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Miley ~Senior Portrait Session

October 4, 2024 0 Photography, Uncategorized

I almost wanted to title this session “110 Reasons to Book as Session at Golden Hour” You can NOT get colors like these at any other time of the day. This was the first session of the year that really felt like fall! Everything was so golden and it was a perfect cool night! Miley came out to our farm…literally one of my favorite spot to photograph (have you noticed?). I was googly eyed over these and have been dying to finish editing so I could post them! I dream of these kinds of colors ! ✨✨✨ ALSO my seniors this year have been KILLING it!

Here’s to an insanely busy fall full of more beautiful session like this one… Cheers 🥂🥂

Thanks for taggin’ along,

~Emilia Joy

Ellie Kate

September 27, 2024 0 Photography, Uncategorized

I have dreamed of doing a session like this ever since I bought this vintage row boat back in January. When I suggested the idea to my sweet friend Ellie Kate she was so ready for it! I spent the afternoon roaming our fields on the farm for flowers and picked buckets and buckets full. I was a little nervous about how it was going to turn out but once I saw the boat filled with flowers I knew it was going to be great!

It was the perfect summer evening and God even sent us a beautiful sunset and literally made all my dreams come true for how I envisioned this session! I mean how can it get better than this, friends, wildflowers, a summer sunset and magical golden light!

As always, thanks for taggin’ along!

~Emilia Joy

Mama + Me~ Lifestyle Session

June 6, 2024 0 Photography, Uncategorized

A few weeks ago I got to do a really fun Mama + Me session. We photographers call these lifestyle sessions. For those of you who don’t know what this means, a lifestyle session is a laid back photography experience, where I come in and take photos of you and your family doing a fun activity. There’s a lot less posing and a lot less “look here and smile”. I focus more on capturing genuine emotions and interactions that happen naturally. None of that making goofy noises from behind my camera because for the most part I want your family to be totally absorbed in the moment.

If you have really little kids choosing a lifestyle session over a typical session is a great option. Choosing an activity that you love to do as a family is such a fun way to make a memory and to keep your littles happy. Not only will your kids “tolerate” this, it’s actually something that your kids will get really excited about! This option helps to keep the kids entertained, focused, smiling, happy and it provides a great way for me to capture the genuine interactions of your family.

When it comes to doing a lifestyle session there’s so many options of fun things to do! Have a campfire and smores together, get giant ice cream cones and eat them together, have a water balloon fight, eat watermelon, bake cookies together, or explore a park. There are really endless options and what makes it so special is that YOU choose what would be fun for your family!

If your family is not a “smile at the camera and give each other big hugs” kinda family, or if your kids are just too stir crazy for a typical photo session I really recommend talking to me about a lifestyle session. It’s a perfect way to capture YOUR family personality on camera and to have photos to hang on the wall forever!

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Jenna + Rex ~ Kuttawa, Kentucky

May 28, 2024 0 Photography, Uncategorized

At the beginning of this year I bought a vintage boat. Let’s just say I was SUPER excited about it! I’ve dreamed for years of having a cool boat to use for a couples photo session and now I finally had it, but then it was winter and cold and all the trees were dead 😂 (not ideal for a beautiful boat session) I pulled the boat out once in the winter and my nieces and sister almost got blown away in the wind, oops. So I waited and waited for spring and I finally got to do a few session with some sweet kids but I was still waiting for the perfect couple.

Two weeks ago I found the perfect couple and I finally got to do this dreamy session! Looking through the gallery for me feels magical and dreamy like a scene in a movie. Needless to say, I can’t wait to pull the boat out again for a session. Kuttawa Ky, was the perfect little lakeside town to do this dreamy session in, I can’t wait to go back!

As always, thanks for tagging along!

~Emilia Joy

Caleb + Leah’s Wedding ~ Georgetown Tx,

Sticky Post February 9, 2024 0 Photography, Uncategorized

Wow this wedding was such an honor and privilege to be a part of!

From beginning to end it was filled with joy and tears that were such a testimony to how much Caleb and Leah are loved by the people around them. Caleb and Leah are goofy and wild and they care very deeply for the needs of others and love the people around them so well! I’ve known both Caleb and Leah for several years and so it was extra special to be a part of a wedding of friends and to spend the day with a bridal party full of all my friends too. This day was full of laughter and joy and a decent bit of tears. Tears make it extra special to though.

