Megan Shady Photography

02/12/2022

Challenging myself to more “in the moment” shots in 2022… which is hard with Covid. Grabbing my phone for photos has been much easier when we’ve all been in the house. But I did take my camera to belt exams a couple weeks ago.

02/05/2022

A lot of craziness has come out of quarantine. I learned how to do my own gel manicures, I grew several gardens and rescued a lot of dying flowers, we got another cat 🙄…. But I took on something really big.

I always wanted to learn how to decorate cookies but it seemed like a lot of work 🤣🤣 I finally bit the bullet and decided to challenge myself to figure it out. The first year was rough, the cookies were tasty but the decorating was sketchy at best.

As I’ve grown with it and learned more, I’ve gotten more and more requests to take orders. I’ve declined because this was a lot more personal than a business. My husband has been pushing it a lot more lately, as have some friends. I caved and got licensed.

So, now I am Megan Shady Photography AND The Cookie Momster (thank you Carly 🤣🥰). Taking pictures and baking cookies in 2022 🎉

01/16/2022

2021…was my slowest year ever but that was by choice.

We traveled, a lot. We spent 2020 in the house and we were all stir crazy. We took several very long road trips and outside of the insane amount of time spent in the car, I got time to connect with my kids on a whole different level. I’ve always wanted my kids to be comfortable traveling and exploring the world- after we got back from Colorado this fall, my 5 year old has been requesting that instead of a birthday party this year, he wants to go back to Colorado 🥰 We have also battled a lot of illness, my poor 2 year old started daycare this fall and I’m pretty sure has not been there a full week since.

I think a lot of moms reading this can relate but by the end of 2021, I was really struggling to “find myself”, understanding my way through a wife, mom, daughter, fur mom, employee and kind of losing “who I am”… or just not knowing who I am? I lost all of my hobbies and free time in the past couple of years, especially when Covid hit and I had both boys home full-time while working full-time. The past two years have kind of blurred into a never ending Groundhog Day 😳

Where does that leave 2022? I am hoping to get back to more of the basics, especially with my photography, documenting every day life for us and a more “real-life” approach to my business. I will be focusing on seniors, families and kids, backing off of weddings and newborn (though if you ask really nicely, I may reconsider 😉). I’ll be running fall mini sessions again this year, they are my absolute favorite. I’m not against shooting in the snow unless it’s below freezing, both for my cameras sake and my appendages 🤣 but I do still work out of the studio and it’s heated.

Here’s to a safe, warm and relatively sane 2022 🎉

11/22/2021

11/22/2021

I love doing family photos, especially when it's my own

11/26/2020

Thanksgiving 2020 looks different from past years. Typically, we do a big lunch, family photos and then go to the Festival of Trees and Lights. This year, we are just having a regular dinner (on nicer plates) and watching Disney+... but I did kind of transform our bedroom and took some Christmas photos of our boys.

Stay safe everyone!

11/15/2020

🎄🎄Christmas mini sessions! $100🎄🎄

Doing things a little differently this year- I really wanted to do my milk and cookie sessions but Covid 🤷🏻‍♀️

These are weekends, in-studio. Message me for details!

11/01/2020

{Fukuda Family}

10/25/2020

My mom wanted to do family photos this weekend, which as the photographer, is a bit of a challenge to take them and be in them 🤣 Amazon to the rescue with a tripod and remote. I bribed (forced) my husband out in the cold for a trial run. Also, it was MUCH colder when we did our family photos.

10/25/2020

Today was FREEZING yet gorgeous to go out and shoot

10/21/2020

10.17.2020

More sneak peeks to come!