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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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We love it when seniors do mini sessions that highlight their interests, talents, sports etc… so of course we were excited to do a session with Lauren and her show cattle.  Now I’m not going to pretend like just because I grew up in an agriculture family that I know all that much about cows, […]

September 19, 2017


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Ashton was our first guy senior for 2018 and he was a trooper!  We all know that the guys don’t enjoy the sessions as much as the girls do but he didn’t complain about all our many location stops and even smiled for us! It was a great session.  Have a great senior year Ashton!

September 17, 2017


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It is incredibly hard to believe that this girl is a SENIOR! When she was growing up I had the privilege of baby sitting her and her siblings. Now she’s the one watching my little ones and we couldn’t love her more! (and yes that does make me feel old) There are so many more […]

September 8, 2017


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Kelsey is a senior at Southeastern this fall. We met up in Macomb for her session, and it was going great and then a rain storm popped up. Luckily it was quick and we got to finish her session, but it turns out the rain was a great thing. After the rain came through the […]

August 24, 2017


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Kailee was such a trooper, as she had one of the hottest days of July and she didn’t complain once! I mean seriously who looks this good when the heat index is over 100, Kailee does! She ROCKED her senior session, heat and all!  We had a great time exploring some of our favorite spots […]

July 27, 2017


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It’s officially senior session season and we couldn’t be more excited! They are some of our very favorite sessions, and the fact that the wildflowers are in full bloom right now makes it that much better!  We met Ashlyn in Augusta and went around using all sorts of different flowers and other favorite spots of […]

July 24, 2017


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We met Alicyn in May when we photographed her sister Alyssa’s wedding.  We were thrilled to meet up with Alicyn and her parents at their family farm to take her senior photos.  We love being able to shoot at places that have special meaning and make our client’s photos that much more unique!  Here are […]

November 15, 2016


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Morgan is a cross country runner and she recently had a race through South Park in Quincy and she loved the scenery.  She asked if we could do her senior session there and a few other Quincy location, and of course we said yes! We enjoyed exploring several of the parks in Quincy, and finding […]

November 9, 2016


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Kaylee is a senior at IW high school and involved in many fall activities. We had planned ahead and scheduled her for Columbus Day so we could hopefully capture the fall colors and not have to worry about the stress of volleyball practice.  The trees surprised us this year and didn’t start to turn quite […]

October 28, 2016


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Braelynn had high hopes for a field of sunflowers for her pictures but unfortunately they were all gone by the time her session came along, but luckily I had spotted this beautiful patch of yellow flowers in the middle of Macomb of all places!  They may not be sunflowers but they sure are gorgeous, and […]

September 1, 2016


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