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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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July 20, 2018July 20, 2018

| First Christian Church Decatur IL | Baby Dedication Day |

This year I got a unique opportunity to photograph these beautiful families at the First Christian Church baby dedication celebration. This church does a wonderful brunch celebration with the families and we took our mobile studio to be sure that each family got an adorable portrait with everyone all dolled up (are they not the cutest).

Most of the time our mobile studio is used for more corporate events with headshots and the like so this was a really fun change of pace (and no offense to all my corporate clients but a smidge cutter too!).

A big thank you goes out to Stephanie at Green Tree Media on this shoot too. As this was just days before my due date we had a contingency plan for her to step in if baby girl decided to arrive early OR in dramatic fashion while we were at the event. Luckily, there was not an extra little one arriving to the party that day so she was there to be my extra hands and it’s always so fun to work with her.

January 13, 2017January 11, 2017

| Lucas | 1 Month Old Portraits | Jefferson City MO |

BONUS Friday post! And what better way to end your week (before a cold/icy weekend) than with cuddly baby photos?!?!

Being a single momma has to be one of the toughest jobs on the planet and the ladies who are raising their little ones solo are some of the strongest, smartest, most loving and hard-working people I’ve met. But though they want/love/cherish photographs of their perfect little ones it’s often something they have to do without so they can provide the other more-essential items.

Well I was lucky enough to be able to gift this lovely new momma and her little man Lucas a session while I was back home in Missouri this fall. And in 2017 I’m excited to be working on a project to gift other single moms family portraits… the project is just in the beginning stages but I will be planning something around early August in memory of my own momma (stay tuned I hope we are able to create something really special!).

If you follow me on instagram (@sjanephotography) you may remember seeing some behind the scenes from this session. Knowing we were shooting on a cool morning and on location (since I was just passing through Missouri for the day) I decided to crank the heat in the car and create a little studio spot right there! This is definitely my first time in over 12 years of work that I’ve shot in my trunk but it worked out great and we were able to keep Lucas warm and comfy!

September 20, 2016September 20, 2016

| Scovill Zoo Fundraising Event – Zoorific 2016 |

Another year for ZOORIFIC at the Scovill Zoo! I’m honored to be a part of this event for the Zoo annually. If you follow me on instagram (@sjanephotography for business and @sarahjaneshorthose for personal: 99% #babyb) you’ve seen BabyB and me OFTEN at the zoo. We make it at least 2-3 times a month for a couple hours. She loves the animals and it’s a great safe place for her to run some energy off and even learn a bit. Plus, have you seen that playground!?!? What’s not to love!
Zoorific is the Zoo’s annual fundraising event and it’s a blast! You have the chance to explore the zoo animals up close and personal. There are feedings with the penguins, camels, tortoises, zebras (and even the cheetahs – though the staff feeds them not you, so everyone keeps their fingers!).

Along with great animal interactions there’s great FOOD from a ton of local restaurants!

And to finish the night it’s ICE CREAM and auction time with some amazing items up for grabs… This year as a part of the Zoorific evening the zoo partnered with DMH to unveil the William Barnes, MD Butterfly Exhibit!