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December 12, 2018December 12, 2018

| Class of 2019 Senior Model | Best Friend Sessions | Decatur IL Photographer |

I’ve been having so much fun this year with our senior model team. We have a fabulous group of girls and one of my absolute favorite parts of our model perks is their BFF session. We invite them to share a portion of their senior portrait experience with the friends that are important in their lives right now. We all know that adulthood is right around the corner for these guys and with that comes school and jobs that could be right next door or across the country/world and I always say one of the hardest parts of adulthood that no one talks about is no longer living a block from your best friend.

Of course, some of these relationships will last a lifetime (my bff has been in my life since first grade – the elementary pictures we have of eachother are the BEST) and others will fade or fray. But whether these people are destined to be in your lives for a year or a decade or a hundred years, they are an important part of this chapter now and we want to give them their time to shine with you!

And a little perk of joining our model program early (this is for you class of 2021 as we’ll open up for you just next month) is that we’ll feature your bffs your senior year AND your junior year if you’d like!

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Believe it or not we are less than one month away from opening up our model interviews again for the class of 2020 and for the first time for 2021 seniors! You can already apply NOW at sjanephotography.com

November 30, 2018November 29, 2018

| First Christian Church | Baby Dedication Brunch | Decatur IL |

I’m so excited to share another baby dedication day with you all. I’m absolutely loving working with First Christian Church families on these special events. It’s a fun challenge to create an image that showcases 10-15 families (and all those little ones) in a short window of time (you can imagine this image just cannot take even 20 minutes to take with babies who may need to eat or be changed or be tired). So I try to work quickly while still making sure each family can shine.

My favorite part has to be creating the individual family portraits for each family though. It’s such a special gift that the church offers to the families to commemorate the event with a free family portrait, aren’t all these guys like picture perfect?!?! I hope you’ll join me in sending them all a bit of love as they begin to raise these little angels.

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October 4, 2018October 4, 2018

| Loren + Zachary | Fall Family Session | Decatur IL |

I can’t tell you how much I love and appreciate it when clients choose me not just for one portrait session but for their sessions continuously over the years. I was lucky enough to photograph Loren’s senior portraits, then her momma’s wedding day and now some updated family portraits for them over the years (including their fur babies!!!).

This year she trusted me enough to come out and brave a very rainy morning and do something a little different than we’ve done in the past. We chose a location that would give us a nice backdrop or two out of the rain and then at the end decided to go ahead and dive right out into the rain to embrace the not so wonderful weather. I’m so glad these guys were on board with something a little different and love what we were able to create.

Be sure to give them some love here and on our facebook page!

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October 2, 2018October 2, 2018

| Will | Warrensburg-Latham High School | Senior 2018 |

Check out Will’s senior session! We’re now in the odd part of my year (ok really this is all year long) where I’m rounding out the last few orders for the past class of 2018 as they head off to college, in full on shooting mode for the current senior class of 2019 AND fielding model applications as they come in for the class of 2020… which basically just means I CONSTANTLY write the wrong year on all my checks, and school/doctor forms for the girls. I swear these people must think I’m nuts making out my checks for 8/18/20 (talk about post-dating, ya cash that thing in a couple YEARS!).

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About half our senior guys each year choose our Simple senior session and one of my favorite things to show from those shorter 45 minute, single location sessions is how much we can create in that amount of time! I always work hard to select a location that will give us a lot of variety in a small area and encourage the senior to bring 3 different outfits so we can again get variety in the look of the images. But don’t worry if you (or your son) aren’t looking to spend 4 hours or multiple days on sessions. We absolutely do not have to do that to create a wide variety of images to showcase their personality, style and highlight their senior year. high school senior photographer, senior photography, senior portraits, senior guy, senior album design, albums, best senior photographer, decatur il, illinois, central illinois, outdoor senior portraits, downtown senior portraits, football portraits, sarah jane photography, sjanephotography, sjp,

We are still booking fall/winter/spring sessions for the class of 2019 AND taking model applications for the class of 2020 model team.

September 25, 2018September 25, 2018

| Michael | WLHS Senior Portraits | Decatur IL |

It’s Michael’s day on the blog today! We had such a great mix at his session of the classic and the new/edgy. We kicked things off here in the studio since we had to create his yearbook headshot anyways we decided to do a few other more formal images here before we headed out.

One fun thing on Michael’s session was being spotted by a few of his friends who threw out some cat calls as we were shooting. Our girls kick up a ruckus and even brides and grooms elicit passing honks and hollers of congrats but it’s kind of the most fun when the guys get spotted by their friends.

Below are the top two picks of both Michael and his momma. The left black and white will grace the cover of his album and the middle will hang on their wall soon (it just arrived from the lab!). I think they picked perfectly for both.

I have just a couple after school openings left for you guys this fall … down to just October 9-11, 18th & 25th and Saturday 11/3 is our LAST fall Saturday. If you’re hoping for a fall senior/family/couple session shoot me an email to setup your consultation today.