Our Story
Hi there! Welcome to Lilly Lula Photography by Erin Mintmier! I am a family lifestyle photographer specializing in portrait photography and everyday moments! Here is a little bit more about me and my journey:
So how did Lilly Lula Photography come to be you might ask? Well, Lilly and Lula are actually two of my great grandmother's. I choose this name for two reasons:
1. In our family we have a running joke that when you are working hard you are in the Millikan Shuffle, hence Lilly was my great grandmother on the Millikan side.
2. Lula was my great grandmother on the Davis side and I am often told that my love for all things sparkly and any accessory comes from her.
So I hope that my desire to work hard for my clients and always make sure they pop out of the photograph comes through in my name and my photographs.
I grew up in a small town in NC and have always been the creative type. In high school I was on the yearbook staff and began my real love of photography. Fast forward through college (Go Heels!), a job planning a cross country motorcycle ride to me taking a job half way around the world in a war zone to today back in beautiful NC! I promise it isn't as crazy or scary as it sounds, haha! I worked for 5.5 years for the USO in Southwest Asia mainly living in Afghanistan and Dubai and it was there that I really picked up the camera and fell back in love with taking photos all over again!
While living abroad I also got to travel the world and reconnect with my passion of photography. I had great friends who are talented photographers and they helped me work my way up to where I am today.
Since coming back to the States my large family, there are 59 of us when we are all together, (and we still have Sunday lunch every Sunday) has allowed me to use them as my guinea pigs/models. And I finally feel like I am ready to help capture special moments for everyone else.
So here we are. I love capturing those perfect little grins, gorgeous couples, bubbly families and those all so imperfect perfect moments. Let me help capture them all for you too!