Everything about this wedding went so well and we had very few hiccups. And somehow I came back with over 5,000 images 😂🤪 YIKES. I can’t wait to see how the gallery tells the story of their day!

I actually teared up when I was looking through the sneak peek gallery. There was a lot of lead up to this wedding, the %80 chance of rain that was predicted for the day, me traveling to Texas with all my gear (double, triple and quadruple checking to make sure I had everything), plus this being the first time I’ve ever shot a wedding in a town square, all of this made looking through the sneak peek gallery seem like a flood of answered prayers. We were blessed with perfect weather and an almost flawless ceremony and a timeline that went so smoothly thanks to lots of helping hands.

For now here’s a little peek into Caleb and Leah’s wedding day!

And as always, thanks for taggin’ along

~Emilia Joy

PS: The last two pictures are a picture of me with the bride and groom and a picture of the amazing video team with us too! Bechler Video is in the process of making an epic video that I can’t wait to see!

The Biggers Family

January 9, 2024 0 Uncategorized

This is part two of me trying to be more consistent with blogging 😂 We shall see how long this last.

The Biggers Family came out to the farm for a fall session, they were the sweetest and most loving family I’ve worked with in a while. They were up for all of the fun and all of the prompts. They had so much fun with each other and that’s what makes me love their gallery so much.

It’s hard to emphasize enough how important it is that you come to your session ready to play games and have fun! The photos you will love the most are the ones of you and your kids laughing and playing with each other. If you come expecting to just pose and get it over with you’ll miss out on a fun memory and you make the whole time rushed and unexciting. Come prepared to make memories, to laugh, to enjoy the time you’ll spend together. Change your mindset from “Let’s get this over with” to “Let’s make this a super fun memory.” You’ll be surprised at how well this will make your session go and how much more you will love all of your images.

Thanks for tagging along!

~Emilia Joy

Faith ~ Senior Session

September 28, 2023 0 Uncategorized

I had so much fun meeting Faith and doing her senior pictures! She’s seriously so much fun and I felt like I had a new friend by the time she left. She told me “That was the first time I ever enjoyed getting my photo taken.” That’s the best thing I could ever hear as a photographer!

We laughed a lot, as usual, and spent the time wandering around our farm and catching all the glowy light. Our fields are perfection right now and they give the dreamiest look to the images!

Faith has big plans and I’m excited to see where the Lord is going to lead her in the next phase of her life!

Thanks for tagging along!

~Emilia Joy

Dillan~ Senior Session

September 28, 2023 0 Uncategorized

This session was so stinking pretty! I’m such a huge fan of people wearing white to their sessions…it’s so timeless and classic! I love the way all of these pictures just pop off the screen. Yikes…can you tell these make me super super happy!

Dillian was so sweet and had the most stunning smile! It’s always so fun to watch my clients get more and more comfortable in front of the camera! My favorite way to make people laugh is by telling them to make themselves laugh…it always works 🙃 I’m not a funny person in general so I got do what it takes to make people laugh!

Thanks for tagging along!

~Emilia Joy 🙃

Harmony~ Senior Session

September 12, 2023 0 Photography, Uncategorized

I’ve known Harmony for as long as she’s been alive! Our families have been friends…well forever practically. For a long time she was my friends younger sister but now she’s graduated and it blows my mind. How is life going by so fast!

Harmony texted me asking about doing her senior session at sunrise, and I was all for it! She’s only the second person to brave a sunrise shoot with me, and it was so worth it! There’s something so chill and peaceful about early mornings, fog and sunrises.

I’ve had such a blast with my senior girls this past year and I’m super excited for all the 2024 seniors coming my way!

As always, thanks for tagging along!

~Emilia Joy

Josh and Emily

January 31, 2023 0 Photography, Uncategorized

Josh and Emily were so sweet and so fun! They met me at my favorite childhood hiking spot, in Southern Illinois, for a post wedding photo session. This day was a dream come true for me! For years I’ve wanted to do a session at the spot but it just never worked out! I’m thankful for Emily and Josh who braved the cold January day. It ended up being super cloudy and super windy but we still got some epic portraits…I guess we all had a dream come true! was so soooo pleased with all of the portraits from this session! Emilys veil made for some excitement in the wind but gave us some beautiful portraits! It was a fun adventure and %100 worth the cold!!

Thanks for tagging along!
~Emilia Joy

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