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Bethany Chase | Rochester, NY Wedding Photographer

I met Katie’s family during one of my holiday mini-session days this past winter, and happily, I will be seeing more of them since I will also be photographing Katie’s sister’s wedding next year.  Katie and Andrew’s wedding will always be memorable to me because in order for me to take photos of Andrew seeing […]

May 19, 2012

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Bethany Chase Photography | Rochester, NY Newborn Photographer

What a precious little girl she was.  We took lots of snack breaks, but she kept falling right back asleep again.  The ring she is holding in the last picture is her great-grandmother’s engagement ring–and her great-grandmother is the one she is named after.  I love meaningful images.

May 18, 2012

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Bethany Chase | Rochester, NY Children’s Photographer

This momma is getting to be an expert on dressing her kids for my sessions.  I love when they show up and I open up the van door and see these perfectly coordinated, but not too matchy children–and then they bring me coffee and a bagel to top it with a cherry.  You don’t get […]

May 17, 2012

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Bethany Chase Photography | Rochester, NY Lifestyle Family Photographer

First of my mini-sessions for the day–this family drove a long way for the session, and I always appreciate a client who will do that.  I feel valued, for sure.  We had the park all to ourselves–little did I know hundreds of people would be showing up in just a little bit for some area […]

May 16, 2012

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Bethany Chase | Rochester, NY Children’s Photographer

I love character.  And if there’s one thing handsome Mr. Leo has, it’s character.  This mini-session was a fast paced, fun filled adventure.  One big boy full of energy and one little boy full of nothing but sweetness.

May 11, 2012

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Bethany Chase | Rochester, NY Mini-Session Photographer

I met Shannon eight years ago when I first started teaching.  Now, into my second career (though the first was pretty short lived), it’s so nice knowing that people from my past entrust me with such an important thing in the present.  Helping to remember these times before they are gone.  Shannon’s oldest son is […]

May 9, 2012

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Bethany Chase | Rochester, NY Mini-Session Photographer

He was thankfully not too old for bubbles, he smiled a shy smile nearly the entire fifteen minutes and he just came to hang out.  He was my only mini-session with one subject, so I just followed him around and waited for the right moments.  Probably the only session that I didn’t get sweaty!

May 8, 2012

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Bethany Chase | Rochester, NY Children’s Photographer

A photo session with just one child is such a different pace than any other session–for the most part, with a child this young, we just kind of play and hang out and I snap pictures while they go on their merry way.  Occasionally, I try to set something up, make some silly faces and […]

April 30, 2012

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Bethany Chase | Seneca Lake Vineyard Wedding Photographer

Emily and Kevin were married on Seneca Lake–the sky threatened rain all day, and it poured about an hour before the wedding, but the sky held off for us so that we could do some pictures outside.  After the ceremony, the bride and groom and their families traveled to a couple of wineries to do […]

April 29, 2012

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Bethany Chase | Rochester, NY Lifestyle Family Photographer

Wow.  That pretty much just sums it up.  I award these children the best behaved kids I’ve ever shot.  Seriously, it’s sessions like this that make me fall deeper in love with photography.  I can relate it to once, a few years back, while golfing with James and my father-in-law in Florida.  It was a […]

April 23, 2012

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