take a look around

About Contact Newsletter Shop

Sure, I love a dress but I'm happiest in a bathing suit. Get me in all the bodies of water.

Photo by @annaroeschphoto that she made of me during our #longformsession this May.

Just over here trying to honor the ordinary.

These photos were from a trip to North Carolina earlier this summer, but I'll use them to remind you that sessions in Washington DC, Northern Virginia and Maryland are booking up for October. Link in prof

Home has a way of becoming invisible.

The parts of life that are easiest to overlook are so often the ones we'll miss the most.

I photograph families at home, on film. I hope I help them notice the beauty in the lives they are already living.

My O

Swimming and bikes rides and seafood and books and porches and so many handstands and quite a few figs and riding in the back of a pickup truck across the beach.

Back home after a month at the ocean.

I like most parts of being a parent to big kids.

But the thing I like the least is how often we are all together.

A portrait from a week with all five of my kids under the same roof.

Newborn sessions aren't as much about the newborns as they are about becoming.

Becoming a mother, a parent, a family.

Becoming something so ordinary and so life changing.

Scenes from a summer day.
They might be fleeting but each one sure can hold so much.

From a #longformsession with @alilatimerphotography

I'll be back in Colorado at the end of next month. If you're interested in a session, I've got a spot for you.

on Instagram: @rachel.larsen.weaver

©2025 RACHEL LARSEN WEAVER

Rachel Larsen Weaver documents raw, unposed family storytelling and body-affirmative portraiture exclusively on 35mm and medium format film. Based on the Maryland coast, she travels regularly for intimate domestic sessions throughout the DMV, frequenting distinct neighborhood pockets like Capitol Hill, Petworth, Takoma Park, and Arlington.

Washington DC family photographer, Washington DC newborn photographer, Washington DC maternity photographer, Baltimore newborn photographer, Maryland family photographer, Northern Virginia family and newborn photographer