle direction when it’s helpful, but there’s no expectation that everyone look at the camera, behave perfectly, or stay clean.
The photographs and films we make will hold more than what your family looked like. They’ll bring you back to how you moved around one another, what made your children laugh, and what it felt like to belong to this particular version of your family.
You’ll want to remember
who they were at this age.
(And who you were before them.)
The days move quickly.
but the years are short.
The beautiful evidence
of a life lived together.
A little unruly.
Entirely your own.
Nothing performed.
No one asked to be perfect.
Just your family,
before everything changes again.