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Jennifer Langston | Shreveport Louisiana Portrait Photographer

It is so special to be asked by another photographer to photograph them. I just loved getting to meet Jennifer! She is the sweetest and so talented herself.

We met at Red River Wildlife Refuge in Shreveport Louisiana for her updated headshots. This is a location that I love so much in the shreveport area. It has so much variety and if you are lucky with your timing like we were, you get to take advantage of how much they like to provide things for the pollinators. AKA FLOWERS!! I love photographing my clients in a field of flowers. It makes me sooo happy!!

Jennifer was a dream to photograph, so easy going and fun. I loved every second of it and I am so thrilled with these images. The colors, the warm light, ALL OF IT!! I just love it all!!

October 24, 2024
Allison turns 14 | North Louisiana Photographer

My little sister turned 14 and I have no idea how!! Seems like just yesterday we were all waiting anxiously to get to see her after she was born. Wasn’t she just toddling around, learning how to walk?? Time goes by so quickly! I know it can be hard to feel that when you are in the trenches of parenthood, raising those little ones. But truly, before you know it, they are teens. From what I hear, that is a new can of worms. Haha!!

Every year I try to take my little sister out for photos to celebrate another year. She loves her animals so we usually incorporate them as well. Thankfully, my parents live on a beautiful piece of land in North Louisiana that we always do her photos at. This is the same piece of land that I grew up on and it just love it.

Earlier in the year, my sister was kicked in the face by one of their horses. She made a miraculous recovery and didn’t even have a broken bone! We were so thankful!! To me, for her get right back out there with her horses is so brave. I think I would be terrified. But she goes out with grace and loves them all the same.

January 23, 2024
Reesby Family | Shreveport Louisiana Family Photogrpaher

Meet the Reesby family. They were such a sweet group of people! We snuck this session in real quick before Christmas came and I hurried to get them back to them. The Christmas season can seems to sneak up on you sometimes. I was so glad that I was able to work this session in!

We met at the Red River Wildlife Refuge in Shreveport on cool evening in December. I had just been there a few short weeks ago and there were still lots of leaves on the trees. When I arrived, to my dismay, all the leaves were gone. WAHH!!! This makes it a little tricky to find diffused light, which is vital to my style, but with the help of some tree branches I was able to block the sun from hitting my lens and we still got great images that I am proud of.

Photographing families with older children can be a little tricky sometimes because there’s a little less than you can do than with little, little kids. I like to have littles play games and such to keep them interested in the photos. But that means I am working HARD!! With the older kids, it is easier in that you get in and get it done with hardly any fuss. Haha!! I love photographing families with all ages of kiddos, though! All stages of families are important and need to documented.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year! I know I am looking forward to all that 2024 has in store!

January 9, 2024
Winters Family | North Louisiana Family Photographer

The Winters Family

This session took place an hour and a half before sunset, but the unfortunate thing is that it was so cloudy it looked like we had started after sunset. I had to work fast because we were losing light so fast. There was cold front coming in so it was windy, clod, dreary, cloudy, gloomy.. you name it and it was probably that. Little Kinlee had more than photos on her mind. Seeing she is my niece she knows that me usually means her BFF Emma is nearby. All she wanted to do was go see Emma. Haha!!! I had my work cut out for me but thankfully I know a few tricks.

We did all things, played all the games, made it as interesting as possible for an almost two year old. This age is always hard because they are old enough to have a very strong opinion and it can hard to sway them one way or the other.
Bribery works sometimes, but not always. I knew I had to think of ways to make taking photos sound really fun, or better yet, make her even forget we were taking photos and just think we were playing games.

By looking at these photos, I would say it worked. We got some of the sweetest smiles and even some real sass. Haha!! I just love this kid so much. She is such a hoot!

November 28, 2023
Byram Family | North Louisiana Family Photographer

Meet the Byram family. If you’re from the North Louisiana area then you probably know a few of these faces from the medical field. George Byram is a CRNA at Minden Medical and Trey Byram is an Orthopedic Surgeon in Shreveport. How neat is that?

It was such an honor to meet these lovely people and play a part in documenting their family.

It was a hot day and rain was threatening to ruin the session, but we decided to risk it. The rain cleared away and the sun broke through the clouds. It ended up being lovely! I was so glad we didn’t reschedule.

We planned our session together in the flags that the Abshire’s put out each year. These flags are something special and it was wonderful to be able to photograph another family in them.

Thank you Byram family for trusting me to capture your beautiful family!!

August 8, 2023
Justin and Lillian | American Rose Garden Portrait Session | Shreveport Louisiana Photographer

Justin and Lillian

I have photographed these two for the last three years and I couldn’t be more happy about it. Each time they reach out to book, I get more excited. Each session we have together gets better and better. They are so easy to photograph!

This time we wanted a little change. We usually do their session in the Winter. This time we decided to do it in the Spring. Florals, bright green colors. What more could you ask for??

We both, at almost the same time, suggested the American Rose Garden in Shreveport Louisiana for the location. Fate? Destiny? Probably so.

The date of the session came and it was gloomy, raining, storming here and there, so incredibly humid. I ended up getting sick. Justin got called out to work. Ugh. Let’s just reschedule for next weekend.

