Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig jdhphotography.com. NS
Answer
jdhphotography.com. 5 NS ns-969.awsdns-57.net.
jdhphotography.com. 5 NS ns-759.awsdns-30.net.
jdhphotography.com. 5 NS ns-595.awsdns-10.net.
jdhphotography.com. 5 NS ns-1166.awsdns-17.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0