With the popularity of the digital camera, we’re all photographers. In fact, photos have become so common-place that it’s easy to forget just how much a well-crafted portrait can mean to us, how often a brush of the hand over a moment caught forever in a portrait can bring back memories…

A unique studio designed for women…
Robin Hickman Photography is a local portrait studio dedicated to capturing your story in high quality, imaginative ways that can’t be captured in a snapshot. Local photographer Robin Hickman may be best known for his $39 Baby Plan, the package of 3, 6, 9 and 12 month portraits featuring your new arrival, but this busy artist’s offerings don’t stop with teething! With popular favorites such as the Enchanted Childhood sets and Pregnancy Portraits, and fresh new sessions like the 1950 style Pin-up Glamour shots, Robin Hickman Photography focuses on women’s needs in their busy lives.
“At some point I realized that when you do a little bit of everything, it’s hard to be exceptional at anything, and I wanted to be exceptional,” Robin writes. This belief led to Robin taking a move of faith, literally. Robin streamlined his offerings, focusing on the specific desires of women and moving into a custom-built studio in 2008, a 3,200 square foot space with private dressing and bath rooms.
While Robin Hickman Photography does offer additional portrait packages and sessions, the decision to make women the heart of the studio has lead to the wildly popular Baby Plan and other portraits of mothers with their children and families.

Baby Plan
“I have over 100 babies enrolled in the Baby Plan at any given time. With so much experience, I can help create portraits that capture your baby’s personality.” A full year’s amazing portraits for only $39 has obvious appeal, but Robin has also created lasting gifts and mementos featuring these portraits to give clients variety: hand-crafted bracelets in a waterproof resin setting, music boxes, coffee table books, even a wall collage. Robin accepts a limited number of new babies each month, to ensure the individual attention and high-quality images that characterize the studio.
Even before the Baby Plan, Robin Hickman Photography has a session to pamper the mom-to-be. From brightly-covered handprints on your belly from a soon-to-be older sibling to private moments of joy in black and white, Robin Hickman Photography works with the mom-to-be to design the right mood for this once-in-two lifetimes opportunity. “A woman is never more beautiful than when she is pregnant, and I feel Robin made me beautiful, even when I had an enormous belly,” praises client Jessica Sumner.

Another distinctive aspect of the studio is its creativity in offering new and imaginative settings for clients and their families. The Enchanted Childhood sets are the embodiment of this playful attitude. From a nostalgic, old-time baseball set to a magical afternoon with Woodland Fairies to the current set, an old West Cowboy Bath-time, each set is interactive and charming, bringing out natural curiosity and wonder for children, and making for unforgettable portraits of kids of all ages.

Pin-up
The studio’s newest product evokes the mischievous sexiness of the 1950s pin-up girl. Multiple sets, from library to doctor’s office, set the stage for any woman with a sparkle in her eye to kick up her kitten heels for a bit of fun. Most recently, Robin Hickman Photography was at the Women’s Expo, where clients strapped on roller skates and poodle skirts for portraits on the hand-built 1950s Robin’s Diner set. While individual portraits are available, the most popular product has been the pin-up calendar, a collection of 12 unique images in a 1950s calendar format. The 2012 calendar sessions are already filling up. Robin promises that the calendars will be done the Christmas prior to their respective year, so if you are looking for a Christmas gift that will never be forgotten, you’ll want to grab a spot while they are still available.

“The first five callers to mention this article and book a pin-up session will receive a glamour session and an 8×10 for only $49” adds Robin. “And the first five callers for a family or child set will get their session and one to six images in a custom-designed wood calendar frame, for $159. That’s over 50%  savings for each product!”

Robin Hickman Photography can be reached at 406-585-7338. Check out their website: robinhickmanphotography.com and page on Facebook.