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celebrating OU seniors and Bartlesville and Tulsa families through photography.

Hey, y’all! 

I’m Melanie, the girl behind the lens at Melanie Foster Photography. Whether you’re getting ready for your upcoming OU senior or your Bartlesville or Tulsa family photography experience, I hope you’ll stay a while, pick up a few tips, and be inspired for your own MFP photo session! 

Nursery Reveal | Colonial Home Renovation | At Home with the Russells If you missed our master bedroom reveal, you HAVE to see the before and after! This post has been sitting in my drafts for basically Ruth’s entire life. I couldn’t bring myself to share it because about a month after she was born […]

Minimal Baby Registry Essentials – 1 Year Later! Shop my dress here – perfect for a new or expectant mama! Ahhh, the baby registry. It is simultaneously so much fun and so overwhelming for first time moms! When we got pregnant, we were less than a year removed from our wedding. We went from home […]

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Newborn photos from Amy Rau Photography Best of 2021 | Melanie Foster Photography | Year End Recap Where to begin!? We’re settling into life as a family of three, making 2021 another mile-marker year in one of my favorite ways! So much about life has changed since I started these annual recap posts back in […]

Our Natural Homebirth Experience | Ruthie’s Home Birth Story | Part 2 If you haven’t read about our breech diagnosis at 36 weeks and external cephalic version experience, you’ll want to do that first! Read part 1 here!! My due date was on Sunday, November 7. I figured I’d go late, but ever since the […]

Photos: Laura Eddy Sourdough How-To | Making a Home with Melanie View my Sourdough essentials list here! We were visiting friends in Oklahoma City a few weeks after our wedding when I had homemade sourdough bread for the first time. I started asking a million questions of Dylan. How he learned, who he learned from, […]

Maternity photos from Laura Eddy Photography Ruthie’s Home Birth Story | Part 1 | External Cephalic Version – ECV Success Story Experience I’ll start this off by saying that birth stories are a funny thing. I don’t know when it became normal to type out and share such an intimate and personal experience for the […]

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