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Brady ’20 {SE MN Senior Portrait Photographer}

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Finally! Finally, I get to post the images from Brady’s session! It was another great one and another afternoon that we for sure thought we’d get rained on, but ended up with great skies from it and were able to end the session just before the rain started. Absolutely love working with this family, I have worked with them for probably 7 years or so. Brady is the second senior session we have done for their family and have also done family photos a couple of times as well.


Congratulations, Brady!

Senior boy with brown hair standing in field with sunset
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JLee’20 {SE MN Senior Portrait Photographer}

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Sharing a few images from JLee’s senior portrait session from last fall. This girl . . . she has style, a lover of all things vintage, an amazing smile, and she is just so sweet JLee did an exclusive session that we split into 3 different days. We did some photos in the studio and also head out to Ironwood Springs Christian Ranch for the outdoor portion of her session. So much fun and such a beautiful location.


JLee, whatever you do in life I KNOW it will be amazing and you will bring life and light to whoever you’re around, you are seriously a breath of fresh air.

senior girl with violin
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Lucas ’20 {SE MN Senior Farm Portrait Session}

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I really truly could not decide what to choose to share from Lucas’s senior session. Lucas knew exactly what he wanted from poses to locations, he made our job easy. I think that senior portraits should totally reflect who you are in the moment and what you love. If you are trying to figure out what to wear for your senior pictures, go for what you feel comfortable in. Whatever feels like “you”. Add the places and things that you enjoy whether sports, hobbies or even farm equipment. And that’s just what Lucas did.

We split his exclusive senior session into 2 days. Both days it looked like it would rain but we went with it and got some amazing skies. However, the second night when we did the photos with his tractors and truck, the sky and weather changed so much that night. It was awesome as it gave us so much variety. We went from blue cloudy skies to the sun being out to an amazing sunset as well.

The first night we did a few studio photos and then we went out to one of their soybean fields and then over to his family’s property that had a bunch of old buildings that they have plans to tear down but are a photographer’s dream and made for the perfect rustic backgrounds. I should have taken some plain building photos to make some backdrops of as I absolutely loved the buildings. There was also a cornfield across the road, and anyone who knows Lucas, you know the silly outtake photo of him in the corn is so him and if you look closely you can see his youngest brother in the frame as well. I had thought of photoshopping him out, but it was just too cute and such a great memory.

For Lucas’s second part of his session, he had picked out a gravel road with the windmills, corn, and the sun setting behind. Such an awesome spot. And making it even better, all the changes in the weather we had that. The evening ended up giving us so many different and beautiful skies. It was so hot, crazy humid, cloudy, windy, then it rained a little, and then the sun came out just before sunset. It was perfect! We also were able to get some family photos, but I will have to share another time.

Congratulations, Lucas! Thanks for choosing us to capture these memories for you and your family.

blonde senior farm boy leaning on tin shed
senior boy portrait in MN cornfield
senior boy with bow and arrow with sky behind
senior boy in plaid with john deere tractor on minnesota gravel road
senior boy with wiuth gun over shoulders on gravel with road with sun setting behind
senior boy leaning on truck with beautiful sunset

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Happy Birthday {SE MN Senior Portrait Photographer}

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Wishing my cousins a happy 18th birthday, today. You came into this world early as fighters each weighing 2 lbs and under, spending the first few months in the hospital and now you are turning 18 and are continuing to show your strength and your resilience graduating from high school during a global pandemic. Such great stories and life lessons that you will be able to tell to your grand-kids, and you’re just getting started!

Behind you, all the memories. Before you, all your dreams, Around you, all who love you. Within you, all you need. Your strength is truly inspiring. Be proud and stand tall as you take this next step in your journey of life.

Happy Birthday, Casey, Brandt, and Jacob, and congratulations on your graduation!

Triplet Sibling outdoors on blue shirts
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Yard Signs {SE MN Portrait Photographer}

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Parents and the seniors in the Class of 2020, as well as those students in spring sports, are feeling the sting of this pandemic in a harsh way. While many people are missing out on major events right now, we decided to come up with a way people can show their support. We created these yard signs as a way to boost our grads and spring athletes!

You can celebrate your senior or spring athlete by purchasing a custom 24″x18″ yard sign with a stake and setting up a time to pick them up with no contact, you let me know when you are coming and I will set it outside on our table at my house for you to grab.

They are customizable to school and sport and can be generic with just school colors and your mascot or you can send a PERSONAL photo to use (can not be a professional photo) or if you’ve had your photos done with Photography by Kari, we can add one of those.

As I was getting this post together, I thought I could also make designs for honor healthcare workers, truckers, grocery workers, teachers, first responders, etc. Just let me know and I can make a design.

Click here to order: https://photographybykari.com/store/index.php…

First sign – $25 plus MN and Fillmore county sales tax. 2 or 3 of the same design – $20 each plus MN and Fillmore county sales tax.. 4 or more of the same design – $15 each plus MN and Fillmore county sales tax.


***Please order by April 15, 2020. Fulfillment of orders is contingent upon the printer continuing to produce signs. If we are unable to fill any orders full refunds will be made immediately.***

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Photography by Kari specializes in custom portraiture of newborn, family, children sports team banners, dog, and high school seniors in Spring Valley, MN, and surrounding Southeast Minnesota areas.

Areas, including, but not limited to, Rochester, Preston, Chatfield, Stewartville, Grand Meadow, LeRoy, Ostrander, Kasson, Hayfield, Plainview, St. Charles and Pine Island.

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