Meet Denise

Hi, I’m Denise!
I’m the gal behind the camera at Denise Hurdle Photography! I have been in business since August of 2012. I work out of my cozy studio that has everything you could need during your session!

• I’m mama to two grown kids, and Grandma to Cody and Emma
• Married to my hubby for 40 years 🤯
• I  lived in South Orange County my whole life until we decided to follow said grandkids to Texas!   
• Before I opened my business, I owned a home daycare and worked as a preschool teacher before that!
• Disneyland fan from as far back as I can remember!

I’m old enough to have regrets, like not having my photo taken with my kids! Don’t be like me!

Most of all, the two reasons that I do this amazing job – one is my passion to get mamas in photos with their kids! The second is keeping my inner child alive by playing with your kiddos! Nothing energizes me more than a fun session with littles!

As your photographer, my goal is for you to fall head-over-heels in love with your photos, and that they may forever remind you of the beauty and blessing of family. I feel so blessed to have been chosen by so many families to create that experience!

xoxo Denise

FAMILY…

WHERE LIFE BEGINS 

AND LOVE NEVER ENDS

PERSONAL NOTE: IF I COULD TELL EVERY NEW PARENT A FEW THINGS THIS IS WHAT I WOULD WANT THEM TO KNOW….

• Everyone says time passes so quickly. It really does go so quickly and you can’t do it over so do it well! Have fun with your kids! Play games, laugh with them, make messes with them, tear the couch apart and make a fort, throw water balloons, and run in the sprinklers! I was so worried about the wrong things when my kids were little and I missed out on these things. I’m getting to do it all now with my grandson and that’s a gift! We do all the things I mentioned above and more! And the house still gets cleaned and he’s still gets fed and his homework is done – and I am so much happier not sweating the small stuff!
• Get in the photos with your kids! I’m not saying this as a photographer but as a mom who now has regrets, thinking I was too fat or had no makeup on, my hair wasn’t done or some other lame excuse to not be in pictures with my kids. My kids are grown and there are very few photos of me with my kids. I am so sad that I let myself do that – not just because I don’t have them but they won’t have them when I’m gone. I take selfies with my grandson and husband we take lots of silly photos, fun photos, and serious photos. I had the photos above taken of us with our grandson Cody at Disneyland because that’s something we do with him and it’s a place we make memories. I know he will cherish those photos when we are gone as much as I do now!
• Print your photos! Ok, now I’m talking from a photographer/mom stance! Since my grandson was born I have taken thousands of pictures of him – yikes! They are all on hard drives – some of which have failed and I have no idea what part of his life I lost because it’s all such a mess! When my kids were little we only had film, we developed our photos and we either put them in books, put them out in frames, or stuck them in boxes. But we can go through them and hold them and remember things like a favorite stuffed animal or a trip to Sea World because it’s in all the photos from that year. It was so much easier to organize the photos that were a physical item. Toss what I didn’t want in the trash and keep the good ones. Now there are folders on our computer, photos on our phones, and discs and flash drives in drawers. All of these digital storage devices WILL fail you can never get those images back. Printed photos can always be scanned and other digitally made prints don’t fail! So I encourage you to print your photos! A great way is to make a photo book or album! My kids and grandson along with friends will pick up my books and go through them and they enjoy seeing our family and how we have changed over the years. Ask me about prints, books, and Folio boxes, all are beautiful ways to preserve those memories!