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We are a mother-daughter team tucked in the heart of rural illinois. though we are located in rural illinois we always love photographing new places and new people. so grab a dessert and coffee (or tea in our case) and take a look around at the moments we have captured. we are so glad you are here, make yourself at home!

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Rachel & Jason’s June wedding was beautiful and we are so excited to be sharing their wedding with you all today! Rachel & her mom found us when we photographed Rachel’s cousin’s wedding a few years ago. (Andrew & Kelsey, who’s wedding is still one of our very favorites!) We always love it when new […]

June 27, 2019


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I have had the privilege of getting to know Riley this year as we did her senior sessions. We did a fall and winter session, both of which I LOVED! Then Riley reached out about doing a grad session with her group of friends and I couldn’t have loved the idea more! It was so […]

June 26, 2019


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Even though Miss Tinley wasn’t super excited about getting her picture taken, I must say she is still super cute! We love when families come back to us and let us continue to capture their memories. We are thankful for the Schullian family, their friendship and that we get to photograph their cute kiddos as […]

June 26, 2019


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One of the first things to decide on when scheduling your senior session is what season you want. There is no “wrong” season, and if you ask me they are all awesome. I love all the seasons! Now I could handle winter being just a bit shorter but that is a whole different story for […]

June 24, 2019


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It’s always fun when we get to grow with our clients. A couple years back we got to photograph Shelby & Jordan’s wedding and now we get to photograph their beautiful daughter Laundry. We headed out to the farm to capture this beautiful girl’s 6 month photos a few weeks back and it was so […]

June 24, 2019


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Happy Tuesday, friends! We are so excited to be sharing Mallary and Sean’s engagement session with you all today. These two were SO much fun to work with, and talk about photogenic! AHH! They seriously were awesome. Mallary’s one request for locations was a more natural setting, and so we set out to find the […]

June 18, 2019


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Happy Tuesday, friends! We hope you all are having a great start to your week! If you have been following us for a while you know that Tuesdays are usually wedding blog day, but since we had the weekend off we thought what better thing to share instead than this gorgeous couple’s engagement session! From […]

June 11, 2019


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We are so incredibly excited to be sharing Colter & Morgan’s wedding blog with you! We were blessed with the most gorgeous weather, that was completely unexpected! Rain had been in the forecast ALL week (imagine that right?!?!) and so the blue skies and sunshine were the perfect surprise. There truly was SO much that […]

June 5, 2019


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Samantha & Jordan got married on Jordan’s family farm on a rainy (imagine that, this crazy spring weather) Saturday this spring. The ceremony took place in a barn on the property and the second Samantha got in the barn to walk down the aisle the rain just came POURING down. She made it JUST in […]

May 29, 2019


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Earlier this month we got to meet our awesome group of Team Twenty Spokesmodels. We met up at Taylor Hall in Macomb where each of the girls got their welcome gifts. We just love to spoil our girls and so of course the Kickoff Event was no exception! Next they got the chance to met […]

May 25, 2019


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