| Brackett Family Portraits | Decatur IL Limited Edition Session |

I’m excited to share with you our latest session with the Brackett family. I’ve had the pleasure to work with Michelle and her lovely family a few times over the years and it’s always so much fun. We had beautiful fall colors at Fairview for our fall Limited Edition sessions and everyone looked adorable!

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Of course, when we have the whole family together and all dressed up we make sure to get individual portraits of everyone! It only takes a few minutes and gives everyone their moment in the spotlight.

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Be sure to check out their last session here on our facebook page to see how much these kiddos have grown! Looking for your own updated family session? Or just the kids? Our Limited Edition session dates are set for 2018 and give you the choice of 15 or 30 minutes (perfect for little ones, and even dads, who don’t want to take an hour out of their play/work day for portraits). Plus, our LE sessions include 50% off our Limited Edition product line. You can book yours HERE now.

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| Darcy | Warrensburg-Latham High School Senior 2018 |

Check out Darcy’s senior session! Don’t you just love her hair, the braids were such a fun touch. Darcy’s a senior at Warrensburg-Latham high school and we’re just a couple months away from the big graduation day for all you class of 2018 seniors.

Darcy, like a lot of our seniors, chose to mix it up with her session locations to get a bit of that great urban grunge texture along with the beautiful wild natural look of our conservation areas. And I just loved her style. It’s so eclectic we went from ripped jeans and leather jacket to school house prep to soft natural dresses to a bold pop of red at the end!

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And LOOK!!! How adorable is her little fur baby?!?

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We finished up the session working in one of her favorite things, her book collection (I don’t think we event got all of them out for these image!).

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| Samuel | 2 Years Old | Jefferson City Missouri Photographer |

Today we have an awesome little guy to share with you on the blog today, I know him since he was the smallest baby and he has to use this small car seat from Babyzoom.net. I’ve loved watching him grow up over the last 2 years and he’s now definitely graduated out of our ‘baby’ program into a smart, fun and active little boy!

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Many don’t know we have a full TWO year ‘baby grows’ program that includes a full newborn session, and 4 additional mini children’s sessions we suggest using for 4, 8, 12 and 24 months. This lets us follow your little one as they enter the world, discover their tiny hands/feet, sit up and start to explore the world around them, take their first tentative steps into that world and finally discover and share their unique personalities.

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And don’t forget the family…. Your family changes over those two years as much as your little one does. For the Star family that means they just leveled up and welcomed a beautiful baby girl to their family but we were so happy to give Samuel his moment in the spotlight before his promotion to big brother.

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And yes, you read that blog title right, this lovely family lives in Jefferson City, MO (my hometown) and though I don’t take a LOT of sessions back home each year I have a few opportunities to return and photograph on my old stomping grounds.

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| Dynagraphics INC | Wood Printing | Small Businesses Decatur IL |

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The Details: Scott Bowers, Vice President of Sales or Dynagraphics, INC / Wood Printing | In Business: Since 1980

Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00-5:00| Location: 3220 N Woodford St. Decatur IL | Phone: 876.9950 | Website: www.dynagraphics.com

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Tell us about your business… What do you do?

In 1980, my parents, Richard “Barry” and Melanie Bowers, purchased Promo Graphics, a screen printing company that produced retail sign kits for 65 Eisner Foods (Jewel) stores. My brother David and I worked with our parents from the start. As teenagers, David operated screen printing and offset presses and I worked in the bindery department. In 1988 the company purchased state-of-the-art quick printing equipment that allowed faster turnaround and lower cost, and the Fast Impressions division was born. We’ve since added equipment for short-run full-color posters, displays, vehicle wraps, full-color signage, outdoor graphics, and a Zund G3 cutter for shape cutting everything from paper to aluminum. Then in recent years we acquired local printer, Wood Printing, expanding our print capability greatly and enabling us to provide all of your printing and graphics needs in one place.

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What makes your business unique/special?

We’re known for doing work on a very short deadline. And, our customer service is second to none – when there’s a problem we do everything to make it right.

What item/service on your menu or in your shop do you just LOVE and think everyone needs?

I really like our architectural graphics and custom wallpaper.

 

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I was lucky enough to be at Dynagraphics for their feature on a day they were printing Thrive Entertainment Guide. It was super cool to see how crazy fast this press runs (and fun to crank my shutter speed super high to try to catch a glimpse of what was nearly impossible to see with the naked eye). Plus, it just so happened to be the issue that had our full page senior ad on the back … there was a huge PILE of sjp seniors, pretty awesome to see in person! 

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In what way have you gone above/beyond in the past for a customer?

We did a job for Huston-Patterson, and in order to make a deadline we chartered a plane to Pennsylvania.

What is the coolest thing you’ve ever had a client do for you? 

We’ve had many clients make introductions to friends and colleagues. When we remodeled we received flower arrangements. And we have so much support whenever we have an open house, such as Refreshment Services Pepsi providing a fountain.

What tool/equipment/or other vendor could you not imagine doing business without? 

We love Midland Paper; their service is great.

 

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What other local business do you just LOVE? Why?

Perry Products – their offering is quite unique. They do Perry suspenders; they’re inventors.

When did you know you wanted to go into this business?

I worked for my folks, I didn’t really have a choice (laughs). I’ve worked here all but four years.

What are you passionate about outside of your business? 

My children, my relationship with God and my church family.

Describe your PERFECT day:

Nice weather, a Saturday to be able to sleep in. Maybe be able to do something outside, with the people I love close by.

 

Introduce us to your STAFF

Cindy Staudenmaier, Controller  |  Dan Niebrugge, Plant Manager  |  Sam Tangman, Key Accounts Rep  |  Coleen Holloway, Customer Service  |  Angie Hawkins, Customer Service  |  Sue Watts, Customer Service  |  Tony Hector, Customer Service  |  Justin Van Valey, Graphic Designer  |  Sheri Martin, Graphic Designer  |  Brian Sheppard, Graphic Designer  |  Nick Schloz, Graphic Designer  |  Jean Zerfowski, Graphic Designer  |  Jim Ashby, Marketing & Sales Executive

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| Klemm Family Portraits | Decatur IL |

I’ve so loved working with this family over the past year or so. We started with Evan’s senior portraits and then wanted to create some family portraits for Dave and Linda before they are empty nesters. And since we’d created a wall collage with Evan’s portraits we took a bit of time at their family session to take a variety of images of his sister Sara so we could give her a wall collage of her own too!

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We ended up designing a complete collage combining the below image as their feature ‘anchor’ piece in the center with a collage of the kids on each side. My favorite part about creating wall art with the ‘kids’ at this age is that these can hang for YEARS to come without the need to update as they are the last portraits of the family together before the kids branch out on their own and start their own lives/families. They’ll be your kids forever and this is our chance to freeze this moment with them to enjoy in your home even when they aren’t there any longer!

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