Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig laurynmoorephotography.com. NS
Answer
laurynmoorephotography.com. 5 NS ns-527.awsdns-01.net.
laurynmoorephotography.com. 5 NS ns-1849.awsdns-39.co.uk.
laurynmoorephotography.com. 5 NS ns-1147.awsdns-15.org.
laurynmoorephotography.com. 5 NS ns-1064.awsdns-05.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0