Bar Harbor & Acadia InstaSessions & Portrait Photography
Your Maine Moments. Beautifully Captured. Instantly Yours.
InstaSessions are photographer-guided portrait experiences using your smartphone—giving you professionally composed photos on your own phone, ready to enjoy and share right away.
Bar Harbor & Acadia InstaSessions
Your phone. Your photos — instantly.
A fresh, value-priced way to capture your Maine vacation. InstaSessions combine your smartphone with my professional eye for posing, composition and direction—creating natural photographs of you, your family or your group in beautiful Bar Harbor, Acadia and Mount Desert Island settings.
Simply hand over your phone for your personal photographer to capture your vacation photos and enjoy the experience. When your session ends, approximately 30 minutes later, your photos are already with you—ready to view, share, edit and print your way.
Props, pets and ideas are welcome.
InstaSessions begin at $195, depending on group size and location.
Ready to get everyone in the picture?
Email me with the date, time, location, and occasion of your InstaSession inquiry.
Professional Portrait Photography in Bar Harbor & Downeast Maine
Morning Light Portrait Experiences
Make your time in Maine part of your family's story. Morning Light sessions use Maine's softer morning light to create natural, flattering portraits in beautiful Downeast Maine settings.
I'll photograph your session with a professional camera, then personally select and individually edit the strongest images to create your finished collection. Your private gallery is available for 30 days, with watermarked digital files included for easy personal sharing.
Every package also includes professional heirloom prints and a complimentary print consultation. After you've had time to enjoy your gallery, we'll choose a favorite photograph together and talk about the sizes, prints, framing, wall art or gifts that best fit your home and how you'd like to enjoy your photographs for years to come.
Most portrait sessions are approximately 30 minutes. Larger groups may take up to 60 minutes.
Morning Light Portrait Packages
Classic Morning Light — $650
Up to 5 people • 12 individually edited photographs • 30-day private gallery • Watermarked sharing files
Includes one professional 8×10 heirloom print of your favorite photograph + complimentary print consultation.
Group Morning Light — $950
Up to 10 people • 20 individually edited photographs • 30-day private gallery • Watermarked sharing files
Includes one professional 8×10 + two 5×7 heirloom prints of your favorite photograph + complimentary print consultation.
The Total Maine Experience — $1,695
Up to 20 people • 30 individually edited photographs • 30-day private gallery • Professional camera + smartphone photography
The complete Maine portrait experience. Along with your professional portraits, I'll capture photographs on up to two of your smartphones, giving you an instant preview of the experience and photos that are yours to enjoy and share right away.
Includes one professional 11×14 + two 8×10 + two 5×7 heirloom prints of your favorite photograph + complimentary print consultation.
Heirloom Portraits
Your portraits are meant to be enjoyed beyond the screen. Professional prints and heirloom collections are available following your session, with options selected to complement your photographs and your space.
Framed Portraits • Gallery-Wrapped Canvas • Framed Canvas • Standouts • Custom Wall Collections
Need help choosing? I can help you select the right images, sizes and display options for your home.
Interested in a Morning Light Portrait Experience?
Email me with the date, time, location, and occasion of your professional portrait inquiry.
Meet Your Photographer
Somehow, I get to call this work.
I'm Katie Dobies—a former flight attendant, lifelong traveler and photographer originally from Saratoga Springs and New York's Capital Region. I've traveled through 49 states and internationally, lived in Arizona, worked in Yellowstone National Park and spent years exploring and photographing America's national parks.
Of all the places I've experienced, Downeast Maine is the place I chose to call home—and it has become my muse. The water, rugged coastline, fog, weather and constantly changing light mean the same place never looks quite the same twice.
My photography career has taken me from senior photographer for Saratoga Living to licensing my travel, nature and lifestyle photography worldwide through iStock/Getty Images, Adobe Stock, Alamy, Deposit Photos and eventually creating Stock Photo Queen, my independent library of authentic, human-made photography.
That experience is what I bring to your portrait session. You don't need to know how to pose. I'll guide you, keep things fun and relaxed while paying attention to the light, landscape and natural moments happening in between.
My work also includes Ethical Imagery, created to support authenticity and transparency in an AI-generated world, and Peaceful Wall Art, my fine-art photography inspired by Maine, America's national parks and my travels.
Whatever I'm photographing, the mission is the same: to show people themselves and the beauty of the world.
In Peace,