As the next date approached it was showing rain again. NOOO!!!

Once the day arrived everything cleared up other than it was supposed to be cloudy. I was actually good with this because this location closes at 5 which makes it hard to shoot during golden hour when the sun sets at 7:40 right now. We decided to start at 3:30 and hope for clouds. Clouds were forecasted so I was feeling confident. In all reality, I do know how to shoot in harsh light. It is just usually not my favorite look.

When we arrived at the location, there was not a cloud in the sky. Not a one. AHHH!! It was HOT! It was crazy humid. Oh boy.

Once we started, some clouds started forming and it was constant in and out. Bright sun. Clouds. Harsh light. Soft light. If you are a photographer who shoots in manual mode then you know the difficulty that light like this brings. You are constantly changing your settings.

Thankfully with the Canon R6 I can see what the image will look like before I take it. SOOO nice!

Anyways, back to where we were…

I was nervous about the light. I was nervous about how much we were all sweating. It was a lot! But these are my absolute favorite images we have created together. You can’t even tell it was so hot. You can’t tell it was 5 hours before golden hour. I love these and that is all.

I hope you enjoy them!

June 6, 2023
Abigail is One | Ruston Louisiana Baby Photographer

This little cutie babe graduated her milestone sessions with CDP and it’s a happy/sad day. She’s a little miracle and it has been the greatest joy to document her life.
Abigail is the sweetest baby girl and lights up a room with her sweet, sweet smile. You can’t be around her without smiling with her.

We met at Louisiana Tech University because of their tulip garden. When we arrived the tulips were already gone. NOOO!! However, there were other flowers so we made it work. It was such a beautiful day with perfect weather. We couldn’t have asked for a better day.

I loved every second of this first birthday session and I can’t wait to continue to watch Little Abigail grow and blossom into whatever God has in store for her precious life.

April 18, 2023
Amy and Sebastiaan Maternity Portraits | Minden Louisiana Photographer

Today we are pulling from the vault for this sweet maternity session.

Amy and Sebastiaan came all the way from Europe for these pictures. Ok, fine, that’s not true. They did come from all the way from Europe, but the photos in Louisiana were not orginally part of the plan. You see, Amy is my husband’s sister. Her and Sebastiaan came down for Thanksgiving and while they were here we grabbed some pictures.

They are having their first baby in Feburary and we all can’t wait to see how beautiful she is going to be. And I know they will be amazing parents. Our girls love them both so much. They are moving on in their travels in the US today so of course I’m posting this because we already miss them and they just left. Boo for long distances.

We planned to get these pictures done in the evening but after realizing it was going to rain from noon until…. well, all night, we realized we had to make do with the morning cloudy skies. Within minutes of us starting, the rain came. Thankfully, it was only a drizzle. But it did not help with the chilly temps. We sped through the photos so as to not freeze from being wet and cold.

But in the end, these pictures turned out so well. Thanks for trusting me to capture this sweet time for y’all. We love y’all so much!

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January 25, 2023
Christy | Shreveport Louisiana Maternity Photographer

Beautiful Christy expecting her first baby. This session is pulled from the archives.

Christy is so beautiful and just glowing during this pregnancy. I think that’s something that can be said of so many lovely mamas during their pregnancy. Pregnancy is such a beautiful, wonderful thing. Each time I think it such a miracle. The miracle of a life growing inside you. It always makes me think of how amazing God is. You can see Him so clearly and plainly.

We met for this session out in Rural North Louisiana on a beautiful day and had the most wonderful time together. It is such a privilege to be able to document such incredible times for such amazing people. I never take this time for granted.

December 7, 2022
Sarah’s Branding Portraits | Ruston Louisiana Branding Photographer

My dear friend Sarah from Sarah Ann Photography in East TN and I had the privilege to meet up in Ruston Louisiana for a branding shoot swap. This was seriously so much fun!! We met through instagram and quickly realized we both had very similar interests. We both are photographers with very similar styles. We both love health and fitness. We both enjoy running. We are both Katelyn James fans (IYKYK) AND our birthdays are only days apart. We are basically the same person. Well, she is the more outgoing one while I am the less outgoing one. Haha! But nevertheless, we knew we had to meet in real life.

She came to Louisiana for meeting our church was having and we officially were able to meet each other. Then she came back to photograph a wedding that I was able to second shoot for her and we squeezed this branding shoot in. Funny enough, a few weeks later we went to VA and made a pit stop in TN to say hi. She is such a genuine person and friend that I am so thankful I was able to meet. It amazes me how God can bring people into your life seemingly so randomly, yet it’s like you have known each other your entire life. Sarah is this way. We haven’t really known each other very long but I tell you, you wouldn’t know it.

For this branding session we met up at Railway coffee in Ruston Louisiana. This was my first time to visit and little did I know it is owned by John Luke Robertson from Duck Dynasty. What is even crazier is that he came there while we were there. WHAAT?!?! I’m not too head over heels for famous people, but it was kind of cool!

After the coffee shop we went to a beautiful home in Ruston and sweated like crazy to get these beautiful outdoor images. It was worth it though!

We had the best time together and I can’t wait to do something like this again!

October 28, 2022