We're Moving!!! | Kansas City Lifestyle & Pinup Photographer

We are moving this month! Our new address will be:

1144 NW Vivion Rd

Kansas City, MO 64118

To Celebrate our Move, we wanted to extend a special offer to you! 

25% off ALL of our sessions!

That includes any of the sessions posted under the "investment" tab on this website (including Foxy Pinups, Creative Lifestyle Sessions or Wedding Packages!) Your session doesn't have to be scheduled for the month of April to receive the discount, just purchased this month during our move. Share our sale information with two friends that book with us, save an additional 25% off your session fee (Half Off Session for you!)

Sale Ends on April 30th!

Questions? Visit our contact page, email hilary@hilaryhopephoto.com or call 708.498.HOPE!

Happy Birthday, Amanda! | Kansas City Pinup Hairstylist

Happy Birthday, Amanda!! We LOVE you!!

In honor of our beautiful hairstylist's birthday today, we're giving out gifts to you guys to celebrate! How great is that? It's Amanda's birthday and we're giving YOU gifts!! How do you enter? Tell Amanda Happy Birthday on our Facebook Page or this Blog of course!!! :D I'll post pictures of all the gifts we're giving away throughout the day! Keep checking back to see more gifts! ♥ And if you have something great to say about the Amazing Amanda Adams, Share the love!! Our drawing will take place tonight! Some lucky ladies and gents will win the gifts below...

Our Amanda Themed Gifts to You!!!

First Gift Giveaway Post:

2 lucky ladies will receive $35 gift cards today to use with Amanda at the beautiful Stem Hair and Body Salon! Thats where Amanda works full time. On top of stylin' all our beautiful pinup girls, she's my personal hairstylist too! <3




Second Gift Giveway Post:

If you know Amanda, you know that she always has the prettiest kitten necklace hanging from around her neck. It's a heart and inside it, a kitten sits adorably with a gem in it's collar. So, I thought for this next giveaway gift, why not get a kitten for another to wear? One that is just as sweet as the one Amanda wears. Check out this fun kitten necklace from the fantastic Donna's Dress Shop! A lucky person out there who wished Amanda a happy birthday will win this adorably unique gift today!

Third Giveaway Post:

Amanda LOVES dresses! It's true and something that I happen to love about Amanda (I'm in love with dresses too!) Well, for our next giveaway gift, one lucky gal will win a $50 gift card from Retro Vixen to buy their own beautiful dress today! Thanks to everyone who has wished Amanda a Happy Birthday so far!! ♥

Our Final Giveaway Post:

For our final gift to you on our hairstylist's birthday...you may have already guessed it! We are giving away a Limited Edition Pinup Session in honor of our lovely Amanda! The session you could win is outlined in the "Be Some Bunny for your Hunny" photo above! :D

T-minus 15 minutes to get your "happy 

birthdays" in until we start our drawing!!!

1st Post | Kansas City Photographer | Hilary Hope Photography

Hello great big internet world! It's me, Hilary! I'm so happy to be here. :)


It's my first blog post on the Hilary Hope Photography blog and I couldn't be more happy to share it with you. In honor of our amazing blog launch, I'm doing something special! An amazing 30% off coupon code which you can use on either a session or photo order. Here is a little bit more about that deal:

I'm so excited about having a photography blog! I know-that sounds really nerdy-but I am totally stoked! I can't wait to upload sneak peaks of all my photo sessions here. It's going to be fantastic. Well, aside from my excitement, and because this is my first blog post, I think I will tell you a little bit about me! 


My full name is Hilary Hope Bloomquist.  I'm 23 and am deeply in love with my husband, Alan and my amazing floppy-eared basset hound, Harley! I'm the oldest of four kids and am extremely passionate in absolutely everything I do. I love being with people and butter pecan ice cream, and playing my guitar on Sunday afternoons.


Alan, Harley and I moved to Kansas City about 2 months ago, and we are loving it! We set up shop here in Dutch Hill/Longfellow-a fantastic neighborhood in downtown Kansas City next to the Crown Center. I love waking up to the sounds of the city. I think that might have to do with me being a Chicago native. (Go Hawks!-I'm a huge hockey fan). 


I love dresses and am a huge endorser of vintage styles. You may have gathered that from the HHP pinup gallery, but incase you didn't, I would have loved to have been around in the 40's & 50's. Something about it seems so cinematic to me. I am so pleased to bring a little slice of that glamour to my pinup clients-who also happen to be the most beautiful girls in the world!

I don't think it's possible for me to love photography any more than I do, but every day I find myself falling more in love with the amazingness of recording life in photographs. My favorite thing to shoot (besides weddings, pinups and all the wonderful life moments of my fantastic clients) is my little sister, Madalyn. She was my first model at age 0, and I just love her to pieces! She also does a magnificent "blue steel"...haha. 

A lot of people tell me when they first meet me that they feel like they've known me forever. I'm not sure why that is, but I thought it might be worth mentioning. My mom tells me all the time how I have "an old soul." That's a pretty great compliment from my mom I think-but it also would probably explain why everyone has thought I've been 25 for the past ten years, haha. 


That's a good chunk about myself. I'm not really used to writing exclusively about me, but since this is the first post and you might not know me yet, I figure this is a good start! I can't wait to get to know you better.


Lots of Love,


h i l a r y  h o p e