2018 Favorite Portraits There is a second branch to Amanda May Photos, and that is portrait photography. Portrait photography includes seniors, families, newborns, maternities, birthdays, headshots, fundraisers, anniversaries, and more. It’s pretty much anything I shoot that is not a wedding or an engagement, which are the main purpose of AMP. Sometimes, it means shooting […]

UT Medical Center Fresh 48 The Burton family just welcomed their third little girl to the family. They had her at UT Medical Center last Wednesday. By the time I was shooting these pictures on Thursday, big sisters were already smitten, mom was getting around like a CHAMP, dad was soothing little Avenly to sleep, […]

Chattanooga Newborn Session On Labor Day weekend, Dustin, Grayson and I took a trip south for a Chattanooga newborn session. It was on Labor Day so Dustin had the day off of work, and I thought it would serve as a GREAT excuse to take Grayson to the Chattanooga Aquarium. This super sweet family lives […]

Knoxville Newborn Session Baby Norah was due on June 2nd but ended up coming a few weeks early. She had a head full of thick brown hair and is absolutely beautiful. I joined the Sandy family at their house in South Knoxville. As I drove through a part of town I am not that familiar […]

Newborn Studio Oh, you guys. I am so excited to share this sweet, precious newborn studio session with you! Dustin and I have known the McElroys for a couple of years now. They were a part of our very first small group, and I’ll never forget how welcoming Emily made me feel. Within the first […]

Newborn Photographs Sweet baby Cooper was a very high maintenance baby in the womb. Not that it was his fault really, but in this pregnancy, Tiffany, a.k.a. mom, was on bed rest for majority of the pregnancy. It was really early on that she had contractions that the hospital gave her medicine to stop as […]

Studio Newborn Photos This sweet precious little boy belongs to Angel and Drew Sims. Who I had the absolute pleasure of documenting as they said “I do” to one another at the Capitol Theatre a couple summers ago. They recently welcomed Elijah Sims into their family almost 6 weeks earlier than he should have come. […]

2017 Favorite Portraits 2017 brought so many amazing, exciting opportunities. I got to take some 2017 favorite portraits in the Smoky Mountains, at the Grand Tetons just outside of Jackson Hole, of a big sister meeting her baby brother for the very first time, over 14 newborn sessions, 2 proposals, in the snow, in the […]

Unicorn Newborn Session I was walking the aisles in Target right before Christmas, because lets face it, that place is on every single girls’ Christmas to do list, when I spotted this amazingly adorable crocheted unicorn newborn hat. The day before, Whitley had told me that she was being induced even earlier than originally planned […]

Newborn Girl This sweet little newborn girl is named Selah Mae. In case you’re wondering, Selah is pronounced “say-luh”. Does this word ring a bell with any of you? Are you wondering where these incredible parents got it from? It’s from the Bible. But its unique in that it’s not a person in the Bible, […]

Amanda May Photos Studio Wait… what? Amanda May Photos has a studio now? Well, not really. It’s just my house. But if you haven’t been here in the last year, you don’t know that I have converted the front “formal” living space to my office/studio. It’s the room you walk into from the front door. […]

Baby Boy Newborn Photos If you’ve been following me recently, you’ve noticed that ALL of my newborns have been girls. I was starting to think I was the only one in Knoxville that had a boy this year (exaggeration intended), until this little fella came along. James Farrell Gilliam. He was just the sweetest during […]

Newborn Photo Session Little Hannah Lloyd is the daughter of two amazing parents who serve in the Air Force. One of which I went to high school with. It’s normal for mommas to have to feed their little baby in the middle of the newborn photo session. But this time when Lauren took Hannah to […]

LB Floral If you have ever looked for a wedding florist, you have probably come across LB Floral. LB Floral is owned by Lesley Britt and she is a fantastic florist in the Knoxville area. She welcomed her sweet little girl, Lilly Rose (what an appropriate name for a florist’s daughter amiright?!) into this world […]

Newborn Photos I got to photograph James and Kaitlyn’s wedding a couple years ago in Tullahoma, TN. When they contacted me to take newborn pictures of their precious Ellie Kate, I of course jumped at the opportunity. Like I’ve said on here many times, one of my favorite things is documenting my couples’ lives, not […]