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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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Easter {Spring Valey MN Children’s Portrait Photographer}

Welcome spring with with the warmer temps this week and Easter mini sessions! This past weekend we had our first round of Easter mini sessions. How cute are these boys in their Easter outfits? We had so much fun with these 4 boys!

We have our second round of Easter minis on Saturday. We still have some spots left, you can book a spot here: Book Here

Easter portrait of 4 boys

Easter portrait of baby boy iwith paint pallette

Easter portrait of boy in a pink shirt with paint buckets

Easter portrait of boy in a pink shirt painting an egg

Easter portrait of boy holding a paint bucket

Easter portrait of boy in a pink shirt
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Newborn Girl Portraits {Spring Valley MN Newborn Portrait Photography}

You know you’ve been in business awhile when you start photographing babies of seniors you’ve photographed, I think in past year we have photographed 4 or 5 of newborns of our previous high school senior clients. This little one’s Mom was one of the first seniors I photographed after moving into our studio in downtown Spring Valley. Love that we capture all these moments for families.
Introducing Miss S. She was sleepy and an absolute joy to photograph. Her newborn portrait session was flawless. Mom and Dad were just swooning over her. So sweet!

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Newborn Girl {NE IA Newborn Portrait Photographer}

We had maternity photos scheduled for this princess’s parents but she decided to make her entrance into the world a few weeks early. We had to hold off her session a bit while she was in the hospital and then had to reschedule two times due to the snowstorms we had in February. But when she came into the studio for her session she was so sweet and calm. She rocked her session and did every pose we tried with her. Can’t wait to see her again at her 3-month session of her Watch Me Grow session.

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3-Month Old Boy {Rochester MN Childrens Portrait Blog}

And just like that, this happy little man is 3 months old! Mr A was in to see us for his 3-month Watch Me Grow session, I feel like it was just yesterday that he was in the studio for his newborn session- my how fast these little ones grow! He is just the sweetest little man and he has the most amazing blue eyes! I LOVE all the faces he gave us. So cute!

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Newborn Girl {Stewartville MN Newborn Portrait Photography}

Photographing this beautiful new family of 5 was a pleasure. I’ve been friends with Steph since grade-school (we won’t discuss how long ago that was) and Jake since college when we lived on the same floor in the dorms. And it’s always special to see how families grow and flourish, but especially so when friends give you the honor to capture these moments for them.

Their new baby girl certainly has a mind of her own and taking sleeping baby pictures was not on her to-do list. No worries, though, not all babies sleep during their sessions, we did try for several hours to get her to settle. In the end, we ended up wrapping her for most of the session as that was how she felt comfy. Love the wraps and the colors. So beautiful! And since we’ve had so much snow this year, we had to do a photo with the snowman hat, too.

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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