Bespoke Fine Art Portraiture

Clare Ahalt Photography is a fine art portrait photographer located in Maryland. She creates custom fine art portraiture of children, pets, families and high school seniors and serves clientele in the Maryland, Washington DC, and Northern Virginia areas, including the Montgomery County areas of Potomac, MD, Bethesda, MD, Loudon County area of Leesburg, VA, the Northern Virginia area of Mclean VA, and Frederick County areas, including Frederick MD, Middletown MD, Walkersville MD and Urbana MD.

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Photograph of the Day 16/365 Junior Prom | Middletown MD Senior Portraits

May 01, 2016 by Clare Ahalt in Middletown MD Photographe, Child Portrait Photograph, Child Photographer, frederick md photographer, Maryland Photographer

I hope these two had fun over at junior prom last night in Middletown MD! I got to take a few photographs (in the thankfully light rain) before they headed off.

Photograph of the Day 10/365 Magical Light | Child Photographer Frederick MD

April 23, 2016 by Clare Ahalt in Middletown MD Photographe, Maryland Photographer, frederick md photographer, Child Portrait Photograph, Child Photographer

The light in downtown Frederick, MD at Baker Park was the perfect, magical, backdrop to photograph my daughter against. The blossoms were amazing, and the light just simply beautiful. There were children playing on the playground close by and, even though she was wearing her beautiful dress, my daughter is a normal child and was itching to run and play. This made for a super fast set of portrait photographs, her pulling her dress off right in front of the bell tower, putting her shirt and on and running like a mad child to play with the other children on the playground before the sunset.

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Photograph of the Day 8/365 | Photographer Frederick MD

April 20, 2016 by Clare Ahalt in Child Photographer, Child Portrait Photograph, frederick md photographer, Maryland Photographer

This portrait is of my daughter and our elderly dog, Muffin who is a samoyed and will be 14 this year. Muffin is a trooper and is still patrolling our farm, we are lucky that my husband is a veterinarian over at Jefferson Veterinary Hospital, and hope that he can keep her going forever.

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Photography 7/365 | Frederick MD

April 19, 2016 by Clare Ahalt in Child Photographer, Child Portrait Photograph, frederick md photographer, Maryland Photographer, middletown MD photographe

This photograph epitomizes how I hope that my daughter remembers her childhood. Riding around exploring on her pony.

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Photograph of the Day 5/365 | Maryland Photographer

April 17, 2016 by Clare Ahalt in Middletown MD Photographe, middletown MD photographe, Maryland Photographer, frederick md photographer, Child Portrait Photograph, Child Photographer

This is a little different to my usual portraits and is a pet portrait of a dog of one the veterinary technicians' dogs over at my husband's animal hospital, Jefferson Veterinary Hospital. She is an Australian Shepherd, commonly referred to as an Aussie and was so sweet and soft.

Photograph of the Day 4/365 Baseball at Frederick National Little League | Frederick MD Photographer

April 16, 2016 by Clare Ahalt in Child Photographer, Child Portrait Photograph, frederick md photographer, Maryland Photographer, middletown MD photographe, Middletown MD Photographe

Another photograph of another fun baseball game with Frederick National Little League in downtown Frederick at Staley Field. My son is loving these games.

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Photograph of the Day 1/365 | Photographer Frederick Maryland

April 13, 2016 by Clare Ahalt in Middletown MD Photographe, middletown MD photographe, Maryland Photographer, frederick md photographer, Child Portrait Photograph, Child Photographer

I've decided to task myself with the task of posting a photograph a day. I'm being forgiving on myself, it doesn't have to be something that I took that day, although that would be nice :D I took this photograph earlier this spring down at the cherry blossoms along the tidal basin in Washington DC.

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Click Pro / CM Pro Acceptance Announcement | Frederick Maryland Photographer

April 03, 2016 by Clare Ahalt in Child Photographer, Child Portrait Photograph, frederick md photographer, Maryland Photographer, middletown MD photographe, Middletown MD Photographe

My accepted submission for Click Pro/Cm Pro. The 150 images are sorted by season and colour. They are a mix of client high school senior portraits, child portraits, photographs of my daughter and son, pictures of our trips to Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, England, France and Spain. The vast majority of pictures were taken in Frederick, Maryland, with a few taken in Washington DC and Northern Virginia.

Middletown MD Beagles and Hunt Club | Frederick MD Photographer

March 31, 2016 by Clare Ahalt in Middletown MD Photographe, Maryland Photographer, frederick md photographer, Child Portrait Photograph, Child Photographer

Photographs taken over in beautiful Middletown, MD.

National Puppy Day! | Frederick Maryland Pet Photographer

March 23, 2016 by Clare Ahalt in frederick md photographer, Maryland Photographer, middletown MD photographe

Happy national puppy day!! It's national puppy day - celebrate the cuteness!!!!! This also seems like the perfect day to announce that I am going to start accepting clients for pet portraiture! I focus my photography on the things that I love, and I'm not quite sure why I haven't accepted clients specifically for pet photography before ... I've been doing it on a more personal basis with my pets and include pets as part of my child and senior portrait photography experiences.

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If you are looking for a new furry family member, consider adopting from a local animal shelter or rescue!!! If you have a puppy or dog and are looking for a veterinarian, my husband is Dr. Brooks Ahalt over at Jefferson Veterinary Hospital and, not that I'm biased or anything, I think that he's pretty great!!!

Foggy Days | Frederick Maryland Photographer

March 22, 2016 by Clare Ahalt in Maryland Photographer, frederick md photographer, Child Portrait Photograph, Child Photographer, middletown MD photographe

Frederick MD Photographer captures fog with a dreamlike portrait.

Downtown Frederick MD | Maryland Photographer

March 04, 2016 by Clare Ahalt in Child Photographer, Child Portrait Photograph, frederick md photographer, Maryland Photographer, middletown MD photographe

Late last summer, I took my daughter's photographs in downtown Frederick Maryland. There is so much to see and do down there, the downtown area is really thriving and listed as one of the top ten downtown areas in the country. We settled on outside the Weinberg as the location and took a few portraits of my daughter and our new puppy. We then walked over to Brewer's Alley, just across the road on Market Street and grabbed something to eat afterwards. I love that they have seating for dogs on the terrace.

Snowy Day in March { Washington DC Photographer }

March 04, 2016 by Clare Ahalt in Maryland Photographer, Child Photographer, Child Portrait Photograph, frederick md photographer

For the past week, Washington DC has had a teaser of spring. That was all it was, as this morning the DC metropolitan area was blanketed by a cover of white snow. Somehow, I managed to get my daughter up in time to photograph her portrait on my farm in Frederick, Maryland. Nine times out of ten my photographs are bombed by an animal of some description and this time was no exception. All the unexpected snow here in Maryland led my cat to run over to us from his house and lean up against my daughter in her portrait. She loves her cats, so leant over to fuss him and I managed to get the perfect portrait of my child and her cat together!