Michaela H Photography

If you want photos that feel like this… 🤍🌊

The wind on the Oregon Coast.
The groom crying when he sees his bride.
The champagne tower.
Cutting the cake with a family sword.
That just married joy with the ocean behind you.

Your wedding isn’t just a timeline — it’s legacy.

When you hire me, you’re getting more than pretty portraits. You’re getting someone who notices the tear before it falls, the hand squeeze from mom, the deep breath after “I do.”

I capture the real, the emotional, and the in-between — so you can relive it forever.

If you’re planning an Oregon Coast wedding (or anywhere your love feels big), I’d be honored to tell your story. 🤍

For the next month, I’m intentionally highlighting photographers whose work centers immigrant life, identity, and lived experience — stories that deserve space, visibility, and respect. (First image is mine and second photo is by Dorothea Lange)

“Sometimes I tell my children that I would like to go to Mexico, but they tell me, ‘We don’t want to go — we belong here.’”

This photograph was made in 1935 by Dorothea Lange, during a period when thousands of Mexican and Mexican American families were forcibly repatriated from the United States — many of them U.S. citizens.

Lange’s work during the Great Depression focused on people pushed to the margins by economic collapse, racism, and government policy. While she is often remembered for Migrant Mother, her broader mission was deeply rooted in social justice: to show how policy decisions land on real bodies, real families, and real lives.

This image captures a Mexican mother in California navigating labor exploitation, displacement, and the impossible tension between homeland and belonging. Her children’s words cut through time — a reminder that immigrant identity is not just about where you come from, but where you are allowed to belong.

Lange believed photography could be a tool for change. She photographed with empathy, intention, and the belief that visibility could create accountability.

This work matters because these stories are not past — they echo forward. View more work at https://sam.nmartmuseum.org/objects/10359/mexican-mother-in-california-sometimes-i-tell-my-children

Abigail & Chloe 🌿
A love story straight out of Pride & Prejudice—if Elizabeth Bennet fell in love in a cottage garden with her future wife. Soft glances, winding paths, and that quiet kind of romance that feels timeless.

Their engagement session at Lakewold Gardens was pure cottagecore magic, and getting to witness and capture their love was an absolute honor. 🤍