Shannon Walton Photography » Mine

Bean.

Shannon — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:05:10 +0000

That’s what we call her. Lately I’ve been obsessed with photographing her. I’m not sure why, maybe it’s because she has a loose tooth and those top baby teeth will no longer be. She’s growing up, I don’t like it, but she is. She could be the most photographed child in Central Illinois. After all I started doing this when she was just 9 months old. Yep, nearly 7 years ago. So many things have changed in that time, I have grown as a photographer, and she has grown into a little lady. I look back at the thousands of images I’ve taken of our baby, our only girl, and am thankful to be able to give her beautiful photos when she is grown. My hope is that she looks at these images and feels how much we loved HER, not how much I loved photography.

Fall is almost here and the field was looking beautiful with all the yellow flowers in bloom. It was just calling for the new yellow chair, so her daddy and I made promises of an ice cream cone at DQ and she agreed to some fun in the field. The sun wasn’t quite low enough when we first arrived so she got that cone before our session She has always been pretty great as long as I’m patient while we are shooting. Most of the smiles are a result of her dad giving me bunny ears or pretending he sees a spider on my head.

We are completely booked for September and I only have 3 remaining spots in October. So if you want a fall session it’s best if you grab one now

**Anyone who posts a comment on THIS blog post will be entered to win a complimentary session and (25) custom holiday cards! That’s right, I’ll waive the session fee and you’ll get a set of (25) cards! The session will be booked for November 2011. Session can be immediate family or a sibling/kid session(no large groups or newborns). I’ll draw a winner Friday! **

Shhh…

Shannon — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:01:42 +0000

It’s his birthday soon I’m going to print this as a 10×30 collage I posted this on facebook, but the images have to be so tiny that I thought I’d share it here too!

HaPpY, HaPpY #5

Shannon — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:31:35 +0000

Our little Emma Bean is 5 today! Happy Birthday Sweet Girl…We LOVE you bunches!

Thankful.

Shannon — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:17:54 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Make a wish…

Shannon — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:26:33 +0000

We went to the park today and Emma found this pile of cotton wood (?), not sure if that’s what you call it. Anyway, she told me she wanted to make a wish. Guess what she wished for? A pony, yes a pony. At least my girl knows how to wish big!

The sad part is as were were walking home she said, “I wonder if my pony will be in the backyard when we get home?”

Happy Birthday Kyle!!

Shannon — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:07:31 +0000

My little guy turns 9 today!! I’ve said this before over and over, he is the funniest kid I have ever met. He makes me laugh every single day! His teacher wrote on his coduct and effort sheet, “Kyle cracks me up!”

We hope you have a wonderful day Kyle! Happy Birthday!

We love you bunches and bunches!!

Rainy Days!

Shannon — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:41:41 +0000

Do you know what rainy days are good for?

WORMS!!

She named him wormie and asked if we could keep him inside. She for the most part is such a girly girl. She loves to dress up, play in my makeup, have tea parties and coordinate her clothing. Yet she loves to play in the mud, wrestle with her brothers, and thinks a fart is about the funniest thing ever! I truly have the best of both worlds with her.

By far her favorite thing to do is swing. She could swing for hours. I push her about 1000 times a day on that swing. After we found wormie a proper place to live (not in our house) I pushed her on the swing and snapped some shots. I thought this one was pretty cool…

Opening day part 2!

Shannon — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:05:37 +0000

A couple shots of Ryan. He plays catcher quite a bit and I have yet to get a shot of a “tag out” at home so that will be my goal for this summer.

Opening Day!

Shannon — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:50:58 +0000

I love baseball season! I’m always sad when it ends. We are very busy with 2 boys playing but I love every minute of it! I love capturing the action, just love it! Freezing the motion and even better the ball in mid air (and sometimes the player) is one of my favorite things to shoot. My boys are way over me photographing them for regular portraits but love it when I shoot them playing. They’ll even yell over at me during the game when they’ve made a play or hit the ball and say, “Did you get that mom?”. Here are a few of Kyle and I’ll post some of Ryan in a bit.

I love the pure determination on his face!

and the sheer joy when he tags home (well hopefully he actually got his foot down)

Playing 3rd base…he was ready for this grounder but it took a bad hop as you can see. Way to use your body Kyle!

4 more inches…

Shannon — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:35:46 +0000

Just 4 more and he will look me in the eyes!! When did this happen?

I found a couple images from the very first time Ryan met his little brother Kyle in the hospital. The second is one of my very favorites. His reaction to meeting him is priceless! I am so thankful someone had the camera ready! He is 3 years old in these…

Now look at him…