Hampton Roads Portrait Photographer - Welcome Spring!

The weather is turning warmer, the buds are beginning to bloom! 

Now is the time to book your on location portraits and capture those beautiful memories in nature's most spectacular back drop.

melissablissphotography@gmail.com

757-646-7408

A Pretty Picnic in the Woods

An apple a Day keeps the winter gloomies away. 

And what could be more fun than an apple picnic in the woods?

I sure had fun planning and shooting this session with my girls. 

If you'd like to book a similar session contact me for details!

Melissa Bliss Rich - Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Portsmouth area family and portrait photographer. 

Booking Valentine's Day Mini Sessions - Norfolk, Virginia Beach Portrait Photographer

A daughter is a gift of love.

Christmas Cutie

Sweet Morning Light

Kelly Family Portraits

 I just finished up my latest portrait gallery of this sweet little family. I was lucky enough to spend an awesome afternoon with the Kellys. Their daughter certainly stole the show. What a cutie pie!!

The little family is growing. The Kellys are expecting a new bundle of joy in 2013! Congratulations Kelly family!! And thank you for the opportunity to capture your memories!

Autumn Splendor

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the Autumn tree."

~Emily Bronte

 "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

~John Donne

 "Autumn is a second spring, when every leaf's a flower."

~Albert Camus

"Autumn, the year's last lovliest smile."

~William Cullen Bryant

"Just before the death of flowers, and before they are buried in snow, 

there comes a festival season, when nature is all aglow."

~Author Unknown

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns."

~George Eliot

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” 

~Lauren DeStafano

“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” 

~Lee Maynard

"Thy bounty shines in autumn unconfined, and spreads a common feast for all that live."

~James Thomson

"Besides the autumn poets sing,

A few prosaic days

A little this side of the snow

And that side of the haze."

~Emily Dickinson

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all."

~Stanley Horowitz

There was a little girl

who had a little curl... 

Keefe Family

I had the pleasure of photographing this sweet family of four the other day. We met at a local university and had tons of fun playing on the grounds. These two young cutie pies have the most gorgeous eyes! I'm a lucky girl to be able to call this my job!

Thank you Keefe family, for choosing me to capture your memories!

I currently have two spots left in October for Fall photo sessions. Contact me at melissa b rich at gmail dot com if you'd like to book a session!

An Afternoon in the Woods