Senior Portraits, Maternity, Weddings, Families: How to Find the Right Label for You
People often arrive here in the middle of something.
A pregnancy. An engagement. A senior year. A family season that suddenly feels worth holding onto. Sometimes they know exactly what they need. Sometimes they only know that time is moving and they do not want this part of life to disappear into a phone.
That is why I Make Time Machines exists.
But the actual photography work happens through a small set of specialized labels, each built for a different kind of life season.
The philosophy is shared.
The form changes.
A maternity session is not a wedding. A senior portrait experience is not a family session. A newborn album should not feel like an editorial senior shoot. A wedding day needs a different kind of attention than a quiet portrait of a child with their grandparents.
Different moments ask for different rooms in the same house.
This is how to find the right one.
How This Works
I Make Time Machines is the umbrella.
It holds the philosophy: photographs should become physical things that can be seen, held, lived with, and passed on.
The labels beneath it are where the sessions happen.
Each one has its own voice, visual language, and client experience. They share the same belief in printed photographs, albums, wall art, careful curation, and work that has a life beyond the scroll.
The four labels are:
- Bump Baby Photos for maternity, newborn, and early parenthood
- Salt + Lime for weddings and couples
- Island Coast Photography for families and children
- House of Palms for senior portraits
The simplest way to choose is to start with the season you are in.
Not the product.
Not the package.
The season.
What is changing? What is becoming? What will not look like this for long?
That is usually where the right label becomes obvious.
If You Are Pregnant — Bump Baby Photos
Pregnancy is strange because it is both ordinary and impossible.
People have babies every day. And still, when it is your body, your child, your life changing shape in real time, it is not ordinary at all.
Bump Baby Photos is built for maternity, newborn, and early parenthood. It is for the season when everything is becoming: the body, the room, the family, the future.
The work can be soft, editorial, minimal, romantic, natural, or more styled depending on the person in front of the camera. But the point is always the same: to make photographs that help you remember the threshold.
Before the baby was here.
When the baby was new.
When the family had just become something it had never been before.
This label is usually the right fit if you are expecting, recently delivered, planning newborn photographs, or trying to document the first year before it becomes a blur.
The final form often matters deeply here. Albums, framed portraits, and keepsake prints become part of the child’s earliest visible history. One day, the baby in those photographs will not remember any of this.
But they may still be able to see that they were loved before memory began.
If You Are Getting Married — Salt + Lime
A wedding is not a styled shoot with vows attached.
It is a living day. Beautiful, chaotic, emotional, funny, loud, sacred, absurd, tender, and gone almost immediately.
Salt + Lime is for weddings and couples. It is built around documentary attention with editorial portraits where the day deserves to become art.
That means the photographs do not try to clean the day into something fake. They hold the real movement of it: the people, the weather, the nerves, the tiny disasters, the strange beauty of everyone you love being in one place at one time.
Then, when the moment calls for it, the work steps in and makes something intentional.
Not stiff.
Not generic.
Not “stand over there and look in love.”
The main subject is love, but not love as a performance. Love as something that happens while people are moving, laughing, crying, sweating, dancing, waiting, drinking water in a hallway, or looking at each other like they forgot anyone else was there.
This label is the right fit if you are planning a wedding, elopement, engagement, anniversary, or couple session that needs to feel alive rather than manufactured.
The album is especially important here because a wedding is not one photograph.
It is a day.
A day needs sequence.
If You Have a Family to Document — Island Coast Photography
Family photographs do not have to feel like everyone was bribed into matching shirts and emotional compliance.
Some families want something more alive than that.
Island Coast Photography is for families, children, grandparents, reunions, and the strange, beautiful business of belonging to each other.
This is the right fit if you want family photographs that still feel like your family. Not perfect. Not stiff. Not dressed as someone else’s Pinterest board. Directed enough to be beautiful. Loose enough to be true.
For children, the work can become more imaginative: little worlds, missions, games, costumes, props, maps, beaches, fields, backdrops, light, and play. The portrait happens because the child is inside an experience, not because they were told to smile until everyone gave up.
For families, the goal is often twofold.
One image for the wall.
Many images for the album.
The wall piece becomes the icon of the season. The album holds the living parts: the movement, the expressions, the chaos, the small proofs that this is what it felt like to belong to each other right now.
This label is the right fit for young families, older families, chosen families, reunions, grandparents, and anyone who wants photographs that feel less like a chore and more like evidence.
If You Have a Senior in the House — House of Palms
Senior portraits are not just school pictures with better clothes.
They mark a threshold.
A person is still someone’s child, but not only that anymore. They are becoming more visible to themselves. Their taste is forming. Their face is changing. Their future is suddenly close enough that everyone in the house can feel it.
House of Palms is for editorial senior portraits in Southwest Florida.
The work is planned, styled, and shaped with intention. Wardrobe matters. Location matters. Hair and makeup can matter. The pacing matters. The difference between “we got senior photos” and “we did this right” is usually preparation.
This label is the right fit if you want senior portraits that feel personal, artful, and more elevated than the standard yearbook obligation.
House of Palms is especially for seniors who want the experience to feel creative, and for parents who understand that this year deserves more than a few files that get posted once and vanish.
The photographs should feel like this person, at this age, in this brief final chapter before everything changes.
Art becomes you.
That is the point.
A Note on the Lifecycle
These labels are separate because the experiences need to be separate.
But life is not separate.
A couple photographed by Salt + Lime may later come to Bump Baby Photos. A baby photographed there may grow into a child photographed by Island Coast Photography. That child may eventually become a senior at House of Palms. Years later, the cycle keeps going.
That is not a marketing funnel.
It is a family archive.
The work changes as life changes, but the underlying question stays the same:
What do you want to be able to return to later?
That is the reason for all of it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which label should I choose?
Choose based on the life season you are documenting. Bump Baby Photos is for maternity and newborn. Salt + Lime is for weddings and couples. Island Coast Photography is for families and children. House of Palms is for senior portraits.
Are these separate businesses?
They are separate labels under the larger I Make Time Machines philosophy. Each one has its own focus and client experience, but they share the same print-first belief and product standards.
What if my session could fit more than one label?
Some sessions overlap. A maternity session with the whole family may touch both Bump Baby Photos and Island Coast Photography. An engagement session belongs naturally to Salt + Lime, but a more editorial portrait session may share language with House of Palms. Start with the main reason for the session and choose from there.
Do all labels offer printed products?
Yes. The specific products and recommendations may vary, but the larger philosophy is shared: photographs should become physical objects when they matter enough to last.
Where should I start?
Start with the season you are in right now. Then choose the label built for that season.