Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig heatherlynnphotography.com. NS
Answer
heatherlynnphotography.com. 1 NS ns-541.awsdns-03.net.
heatherlynnphotography.com. 1 NS ns-87.awsdns-10.com.
heatherlynnphotography.com. 1 NS ns-505.awsdns-63.com.
heatherlynnphotography.com. 1 NS ns-656.awsdns-18.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0