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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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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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We are so excited to be sharing the beautiful Daytona on the blog today. One thing we love about Dayton is she is ALWAYS up for something fun! When she said she wanted to incorporate her drums I knew just what we had to do! A fellow photographer, the awesome Shea Gibson a wonderful photographer […]

November 9, 2018


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So excited to be sharing another beautiful senior spokesmodel on the blog today! The beautiful, Liz, never fails to make me laugh, and I love that about her! I seriously couldn’t adore our spokesmodels more, they have just been so much fun to get to know this year. Take a look at some of our […]

November 9, 2018


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We have gotten to see so many of our senior spokesmodels in the last couple weeks and I have absolutely loved it! Each one of the girls is so much fun and I’m so thankful for each of them. It has been so fun to get to know all of them this year and see […]

November 5, 2018


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