{"id":19393,"date":"2017-09-12T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sjanephotographyblog.com\/?p=19393"},"modified":"2017-09-08T16:42:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T21:42:52","slug":"allen-family-annual-family-portraits-summer-decatur-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/?p=19393","title":{"rendered":"| Allen Family | Annual Family Portraits | Summer Decatur, IL |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19554\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0003.jpg\" alt=\"family portraits, family photography, family photographer, decatur il, decatur, illinois, photographer, central il photographer, central illinois photographer, family, siblings, siblings portraits, annual portraits, \" width=\"950\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0003.jpg 950w, https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0003-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0003-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0003-299x199.jpg 299w, https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0003-598x398.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/>Look who&#8217;s up on the blog today! I&#8217;m so excited to share this beautiful family with you. I&#8217;ve had the privilege to photograph Melanie and her girls a few times over the past few years (you can check out last year&#8217;s session <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/?p=18646\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>) and this year we welcomed Chuck and Ethan into the fun.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be missing Melanie this year as we&#8217;ve worked together for the Warrensburg-Latham High School <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/?p=18259\" target=\"_blank\">yearbook<\/a> images for years now but she&#8217;s taken a great Librarian job in another district so I won&#8217;t be seeing as much of her as usual but wish her good luck in the new job.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19555\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0004.jpg\" alt=\"family portraits, family photography, family photographer, decatur il, decatur, illinois, photographer, central il photographer, central illinois photographer, family, siblings, siblings portraits, annual portraits\" width=\"950\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0004.jpg 950w, https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0004-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0004-768x342.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have had so much fun watching Savannah and Sophie grow up so much over the last few years. They have such unique personalities and I always look forward to what we create for them both individually and together. I sort of get excited to think about them flipping through these photos a decade or two from now seeing how much they changed every year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19556\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0005.jpg\" alt=\"family portraits, family photography, family photographer, decatur il, decatur, illinois, photographer, central il photographer, central illinois photographer, family, siblings, siblings portraits, annual portraits\" width=\"950\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0005.jpg 950w, https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0005-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0005-768x355.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And these three were SO sweet together. This may have been the first session I jumped WHILE shooting to get that smile on the left (thank God for image stabilization!). We knew going into the session we&#8217;d have to watch for forced smiles on Ethan so I had to up the silliness just a bit and worked perfectly!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19557\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0006.jpg\" alt=\" family portraits, family photography, family photographer, decatur il, decatur, illinois, photographer, central il photographer, central illinois photographer, family, siblings, siblings portraits, annual portraits\" width=\"950\" height=\"1584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0006.jpg 950w, https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0006-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0006-768x1281.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/07-19393-post\/2017-09-07_0006-614x1024.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, of course, we had to round out the session with some individual combinations. Every family relationship is unique and I love to show not only the whole family but all the little micro relationships too.<\/p>\n<p>I know this will be an exciting year for this family and I cannot wait to see them even more grown up next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look who&#8217;s up on the blog today! I&#8217;m so excited to share this beautiful family with you. I&#8217;ve had the privilege to photograph Melanie and her girls a few times over the past few years (you can check out last year&#8217;s session HERE) and this year we welcomed Chuck and Ethan into the fun. I&#8217;ll &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/?p=19393\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;| Allen Family | Annual Family Portraits | Summer Decatur, IL |&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,74,14,1],"tags":[873,184,101,25,5,181,75,256,135,179,259,606,1260],"class_list":["post-19393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-families","category-sarah-jane-photography","category-uncategorized","tag-annual-portraits","tag-central-il-photographer","tag-central-illinois-photographer","tag-decatur","tag-decatur-il","tag-family","tag-family-photographer","tag-family-photography","tag-family-portraits","tag-illinois","tag-photographer","tag-siblings","tag-siblings-portraits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sjanephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}