Once upon a time is right now! She will love dressing up in our custom made fairy dresses and “crowns”. She will feel beautiful “modeling” as a fairy princess and holding a butterfly or baby bird. It truly is a magical experience, complete with fairy music!

Quintessence Photographic Art’s studio is located in Rescue, just minutes from El Dorado Hills, Folsom, Cameron Park, and Shingle Springs. Specializing in professional portraits of children and babies, photographic artist, Gail Shoop-Lamy guarantees that your little one will have a magical time, and that you will be thrilled with your creative, artistic portraits of your daughter(s). This session is ideal for girls ages 3 to about 8 years old, although we do now have an adult size dress if you really want to be included! Call today: (530) 363-0138

For more samples of our work, please visit our web site: www.Qphotoart.com

 Always tasteful, creative, and fun, too! Feel sexy, be sexy!

Want to do a retro “Pin Up” session instead? No problem!

How about a “Boudoir Party” with your girlfriends? We’ll photograph all of you (one at a time) while you visit, joke, egg each other on, have a little champaigne, get silly, sexy, have a blast and create a gift for your husband or boyfriend at the same time. We’ll throw in a group image of all the girls for each of you.

Sessions fill up fast, so call now (530.363.0138) to schedule your appointment. We are located just 10 minutes from El Dorado Hills and 20 minutes from Folsom in a beautiful Victorian home on 5 acres in Rescue, CA. Give him the best Valentine’s gift ever!

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I had the honor of photographing Danielle and Dan’s wedding at the Forest House Lodge in Forest Hill, CA (http://www.foresthouse.com/) . What a beautiful couple and what a beautiful location! Danielle looked amazing in her gorgeous dress. She got ready in the Bridal Salon downstairs at the Forest House. What a cool venue!

Danielle is from El Dorado County, not far from El Dorado Hills, and was one of my daughter’s good high school friends from Ponderosa High School. It was so fun to be able to photograph her on this important day!

Before Dan and Danielle did their “First Look” (where they see each other in a very special private way before the wedding), they each read a note that the other had lovingly written for this day. These two are so perfect for each other! It was obvious how much in love with each other they are!

The ceremony site for the Forest House Lodge is a mile from the lodge, and has a large grassy area with a beautiful view of the Sierra’s. Thank you Danielle and Dan for trusting me with photographing such an important day!

This young lady (six months old) is a member of the Quintessence “Precious Babies”, where we photograph her from shortly after she is born every few months until she is one year old. Her parents will get a beautiful album which will preserve memories of when she was such a little cutie pie! We had fun doing her six month session. She is so expressive! I do have to say, it was tough keeping on the head piece! Gotta be fast!!

Annika loved the pearls. She looked so cute with them on, and the were so yummy to chew on! (Yes, we do clean the pearls between babies!) This session was done at my Rescue, CA studio, which is only 10 minutes from El Dorado Hills. Lori and Nathan, are great parents, and they faithfully bring Annika up for her sessions from Rancho Cordova. This little girl is loved so much! Thank you Lori and Nathan for the honor of photographing your precious little girl!

We live and work in the best place ever for spring Easter Portraits! Just minutes from El Dorado Hills, the Quintessence Photographic Art outdoor studio (5 beautful acres) in Rescue is perfect. Featuring spring flowers, green grass, and cute little bunnies, this portrait session is a must for the little one. This year we have connected with a rabbit breeder who will be loaning us several 5 week old baby bunnies. We offer Easter cards, as well as many other beautiful print options of your child in time for Easter. Check out some of our Easter Bunny Portraits from past years. Our clients love this limited edition session and cherish the images that have such wonderful expressions on their children’s faces!

Grayson is such a sweet little boy, it didn’t take long for him to fall asleep after a good nursing. I assured his mom that he would pee (at the very least) and he didn’t disappoint.  Lucky for us, he was lying on his tummy when he let go! Grayson’s grandmother is also my source for crocheted hats, and she finished the hat with the braids (which I now have for other babies) while we took the first few images. Newborn babies are so fun to be creative with! You never know what you will get as far as expression, and they have no clue what you are dressing them up in! These image will be darling in a babies first year (baby program) album!