Shanna Chess Photography

It was such a perfect day for photos at Hendricks Park.  Cindi wanted a floral outdoor setting for their engagement pictures, and I just knew Hendricks Park would be perfect with all the rhododendron flowers blooming.  They brought their adorable 2 year old chocolate lab, Wyatt, and Cindi's sister, Megan.  Wyatt was so excited to check out a new outdoor play area but did a great job for their pictures. I can't wait to be the photographer for their big day!!  Coming this October :)  Enjoy!

Please bare with me.  I am trying to figure out Google+ and I noticed there were pictures that I uploaded to this blog on there.  I only saw really old images and things like my logo or the background design that I uploaded when I first opened my business.  So I deleted them from Google+.  Apparently, that deletes them, and ALL OF MY PHOTOS EVER UPLOADED from this blog as well :(  Yes, I am yelling. This will take a very long time and some images are off my computers and on my external hard drive by now. I need to decide how far back I am wanting to fix the posts. So I am slowly re-uploading and editing blog posts from the past almost 2 years.  Ugh.  It may take a while.  All the pictures can be seen in my portfolio here .  Sorry and thanks for your understanding!

Yes, it is a little early to be wishing you a Merry Christmas, but honestly, we HAD to do these pictures this past week.  This young, married couple is sooo busy!  Nainoa works a ton of hours and is going to school and also working on logging hours towards his commercial pilot's licence.  And Lindsey has two jobs.  So when we had a dry day in the forecast, daylight and they both weren't working--we had to jump at the opportunity! I love photographing this couple!  Of course, I'm a little biased since she is my "baby" sister and Nainoa is my brother-in-law and the Godfather of our youngest daughter.  But I absolutely think they are just stunning.  They take such gorgeous photographs and their immense love for each other is just oozing out of their pores.  It's a little disgusting actually!  :p  I'm pretty excited that no matter what happens with my photography business, I will at least always have this session every year.  Lindsey ...

So excited to photograph my first wedding as the primary photographer today.  Congratulations to Curt and Andrea!  I had the pleasure of photographing their engagement photos and their maternity photos.  Can't wait to share images from today.  It's going to be an amazingly beautiful day!

I believe this is one of the most gorgeous couples out there.  And just because she is my baby sister and he is my brother-in-law does not make me biased at all :p Seriously though, it was so much fun photographing them in their first year of marriage. Enjoy!

I absolutely love this couple!  They are adorable and so in love.  They love to laugh, play and just have a great time!  We had a great shoot at Lonepine Farms out on the pumpkin patch. Enjoy!

This adorable couple was a joy to photograph!  And they even brought their "baby" Krypto  :) Enjoy!

Had so much fun photographing this beautiful couple!  The rain threatened to ruin our session, but we got a break and not a drop on us :) Enjoy!

Had so much fun photographing this couple!  Curt cracked me up the whole shoot!  They have a very exciting upcoming year with their first baby due in January and a wedding to plan for August :) Enjoy!