Janessa Taber Studios

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Maternity โ€ข Newborn โ€ข Beauty โ€ข Motherhood
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Janessa Taber is a California-based fine art portrait artist known for crafting cinematic, emotionally rich maternity, motherhood, newborn, and beauty portraits. Her work blends editorial glamour with deep storytelling, transforming family legacy into heirloom artwork. With studios in Northern & Southern California, Janessa has photographed clients across the U.S. Her signature style, luxury gowns

, dramatic lighting, and art-directed compositions, has made her one of the most sought-after portrait artists in California. Janessaโ€™s portraits are recognized for their elegance, craftsmanship, and timelessness. Every session is a fully styled, guided, luxury experience designed to make women feel iconic and unforgettable.

She carried a life beneath her heart, and wore the moment like art. ๐Ÿค
09/09/2026

She carried a life beneath her heart, and wore the moment like art. ๐Ÿค

09/08/2026

It starts with a vision. A little light. A little shadow. A little movement. And thenโ€ฆ the image becomes something else entirely. โœจ

From the studio floor to the final frame, this is the magic behind creating maternity portraits that feel less like photographs and more like art.

Because pregnancy deserves to be remembered as powerful, sensual, feminine, and absolutely extraordinary. ๐ŸคŽ

There is something almost elemental about becoming a mother.Earth beneath her feet. Fire in the light. A new life carrie...
09/08/2026

There is something almost elemental about becoming a mother.

Earth beneath her feet. Fire in the light. A new life carried beneath her heart.

This is motherhood before the first hello, powerful, feminine, sensual, and entirely her own.

A moment of becoming, captured as art. โœจ

I honestly donโ€™t know how I never posted these. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธI was going through some of my galleries and came across this mater...
08/28/2026

I honestly donโ€™t know how I never posted these. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ

I was going through some of my galleries and came across this maternity session, and I literally stopped and thoughtโ€ฆ wait. HOW did these never make it to my page?!

This wet blue look was everything. ๐Ÿ’™ The fabric, her gorgeous hair, that beautiful bellyโ€ฆ the whole session just came together so beautifully.

I love maternity portraits because there is something so incredibly beautiful about this particular season of a womanโ€™s life. Sheโ€™s growing a whole human, her body is changing, and somehow she can feel both completely vulnerable and incredibly powerful at the same time.

And then you blinkโ€ฆ and that baby is here.

So Iโ€™m finally pulling these out of the archives because they deserve to be seen. ๐Ÿค

Better late than never, right? ๐Ÿ˜‚

Some photographs are about far more than what you see in the frame. Theyโ€™re about legacy, love, and the generations that...
08/27/2026

Some photographs are about far more than what you see in the frame. Theyโ€™re about legacy, love, and the generations that came before us. ๐Ÿค

This beautiful Great-Grandma traveled all the way from Wisconsin, and I had the absolute honor of photographing her alongside the beautiful legacy she has created.

Four generations of women. Four chapters of the same story. And one extraordinary reminder that the greatest thing we leave behind isnโ€™t something we can hold, itโ€™s the people we love, the memories we create, and the family that carries our story forward.

What an incredible honor it was to preserve this moment for them.

Four generations. One beautiful legacy.

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For 22 years, I have had the privilege of freezing moments that families can never get back, new beginnings, growing bel...
08/19/2026

For 22 years, I have had the privilege of freezing moments that families can never get back, new beginnings, growing bellies, tiny details, and the kind of love that deserves to live far beyond a single moment.

Photography has never been just a job to me. It is how I preserve what time refuses to hold still.

And photographs like this one remind me exactly why I fell in love with it. ๐Ÿค

Happy World Photography Day. ๐Ÿ“ท

This wasnโ€™t Baileeโ€™s first maternity session, but it was the one she had always dreamed of. ๐ŸคI brought three gowns for h...
08/19/2026

This wasnโ€™t Baileeโ€™s first maternity session, but it was the one she had always dreamed of. ๐Ÿค

I brought three gowns for her to choose from, and the moment she saw this one, she knew. She had always imagined herself wearing a gown like this for her maternity portraits, and just outside Lake Almanor, surrounded by water, wildflowers and towering forest, she finally got exactly what she wanted.

When I sent her the first image, she responded, โ€œNo, youโ€™re joking. I feel so pretty. ๐Ÿ˜ญ I LOVE IT!!!! Thank you so, so much! Iโ€™m so grateful to you!โ€

And that right there is why I do what I do. Every woman deserves to look at herself and feel this beautiful, especially while carrying one of the greatest loves of her life.

Bailee, you absolutely killed it. And this is only the beginning. โœจ

There is a version of you that exists only here, between the woman you have always been and the mother you are becoming....
08/17/2026

There is a version of you that exists only here, between the woman you have always been and the mother you are becoming. She is powerful. She is tender. She is creating life while becoming someone new herself.

This is why maternity portraits matter. Not simply to remember how your body looked, but to remember how extraordinary you were while carrying an entire world within you.

Where the light finds you, weโ€™ll create something unforgettable. โœจ

Now booking maternity sessions in Chester, Lake Almanor and surrounding areas.

Jade, glowing in the quiet magic of the forest as she waits for her sweet baby boy. ๐Ÿ’™โœจ
08/17/2026

Jade, glowing in the quiet magic of the forest as she waits for her sweet baby boy. ๐Ÿ’™โœจ

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Gridley, CA

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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