Whitfield | Family Photographer Hampton Roads

• June 21st, 2016 •

Can this family GET any cuter?!?! I had so much photographing CJ’s first birthday portraits as well as their family portraits. They haven’t done family portraits yet AND mom and dad hadn’t done any portraits together ever, so this was an extra special shoot for them. And when I say they ROCKED this session, I meant it! Denise and Christopher are a stunning couple and made my job so easy! The light was perfect and CJ was such a little model and his adorable smile melted my heart! I would have shot for another hour if it hadn’t gotten dark and chilly.

The images that resulted from this shoot are STUNNING! Denise cried when she saw them and honestly, that is one of the favorite parts of my job. I know it sounds terrible, “I like making my clients cry” but when they are crying tears of joy because they have never had such beautiful images of themselves… well, I might have shed a tear or two myself!

Denise and Christopher, thank you so much for allowing me to capture your family. It truly was an honor and I can’t wait for our next session!

Welcome Emmanuel | Newborn Photographer Virginia Beach

• June 20th, 2016 •

What can be better than three amazing boys? FOUR amazing boys! Welcome baby Emmanuel to the beautiful Lopez family. I was so very excited to photograph this adorable, chubby little guy! He was such a trooper during our session and was a great little model! His big brothers can’t wait for him to grow up a little more… I see lots of backyard wrestling matches and football games in their future! Thank you Orlyn and and Alejandro for allowing me to spend time with your little guy and photograph your family. It is such an honor too capture these moments and I hope we lots of years of family portraits in our future!

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Spring Adventures 2016 | Children Photographer Hampton Raods

• June 13th, 2016 •

My annual Spring Adventures sessions are always so much fun! This year was our fourth year and the cuteness was on overload! I love all my little woodland fairies and adventuresome boys.

During this session, you might see my beautiful little clients with singing with birds, jumping with frogs, smelling the flowers and going on adventures and even fishing!

We do this session every year so if you missed it this year, send me your e-mail and I will make sure you aren’t left out next year!

Ring Dance Morgan | High School Portraits Virginia Beach

• May 24th, 2016 •

It is ALWAYS an honor to photograph the Myers family. Recently, I was honored to photograph the beautiful Morgan for her Junior Ring Dance, with her handsome date Brandon.

I have been photographing Morgan for years, I think she was in elementary school when we began, and this summer we will be scheduling her SENIOR PORTRAITS!

I have been so blessed by the Myers family and to see Morgan all grown up and so beautiful, well it’s like seeing my own daughter growing up. Once so insecure and camera shy, it is so nice to see her, not just comfortable in her own skin, but ROCKING who she is becoming!

I love my job and people like the Myers family are a big reason why! Check out Morgan and Brandon’s pictures and then read below a testimony from Morgan’s mom Christy.

SENIOR PICTURES are coming up for Morgan and I can’t believe its already time to plan for this moment! Wow, so thankful one more of my kids making moves towards her dreams.
With that said I need to brag about our family photographer Devon who owns Devon Shanor Photography.
She has been there for our family’s every move; family pictures when we started over from divorce, back to school pictures, becoming sessions, ring dance, Prom, Senior pictures, Santa pictures on the beach every year, and we are currently working a cake bash for my 40th birthday… you name it she can do it and make it happen. We would be lost without Devon.
She knows my kids inside and out when it comes to pictures, she know my divas, my shy kid, my I don’t want to do this kid and she works with them all and makes it fun every time.
If you have a senior coming up Devon should be your FIRST Choice. I get this question a lot “Is she expensive?” Well I’m gonna answer that “NO SHE ISNT!” Some may think so, BUT I will say this the people that do are used to places like Olan Mills, Walmart, Portrait Innovations, etc where you have to go to a studio, get a few pre-made backdrops, set poses and prices. With Devon we get to pick location (and even poses if we want to do something crazy!) we’ve had so many differnt nature locations; just when I think we’ve done them all we find somewhere new! We’ve done the beach, Norfolk Pagoda, fields, and state parks… the possibilities are endless.
My other reason for choosing Devon, and only her, is I’ve personally have two very bad experiences with going to another photographer. one of them being for senior pictures for my daughter Katie. We hired a cheaper person for her senior pictures, thinking maybe we would get some amazing portraits art a cheaper price. Well, let me just say um…. it was awful! The pictures were blurry, the poses were horrible, she was a mom with a camera nothing more! Needless to say, we begged Devon to fit Katie in and we had them done right. Devon was wonderful about the whole thing. She did an amazing job and while I spent more than I wanted, I learned that I will never again trust anyone with my families memories except Devon.
*Side note: We had a house fire in 2014, the year my daughter graduated and we lost all of our flash drives (digital images) from every one of our sessions. Yes all of them, including those senior pictures. When I called Devon Shanor Photography crying she reminded me all my images were safe she had them all. I lost nothing and wasn’t out all the money for pictures that I could never replace. Well, I was out all of the images I had taken BEFORE Devon, the ones from Walmart and Portrait innovations, they were burned up in the fire and I had no way to replace them. But I didn’t lose the last 10 years of my family growing.
ALL OF THIS TO SAY THANK YOU MY FRIEND WE LOVE YOU!!!!! SENIORS THIS IS THE LIFE PHOTOGRAPHER YOU WANT TO SAVE YOUR MEMORIES!

