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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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Today is Graduation day for many of these girls and so what better way to celebrate than by sharing their cap and gown session with you all! I’m just gonna be honest and say that this session was COLD, like miserably cold. I’m talking, in the 40s, and these girls were all in dresses. They […]

May 19, 2019


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Today we’re talking about all the things! More specifically how to completely ROCK your senior pictures. If you are a bit nervous, you like to be prepared, or just don’t know what to expect, this Sunday Senior Tip is for YOU! We want you to know that you your senior session is just that YOURS! […]

May 7, 2019


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Last week our tip was about why you should hire a professional. (You can read that post here.) So let’s say you decided you know you want a professional, but now what? Where do you start? This blog is for YOU! It covers some great questions to think about when choosing a photographer. And honestly […]

April 29, 2019


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Yay! You made it to the blog and you are here for our very first week of ” Sunday Senior Tips.” We have been wanting to start blogging once a week with helpful tips for seniors for some time now and we thought with senior season just around the corner now was the time to […]

April 22, 2019


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Spending the evening at the softball diamond with Daytona was a great way to wrap up her senior sessions. Daytona has spent countless hours on the softball field. She puts her heart and soul into this sport.  This was Daytona’s 4th session with us this year and I don’t know what I am going to […]

April 12, 2019


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These beautiful girls came to see us for a snow session and braved the cold and inches and inches of snow. I think we were all a little frozen by the end of the session but it was totally worth it. I can’t wait for their full sessions this spring, and here’s hoping it is […]

January 21, 2019


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Winter is a slower time for us, we only do the occasional snow session and get caught up on all our planning and goal setting for the year. And though the snow came MUCH earlier than it does some years and we didn’t have much of a “break” before starting in on the snow sessions […]

December 8, 2018


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I just can’t get enough of Daytona’s snow session. It might be the fact that the snow was covering the trees beautifully, her awesome red lipstick or the fact that it actually snowed during part of her session! It was just perfect! We’ve done, summer, fall and now snow with Daytona and it is hard […]

December 7, 2018


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You might recognize this sweet girl from a pool session we did with her this summer. (That session was much warmer and sunnier weather!) Though her fall session was on a chilly overcast October day, we can’t complain about how gorgeous the fall colors were! They were incredible. Brooklyn is such a beautiful girl inside […]

November 19, 2018


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Meet Elizabeth, one of our beautiful senior spokesmodels. This girl is not only beautiful on the outside but she is equally as gorgeous on the inside. She is such a sweet soul and I could not be more thankful that she joined our spokesmodel program this year. She has been so much FUN to be […]

November 12, 2018


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