Small Town Living As A Lifestyle Photographer

I've grown up and lived in the same small town for almost all of life.  I did move away right after high school thinking I needed out of this nothing to do little town.  When I first moved back it was because of circumstance but quickly realized it was because this where I belonged.  I love Madison, Ohio and have started my own small business right where my roots began.  When I started Serendipity Photography 3 short years ago I had no idea how fast word would spread and I watched the calendar fill up quickly.  About 18 months ago I got laid off from my job of 16years, a job I enjoyed and loved but none the less not as much as I love photography.   I've been snapping photo's since I have been a child and the passion only grew more as I became an adult, and I was already taking photo's on the side for family and friends. So the decision was made to go full time with my photography.

The best part of this decision is I still get to watch the little ones I watched grow at my previous job.  Maybe not all of them and in some situations watching the once little ones start their new families and raise little ones themselves.  A lot of my first clients were people I graduated with or friends I had meet over the course of living in this wonderful little town and it's surrounding communities.  The word spread and now I am meeting more and more wonderful new clients and those clients are telling other new clients.  However I will always keep a special place in my heart for those initial clients/friends/family that had so much faith in my talent.  

When I take photographs of your new baby, family or even your wedding or special event I don't look at it as snapping as many pictures as I can but freezing special memories that will forever be captured in time.  That is what means the most to me not the posed picture where you are all perfect but those moments when there is total chaos and everyone is doing there own thing.  Let's face it life is not picture perfect and sure we get lucky and get those picture perfect shots but it's always the shots before and after that make me giggle.  I always keep those photos and put them on your disc so you can remember years form now that even why Johnny was running to the left and Sally wouldn't smile unless her finger was up her nose and you look like you've lost your mind and your partner is laughing hysterically because they see their  family as it is,chaotic!   The pictures are wonderful to look at now but in ten years when you have all changed so much and may be in different parts of the country those photo's will remind you of the days gone by and put a smile on your face and those memories stored away in heart and mind will come flooding back! 


Everyday I am in awe of our little community and the people who live in it!  I hope I get to capture your beautiful family, newborn, senior or special event next. 

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