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  • Hi There! That is me, Shannon Walton, in the image directly to your right. The shot was taken by my friend and fellow photographer Kelly and retouched by me, because quite frankly I have wrinkles, dark circles and gray hair.

    I have been married to my high school crush for 15 years. I can honestly say I'm as much in love today as the day I convinced him he wasn't getting rid of me :) We have 3 amazing kids. 2 boys and a girl. Each of them are completely unique and as individual as can be. I like that. It would be boring if everyone was the same. It may sound cliche but they truly are my inspiration.

    I have been told I have a gift for seeing babies and kids the way their parents see them. I like that too. I want to be a trend setter, I don't enjoy the view of someone's coattails. While wanting to constantly be challenging myself to come up with new ideas my main goal is to give you images that you will treasure for years and years to come.

    I really do have the best clients on the planet, so many have become dear friends. Thank you to those of you who have trusted me with your precious memories. I look forward to making many new friends in the years to come.

    Don't forget to check us out on Facebook! I often post images, sneak peeks, and specials on our fan page. Click the facebook link below or "like" us right here on the blog!

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Happy ONE! ~ Washinton IL Child Photographer

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He was such a happy baby!  This was our first session together and look forward to many more.  I bet he was an adorable newborn.  Those cheeks and adorable curls had me smiling our whole time together.  His parents chose the digi mini session which is perfect for one child and gives you the ability to print whatever you choose from the session.  You get a smaller number of images from this session as a regular session, but still a good variety.  I’m posting them here so you can see what is included in a normal digital mini session.  It has become very popular among clients.  Feel free to contact me for info.  These sessions are only for kids, no families or newborns.  We are filling up for Spring.  Only a few sessions available in April.  It continues to be a very busy year for newborns.  If you know someone who is expecting or you are considering us for your newborn session PLEASE reserve those sessions as we are typically booked 8 weeks out.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Babies, Babies, Babies ~ Illinois Newborn Photographer

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It’s been a new year full of babies:)  I haven’t shared newborn photos here on the blog for quite some time so I decided to grab several from some recent sessions to share.  I’ve had lots of incredible new clients this year.   One of my new dads carried a baby brush around in his back pocket to fix his little loves hair in between shooting.  So adorable.  It’s really an amazing experience to witness the love felt between parents and their new bundles.  Sometimes I’ll look over when shooting and see the biggest grins on their parents faces and I’m quite sure they don’t even realize their smiling from the inside out.   I consider myself blessed to be a part of their first days together.

We are anticipating a new baby boy this weekend.  Our Myla will have a brother:)   We can’t wait to get our hands on him and already have the perfect name picked out which I’ll share on Saturday when he comes home!  Besides a newborn baby’s head their is no sweeter smell than puppy breath…lol!  I hope you’re all having a great week!

 

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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Digital File Sale!!

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We are upgrading our back up system and need to purge old files. I’m going to offer the digital files from sessions photographed prior to Jan. 2011. If you’d like the high res digital files from your session now is the time as they will no longer be available after March 12th. I will be removing all old sessions from our storage system and transferring the current ones to a new one. Please don’t  post here ,  please send an e-mail to shannon@shannonwalton.net and I will send you pricing and info regarding the files. Also if you know someone that we have photographed and you think they may be interested I’d appreciate you letting them know.  I wish that I could archive them forever but I have a massive amount of files stored and it’s just not feasible to continue to store them and back them up.  It would take months to transfer all the files.

Since I never like posting without photos here are some from a recent brother session:)

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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Valentine Fun ~ Illinois Child Photographer

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I have to apologize because I had intended to do a Valentine mini session and had so many newborns born this month that I didn’t have time.  I’m behind a bit on designing birth announcements and proofing sessions because of the recent baby boom and just felt it wasn’t fair to my clients to add to the work load.  It drives me crazy when people have to wait, I’m not a patient waiter myself:)  Anyway, I bought this frame at the end of December with the idea to do this for Valentines day.  I had seen a cute shot I believe on pinterest (the kisses set up) and wanted to try a few other things I came up with after the kisses inspiration.  I love finding inspiration for images all around me, I really don’t like copying something exactly as I see it, but to use it to come up with my own ideas.   I asked one of my clients who comes every few months to have me photograph her boys if she’d be interested in letting me try the setups during her session.   Can I just say that for a last minute request she did not disappoint with the outfit selections.  I told her she’d never be able to do a mini session because she brings too many adorable options!!  I love these boys.  They have become like family I see them so much.  I even asked if it would be okay for Emma to come for their session because she has been begging to help me.  She did such a great job and think the boys had fun hanging out with her.

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Sunday, January 29, 2012

I nearly forgot how to post it’s been so long!

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Last week I photographed yet another little doll and when I met her mom she said, “Do you ever post on your blog anymore?”   “I read through most of it and really enjoyed reading it but noticed you hadn’t posted since September.”  Yikes, that’s a LONG time!!   So I decided that the first blog post of 2012 should be of her little cutie petutie!  I really enjoyed working with this family.  I always love getting the opportunity to work with someone new.  I enjoy it even more when they come back year after year so I hope I get to see little Miss “A” again in the near future because she was absolutely awesome to photograph.  Smiles came without much effort and to say that her parents were quite smitten with her would be an understatement.  Prepare yourself…she is almost too cute to handle….

 

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