Four Sessions in ONE! | Family Portrait Photographer Virginia Beach

• April 26th, 2016 •

When your anniversary coincides with your baby’s first birthday, you are pregnant and needing maternity portraits, and it’s been awhile since you did family portraits, do you need to book multiple sessions? Not with me you don’t. We can do them all at one and kill four birds with one stone!

When Cheyla called inquiring about anniversary/maternity portraits and little Rico needed his first year portraits, I said “Why not do them at the same time? And heck, if the family can come, we’ll do some family portraits too!”

We had such a blast and Cheyla is a ROCK STAR as it was COLD out! Spring kept coming and then leaving… 70 degrees one day and then 45 the next. We had already rescheduled once for wind and rain, and we didn’t want to do it again. So Cheyla braved the cold again! (Her last maternity portraits were in the SNOW!)

We had a great time in the park capturing the family portraits ( we missed big brother Angel but were happy to have Cheyla’s brother Chris there!) Prince Rico had a blast at the park celebrating turning one and was such a ham for the camera. We finished at the park with some romantic maternity portraits; I love capturing Cheyla and Eddie- their love is so genuine and beautiful!

W left the park to capture a few more portraits in the studio and to photograph his cake smash! He loved the portraits but wasn’t too happy about the cake! He had a few bites and then just wanted to be done and kept getting mad at us for smearing icing in on him. I cannot wait to photograph his baby sister when she arrives!

Welcome Shiloh | Newborn Photographer Virginia Beach

• April 4th, 2016 •

She’s HERE… Welcome baby Shiloh! Even though she was born in December, for me, she was my New Year’s baby! Why? Well- she was my first client of the new year! What a way to start 2016!

Shiloh has been a member of the Devon Shanor Photography family for years… as I have been photographing her mommy and daddy before I was even in business! Jared and Haley are wonderful friends and clients and they have trusted me for years to capture their memories! We’ve gone from their engagement to their wedding, from professional headshots to maternity portraits! We have walked through many ups and downs together and I was very excited to hear that they welcomed little Shiloh just after Christmas!

Shiloh is such a perfect little girl. I wanted to cuddle her as much as photograph her during her session! She’s blessed with such wonderful parents and extended family and I can’t wait to see her grow into the amazing little girl she is destined to become.

Thanks Jared and Haley for sharing her with me. She is such a beautiful little lady and I am so excited to see your little family growing!

Tough Siblings | Virginia Beach Photographer

• March 11th, 2016 •

Meet Kenneth, Hunter and Ethan… three tough brothers you don’t want to mess with! Last year, Kenny began wrestling at Great Neck Middle school with my son Logan. Our families became friends and we have enjoyed watching Kenny move onto high school and continuing to excel in the sport. So I wasn’t surprised when I heard his little brothers followed in his footsteps and began wrestling too! Today they all wrestle with the Great Neck Wrestling Club in Virginia Beach. Since it’s not often you find three brothers all excited about the same sport, we wanted to capture all of them together in some great portraits.

I love these boys and they kept me laughing through the whole session. Can’t wait to see how the next few years mold and change these boys into men!

Thee boys = a FULL house! | Newborn/Family Photographer Virginia Beach

• January 28th, 2016 •

Welcome baby Judah! He joins big brothers Elam and Kenan, making mom and dad some very blessed and tired parents! As Judah was a bit older than most newborns during their session (he was just a month old during his session!) he didn’t do a lot of sleeping. .. so we worked with that and we got to see lots of his beautiful, inquisitive eyes!

If you have ever tried to photograph a two year old and a one month old at the same time, you’ll know we had our work cut out for us! Teenage brother Kenan was a GREAT assistant to me though, helping wrangle Elam and helping me soothe little Judah in between setups! Finally, we were even able to pull off some beautiful family portraits showcasing this loving, amazing, beautiful family!

Melinda and Jeff- thanks for sharing your boys with me. It might have been a hectic session but I am so very pleased with our results and was so blessed to have met you both! May God bless you and grant you sleepy boys and sleep filled nights!

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Happy 80th Birthday Sandy | Virginia Beach Family Portrait Photographer

• November 5th, 2015 •

Sandy is 80 years young and still showing everyone around her how to love life! Her smile and her family wanted to surprise her with a birthday celebration! Her granddaughter Liz serenaded her with some amazing Jazz music and family from all over came to surprise her!

Raschdorf Family | Family Photographer Virginia Beach

• August 4th, 2015 •

I LOVE seeing my families grow! It has been a few years since I photographed Jake and Brittany’s family… and since then they have added Kenzie! So it was such a joy to photograph them again and I have to say, these girls LOVE to model! Usually I have to fight to keep little ones just looking at the camera… with Kenzie and Kira it was hard to get them to STOP posing! Future little models I think for sure! They loved the camera and were SO MUCH FUN to photograph. The next kids I photograph have large shoes to fill!

We had such a blast climbing trees and sand dunes, playing with umbrellas and seashells and enjoying a beautiful sunset. Thanks Jake and Brittany for trusting me again with capturing your beautiful family!

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