Shanna Chess Photography

 Had such a fun milestone and cake smash photography session with this family last month. This was kind of a bittersweet session for me because it wraps up my baby package for baby number two. Ace is one year old now and I’ve been photographing him and his big brother Knox every few months since they were newborns, as well as doing Brittany’s maternity sessions. They are the sweetest family and I have loved being able to document their babies growing! We wanted to get the full experience in this session, so we started off with milestone baby pictures of Ace and his parents and brother before getting out the cake. Although mini sessions focus just on baby, full sessions always give you the opportunity to include other members of the family, so it’s a great time to a couple of updated family pictures or sibling shots. Ace is such a smiley baby—but he was also happy to show off the full range of his facial expressions for me. He liked making grumpy faces at me and holding it for as l...

 I always look forward to my annual photo sessions with these girls! I’ve been photographing them at least once a year since big sister Annalise was just a newborn and it’s always a delight to see them again. We had just as much fun with this milestone photography session as we always do—these girls are a hoot! (If you’d like to check out their previous sessions, I’ve linked them here so you can take a look at these two little cuties over the years. So fun to see them change and grow. I did Annalise by herself as a newborn , and at the one-year and two-year marks, then I did mom’s maternity session when was she pregnant with Thea. Of course we did newborn and one-year sessions starring Thea, and since then we’ve had an annual “sisters session” with the two girls each year in 2018 , 2019 , and now 2020!) I was so glad parents Josh and Annabelle contacted me again this year about doing another child photography session for their girls. As a Eugene, Oregon photographer I lo...

I was so glad to finally get this family in for baby pictures! They had originally scheduled this as a newborn photography session, but I wasn’t able to get them into the studio right after Owen was born because I closed my Eugene, Oregon photography studio for a while due to COVID. Closing was definitely the right thing to do—I really wanted to ensure that I could keep little ones safe and comply with all the recommended health guidelines—but it was one of those tough decisions! I missed seeing these little guys so much, and I knew that for some of them, we would miss that window of opportunity for newborn pictures. Still, the safety of these sweet babies is my top priority—even if it means I have to delay seeing them. So glad to be open again! Even though we couldn’t get Owen in right away, we got him on the schedule as soon as we could and adjusted his session to a baby and child photography session instead of a newborn shoot. As you can see, it still went great! Mom (Kim), Dad (E...