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Newborn Boy {Stewartville MN Newborn Portrait Photographer}

This family has been really fun to watch grow. I photographed Mom’s senior portraits when she worked with me as an assistant, baby K’s big brother when he was a baby, and big sister when she was a newborn. Needless to say, this gorgeous family did not disappoint! From the color choices to incorporating their new puppy and Dad’s motorcycle I’m in love with everything about this session.

I love so many of the photos from his session…the smiles, baby k’s eye contact, and the puppy Zeus…. So perfect!

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National Adorable Children and Pawsitively Adorable Contest Winners {SE MN Photographer}

We are proud to announce we had 9 winners in the National portion of the Adorable Children and Pawsitively Adorable contests. The National portion of the contest took place at the lab and was judged by a panel of judges based on quality, appearance, charm, expression, and personality.

In the National Pawsitively Adorable contest…

We had First Place for Me & My Human. They won a $100 Visa gift card.

We had Second Place for Newborns. They won a $75 Visa Gift Card.

We had a Third Place for Dogs. They won a $50 Visa Gift Card.

We had an Honorable Mention for dogs. Super exciting as this is my dog, Maverick. We won a $25 Visa Gift Card.

We had an Honorable Mention in Buddies. They won a $25 Visa Gift Card.

In the National Adorable Children contest…..

We had a Second Place for Bloopers. They won a $75 Visa Gift Card.

We had a Third Place for Bloopers. They won a $50 Visa Gift Card.

We had a Third Place for 13 Months- 2 Years. They won a $50 Visa Gift Card.

We had an Honorable Mention for 9-12 Years. They won a $25 Visa Gift Card.

The lab where these took place is having some website issues, but as soon as we can see the other winners, I will post them here, too. Congratulations, everyone! Thanks for participating and voting! =)

And since we did not do the local portion of the Pawsitively Adorable as it was mostly my assistant’s dogs and family pets, and I had not posted the Pawsitively Adorable images, these are the other images we submitted. So they each received a 16×20 print from their session.

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Trick or Treat {Halloween Dog Portrait Photorapher}

Trick or Treat?!

I typically have always just done a Halloween composite of Maverick or a simple photo with his favorite Wüfers Halloween treats, but this year I decided to also dress him up. His name came from both the mascot at the college I attended and one of my favorite movies, Top Gun, I had to turn him into Top Gun Maverick since the movie came out this year. I got him a bandana from Etsy made out of a flight suit and then got an American flag patch, a talk to me Goose patch, a Top Gun patch, and a Maverick patch to add to it. Then of course had to get him some aviator sunglasses, too.

Happy Halloween from Maverick and all of us at Photography by Kari. Hope your day is full of good times and LOTS of good treats! Also, thanks to my assistant, Gavin, for helping me take Maverick’s Halloween photos after we finished up doing photos for a senior session.

If you are looking for a Southeast MN Dog Photographer be sure to reach out and let me know. We would love to photograph your fur baby or babies.

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Senior Portrait Session {MN Photographer}

Erin’s summer senior portrait session was such fun! Erin is so sweet and gorgeous and also such a kind person. I’m blessed with the people I work with and get to know in this business!!

We started her session thinking we had about an hour or 2 before the rain would start, but Mother Nature down poured on us as we were finishing up our first spot.  So we then headed to the studio to dry off and to do Erin’s indoor senior portraits and then rescheduled her outdoor photos for later in the week. 

I loved that we got to capture her at her grandmother’s home and with her late grandfather’s favorite flowers and with his favorite candy, Dum Dum suckers, too.  The flowers had bloomed the week of her session and looked absolutely perfect for her session.  Interesting how stuff like that works out so perfectly.  ? 

Enjoy some of my favorites from Erin’s senior portrait photo session. 

If you’re ready to book a MN senior portrait session or have any questions, let’s chat! Just complete the contact form and we can start planning your custom senior pictures! For more session info, be sure to visit my WEBSITE.

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2022 Local Adorable Children Contest Winners {SE MN Children Portrait Photographer}

The results are in for the Local Contest!  The results for the National Contest will be in November.

Thanks to everyone who participated and took time to vote in the Adorable Child Contest! 

And here are the  local winners….

Our grand prize winner will receive a standard session with a 5×7 Press Printed Brag Book (value of $405) and a 16×20 print from the session used in the contest (value of $105).

Our grand prize winner is Korben with 102 votes…

And our winners of a 16×20 print (value of $105) from the session used in the contest.

Sadie with 69 votes….

Aribella & Otillie with 39 votes.

Hadley with 38 votes.

Clay with 32 votes.

Hayes with 25 votes.

Khloe with 24 votes.

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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.

Southeast Minnesota based photographer.

specializing in newborn, family, children, and senior photography.

located in sPRING vALLEY, mn

TELEPHONE :: 507.951.0640

E-MAil :: kari@photographybykari.com