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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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Breanne & Dwyer met us in Quincy for their engagement session on a BEAUTIFUL fall evening. (And I’m not just saying that because I’m sitting here trying to warm up after freezing at my session this evening, ha!) We had a great time getting to know Breanne and catching up with Dwyer all the while […]

October 12, 2019


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Kagney & Rob had a beautiful summer evening for their engagement session. It was so great to finally meet them in person and meet their awesome puppers! I mean oh my goodness don’t even get me started on how great he sat for his 5 minutes of fame! I was so impressed! These two have […]

August 14, 2019


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Erika found us by way of one of our former brides, which by the way is the highest compliment we could ever ask! (thanks, Morgan!) We just love it when our new clients come our way from our old clients and then we can all be friends! Erika & David chose to have their engagement […]

July 25, 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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Cortney really wanted spring blooms for her and Joey’s engagement session and I was all for that, because you know how much I love spring sessions! With the weather we had this spring the trees were all over the place, some blooming early and some not blooming until much later, so we were very thankful […]

May 24, 2019


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Sarah and Jonathon’s engagement session landed during the perfect time this spring; the trees were in full bloom AND the weather was perfect. And lets just be honest, lately pretty weather has been hard to come by. We were so excited to get to finally meet them as we have been corresponding with Sarah via […]

May 17, 2019


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Happy Friday, friends! It’s been a busy couple weeks around here with sessions and we are excited to be bringing you an engagement session on the blog today. It’s no secret that we have had our fair share of rain lately, and I know I’m not the only one ready for a break from it. […]

May 3, 2019


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One of my all time favorite times of the year for pictures is the short window of time that the Magnolia trees are blooming. And this year with the late April snow we got I almost lost hope that Magnolia pictures were going to get to happen this year. But thankfully they survived the snow […]

April 25, 2019


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We are happy to be bringing you guys Anna & Josiah’s engagement session today! We had so much fun getting to know these two and capturing their love story. They were so much fun and up for anything and and let’s not forget the way they look at each other, talk about adorable and a […]

April 3, 2019


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