Shanna Chess Photography

Oh my, Macie is one of the most adorable little girls I have ever photographed!  And the most awake!  I think I spent almost 2 hours of our 4.5 hour session just trying to get her to sleep.  Little stinker :p  But we made up for lost time when she did fall asleep and got a bunch of gorgeous photos!  She is only the 3rd baby girl that I've had in my studio in almost a year and I had a lot of props and blankets I wanted to use on her :)  Thankfully her mom and dad were patient and let me have fun with their little angel.  It was my first newborn session using backlighting (or dreamlighting as it has recently been referred to) because we wanted to recreate a maternity image from Brandi's studio maternity session  but with Macie on her belly instead of inside.  So I thought I would do all the parent shots with the backlighting and I love it!  Enjoy!!

Sweet little Tucker made a scary entrance into this world at not quite 32 weeks gestation.  He was in the NICU a little over 4 weeks and made it into my studio at almost 5 weeks old just weighing a little more than 5 pounds.  He was super teeny AND super sleepy :)  His session was a record for my quickest newborn session--we were complete in 1.5 hours!  And oh my goodness, he is just super adorable and was so nice to me by going into all the poses.  And he didn't even pee or poop on me!  Angel baby ;)  I can't wait for him to come and visit me for his milestone sessions--4 of them until he turns 1!  It will be exciting to see how much he grows.  Enjoy!

Mr. Jensen was not in the mood to be photographed!  He was in the mood to eat ;)  But I managed to get some beautiful shots of his adorable face!  And his parents are just the cutest couple ever.  Such sweet people and it was a pleasure working with them :)  Enjoy!

I was excited but also nervous for Caleb's session.  His mom and dad had a lot of special items they wanted incorporated into his session and most of them I hadn't used anything like it before, so a lot of the images were new territory for me.  But I L.O.V.E. how his session turned out.  The Batman themed pictures make his parents so happy and I think they are so adorable :)  They even had the idea of putting temporary tattoos on him at the end of the session so we could snap some pictures of him "matching" his daddy.  Enjoy!

What a gorgeous family!  We enjoyed a morning at Dorris Ranch in Springfield.  I can't wait to meet the new baby boy that will be arriving soon :)  Enjoy!