Shannon Walton Photography

Well, it sure has been awhile since I posted on my newly designed blog!  Summer has been very busy for us here at the Walton household.  We  have 3 kids playing ball this year so I can count on 2 fingers how many free evenings we have this summer  I have been trying very hard to manage my time this summer to allow for a little more family time.  My son graduated 8th grade, my other son will be moving to the junior high, and our daughter will be a first grader.  I suddenly realized  how fast they’ve grown and that I may only have 4 more years  with my oldest under my roof.  I honestly don’t know where the past 14 years went.  People say it all the time but I feel like time just keeps going faster and faster and to be honest it scared me just a little.  Well, maybe a lot.  So, with that being said, my blog was probably the least on my priority list.

Now, onto little miss “C”.  She was absolutely perfect!  Here she is with her two favorite people…

Where’s the baby?

There she is!!

At this point it started to rain.  The beauty of my studio is that we have a great outdoor shooting area and if the weather is too hot, too cold or it starts to rain we can shoot some inside.  So, that’s what we did…

So we took a bunch inside and notice it cleared off so back outside we went…

So I finally had to say to her mom, “If we keep shooting you are never going to be able to pick!”  This is only a small portion of the images in her gallery.  She is lovely, so are her parents.  Happy half birthday “C”!!

*********Update**********  The Mother’s Day Special is FULL!!  Thank you so much!

So I’m a little late to the game and I wasn’t really planning on doing a Mother’s day promotion but yesterday I was proofing this session and realized how much I loved photographing it and how much images like this would mean to me  What do mom’s love more than diamonds and flowers…their kids of course!!  So I put together a little Mother’s Day special!  The great thing is that it won’t be specific to any certain date so you can plan ahead.  The session will be one hour, I realize sometimes it takes kids a little bit to warm up and I don’t like to rush things.  If weather permits we can go outside the studio too.  For you dad’s out there this would be a FABULOUS gift to give your wife.  Once you’ve booked and paid the session fee I will mail you a gift card specific to the mom and me sessions.  You can choose either the high res files (3) or a set of accordion books(same design) once you view your images.  You don’t have to choose now.  I am only taking the first 10 who book so please don’t wait and this offer will expire on Monday!!

Little “A” is 18 months and I’ve been photographing her since she was days old.  They really do grow like weeds!  A typical session for 18 months – 3 years involves me being a little creative and doing quite a bit of chasing  Normally they are really great at walking and most likely RUNNING.   It cracks me up when parents apologize for them not sitting still for their sessions but who wants to sit still when you have mastered these things called legs.  Exploring and taking advantage of their new found independence is what they do best.   I always love showing parents images from these sessions because they are usually surprised by the number of great shots we got even though it wasn’t as easy as it was when they were nine months or 1 year.   Here are a few of my favorites…