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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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Meet Kylie, a Central High Senior. This girl is a trooper! I’m not gonna sugar coat it, her senior session was COLD! It was SO windy and cloudy and just plain cold. She didn’t complain once, even though I’m pretty sure I asked her a million times if she was freezing and needed a break. […]

October 22, 2019


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Meet, Emily, a senior at Southeastern with a passion for hunting and the outdoors. We had so much fun incorporating some of Emily’s favorite things into her senior session, hunting, four wheelers and of course her adorable labradoddle. He was SOOO well behaved and sat perfectly for the photos. It probably helped that he got […]

October 22, 2019


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Meet, Hayley, a Macomb High 2020 senior. Hayley is a natural in front of the camera and sure made our job easy! Her session was so much fun, with even more added fun at the end when we got to meet her sweet pups. They did so well for her photos and Hayley’s mom had […]

October 19, 2019


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Meet Kami, a Hamilton High Senior. We actually met Kami and her family several years ago when we did family photos for them, then we reconnected a couple years ago for her brother, Alex’s senior session and here we are now doing Kami’s senior session. We loved their addition of fun with the use of […]

October 16, 2019


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Meet, Taylor, an Illini West Senior. We had originally planned to do her session in Quincy, but the weather had other ideas. When the rain caused us to reschedule we ended up doing her session in Macomb, but we have plenty of favorite places around here that made her session just as FUN! We are […]

October 15, 2019


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Meet Hannah, a Liberty High senior who we had the pleasure of meeting at her family farm for her senior session. Hannah has a love for showing cattle and so of course we said YES when Hannah asked if we could do her senior session on their family farm. We spent the evening adventuring around […]

October 9, 2019


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Meet, Maddie a 2020 Creative Touch Spokesmodel and Southeastern High Senior. We knew just how perfect Maddie would be for our spokesmodel team when on her application she talked about just how much she loved taking pictures. Talk about a perfect match for our team! Maddie was SO much fun to photograph, I mean seriously […]

October 6, 2019


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Donovan is a senior at Illini West High School, is on the football team and president of student council. We had a great time getting to know him and his mom the evening of his session. Here are some of our favorite from his session, enjoy!

October 4, 2019


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Meet Katherine, an Illini West Senior, that we have had the joy of getting to know this year through our spokesmodel program. One of my favorite times of year is when the golden rod is blooming and it is beautiful right now!  We had the chance to use it for Katherine’s session, and we just […]

September 30, 2019


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Meet Rylie, a gorgeous 2020 senior from Southeastern High School, who also just so happens to be part of our Spokesmodel Team. Rylie’s session was one of the first ones this fall where I felt like things were starting to look just a little bit more “fall” like in the photos. (cue all the heart […]

September 29, 2019


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