| Senior Best Friend Sessions | Limited Edition Mini Event |

I’m so excited to share with you some of our favorite images from this year’s BFF day sessions! I’ve always let our seniors include a friend or sibling in their senior session but this year I took it a step further and hosted a BFF day for our seniors to bring in their friends for 30 minutes in the spotlight and it was a blast!

One thing about BFF sessions is you have to pose CLOSE so we laughed that if these girls weren’t friends before the session they were going to be after! With my own high school 10 year reunion just last weekend (and my BFF not only a girl I went to high school with but middle and grade school too!) these were such fun sessions because I know how in just a year so many of these girls will scatter across the state, the country and even the world. Though they may stay in touch and even some may stay close, the days of seeing eachother every day in the halls are coming to a close for most of them in just a few short months.

Soak up these times ladies, you are all fabulous!

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| Abby F | Senior Class of 2017 | Central A & M High School |

I’m so excited to share Abby’s senior portraits with you!!! She is an absolute sweetheart and has been so fun to work with. One of her first experiences with SJP was literally being a part of our parachute dress with Kayle. Pretty much EVERY shot with Kayle in her pink Terani Couture dress had Abby UNDER the dress holding her up or fluffing it out. She was a HUGE help and 100% on board to jumping in to be hands on! (You can see more of her model images and the parachute shoot HERE).

I was so excited to get to Abby’s time in the spotlight and she was a blast to photograph. We wanted something personal to her so not only did we highlight a bit of who she was (great athlete & FFA gal) in the studio but we also highlighted a bit of her family story by photographing part of her session at her grandparent’s house with their Forlines Farms semi!!! (Plus a bunny!! Seriously fun session guys!).

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| Carly | Senior Class of 2017 | Decatur IL |

Check out Carly’s senior portraits! I was so excited when Carly and her dad came in to design her session and she started talking about what she had in mind for her portraits and wanting to feature a few things that were important to her like her church. Well what better way to feature that than to have part of the session at the church! GT church is lovely outside so it was a beautiful location for her session. And since she wanted a little water too we headed over to Rock Springs to finish out her session.

This lovely lady is currently in Army National Guard basic training so we want to wish her luck, hope it’s going well and thank her for her choice to serve our country!

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| Introducing the Class of 2017 High School Senior Models | Decatur, IL |

Our senior model team this year is AMAZING!!!! These guys braved 40-50mph wind gusts on our group session day and all looked stellar. I have to tell you a little behind the scenes secret about this group image…. I got inspired when I saw these gold letters and though I’m usually all about the black/white/silver look I decided to go outside my usual go to colors and get all these to create this group image. (Plus, all the models got their own initial in their swag bags!

So… game time – on session day, creating this image I was SOOO worried that we would spell SENIORS wrong because getting 7 people to hold 10 letters was logistically challenging. So we checked, and rechecked and got it RIGHT! You know what we didn’t get right?!?!?!?! SJP, for real! So you’re looking right now and it looks great right?! Yes, ’tis the magic of Photoshop, my friends. Now scroll down……… AHHHHHH I couldn’t believe it! But no sweat, that’s why God made Photoshop.

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Well now that you’ve seen what when WRONG on the model session, take a look at all that went RIGHT…..

JORDAN | MacArthur

Who’s your hero? My hero is the rapper G eazy, because I never seen someone work as hard for success as him.

What’s your favorite thing to do? My favorite thing to do is go long boarding.

What do you want to do when you grow up? I hope that when I get older, I become a special education teacher.
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ABBY | Central A & M 

Who’s your hero? My hero is Peyton McVey, she’s the coolest 3rd grader I know! She inspires me to be the best person that I can be, and for that, and several other reasons, she is my hero.

What will you miss most about high school? When I leave high school, I will miss being a part of FFA and being a part of my sports families. I’ll miss hearing my name being announced for the starting lineup for volleyball and walking down the hallways with my small class of 60 students.

Why did you choose SJP? I chose SJP for my senior pictures, because I had seen the work Sarah had done and I was amazed! After I got to meet with her, I knew that I had made the right decision!
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EMILY | Central A & M 

What does your DREAM life look like? In my dream life, I am living in North Carolina on the beach with my husband and children. I own my own dance studio, and teach dance at a performing arts high school. Because of my work schedule, my family is always able to take a summer vacation as well as come back to Illinois to visit family.

Why did you choose SJP? I chose to have my senior pictures taken by Sarah Jane, and each moment I’m with her I become more and more confident in my decision. She came with multiple high recommendations from friends and peers, and while stalking her Facebook and Instagram, I fell in love with all the pictures and the way she truly captured the personality of each individual.high school seniors, senior portraits, senior pics, decatur il, photographer, sjp, sjanephotography, decatur il photographer, senior photographer, outdoor portraits, senior pic ideas, senior picture ideas

ABBY | LSA 
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KAITLIN | Central A & M 
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KAYLE | Mt. Zion 

What will you miss most about high school? High school is a time where you discover who you are! You meet new people. You gain friends, loose friends, fall in love, really find yourself and make memories that will last a lifetime. Soon enough I will be at my last Friday night football game, last homecoming and prom, it will be the last time I eat lunch in the cafeteria with my friends, soon I will be closing my locker and walking away with people I’ve watched over the years and made millions of memories with. I will soon be lining up in alphabetical order one last time in cap and gown with the people I have spent my whole life with. Some I will never see again and some maybe never even hear about. That is what I will miss most about high school! I will miss late night talks with my best friends! I will miss the lifelong bonds I have made with my wonderful teachers, miss high school traditions and most of all making memories with great people!
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JORDAN | Maroa-Forsyth 
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I’m so so excited to have you all on the SJP Model Team this year and cannot wait to finish creating your one-of-a-kind senior portraits!!! high school seniors, senior portraits, senior pics, decatur il, photographer, sjp, sjanephotography, decatur il photographer, senior photographer, outdoor portraits, senior pic ideas, senior picture ideas

| Alex | Warrensburg-Latham High School Class of 2016 Senior |

This time of year is always bitter sweet for me! As I get excited to say hello to a new class of seniors, I get nostalgic looking back at the previous class and as we finalize things like graduation cards and such it’s a reminder that their families are all about to send their ‘babies’ out into the world.

Alex, is one of my last few class of 2016 seniors and I’m excited to show you some of our favorite images from his session. I love that as we started Alex’s Premiere his lovely momma mentioned ‘I think I like him smiling best.’ and ‘I’ll likely only do 1-2 black and whites.’ Well as we were finishing up I pointed out that we had quite a few black and whites and many with Alex not smiling. I just wanted to be sure she noticed and was 100% pleased with her choices and she absolutely was! That’s one of the many reasons we walk through the Premiere viewings with our clients together AND take a variety of poses and expressions on the session because choosing what you like or want BEFORE seeing the images is hard and often, the images change your mind.

It’s always fun for me to see which images my clients fall in love with and I think Marianne did a great job selecting these!

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You’ll be able to see a few more from Alex’s session on our Facebook Page soon!