About Salina J Photography
Hi! My name is Salina, and I am a photographer working in the Minneapolis/St. Paul and southern Minnesota areas. I enjoy meeting new people, and luckily for me, my profession allows me to do that every week, whether I am photographing a newborn, baby, child, family or creating senior pictures. This blog showcases my recent photography, and will help you get to know me and my style of portraits a little better. I am based out of Northfield, but work on-location throughout the Twin Cities (and beyond) or in my studio in Burnsville. I work with my clients to choose the right locations, times and wardrobe pieces to ensure their portraits are beautiful and true reflections of who they are.
Time flies when you have a baby! Feels like it was just yesterday I photographed miss Avery when she was just a brand new life on earth. Now she’s three months old and a smiley, strong little girl. Doesn’t she have incredible blue eyes? Just like her sisters. Speaking of sisters, the oldest daughter was in school while I photographed Avery, but middle sister Bailey gave me some sweet grins while the baby was fed. She’s got the most darling curls!
I had the pleasure of photographing Kera and Andy’s engagement portraits a few weeks ago at the Heart of the City in Burnsville. Kera and Andy are having a warm-weather destination wedding in January but wanted portraits done in their hometown before the big day. Andy’s children also came along and joined in for some family photographs, as well as some of just the kids.
This session was so much fun (the last shot of the night – last here in the blog post, as well – I’m pretty sure we were all cracking up because it was almost completely dark out and I had a camera in their face as they leaned in for a kiss. Not exactly the most romantic moment, but they made it look natural)! After the sun went down we took a little break and then came back for some more dramatically-lit night time shots. I told Kera and Andy later that my favorite thing about so many of their images was the way they looked at each other – their love came through loud and clear.
October in Minnesota is always a busy time for photographers, because Mother Nature gives us a spectacular backdrop to shoot against with the brilliantly-colored fall leaves. I have been having so much fun at sessions, meeting with clients, and getting galleries and orders ready I haven’t had much time to blog my sessions! I will have more this week to share of my incredible clients’ portraits.
Katie is a senior at Northfield High School and has been applying to an impressive list of colleges. I wish her the best of luck as she completes her last year of high school and gets ready to head off to higher learning, wherever that may be. Our session was great, we had excellent, glowy, light that just lit the trees up, and Katie has a fabulous smile that I think was even brighter.
The adorable Miss Emma, in a soybean field with the sunset behind her, and against the dusky, purple sky in the other direction. Thanks for being so much fun to photograph!
I debated doing some Photoshop magic in the portrait with the cables (or electrical lines? I’m not exactly sure what they are) behind her, but after seeing one with them visible and one with them gone, I preferred them in.
