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Bethany Chase | Rochester, NY Family Photographer

Earlier this month, I had many outdoor family sessions scheduled.  This, of course, is a very risky thing when you live in Rochester, NY.  I was just reading an article the other day posted on one of my friend’s facebook page on the topic of snow.  At this point last year (this was about a […]

December 14, 2011

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First Memories

 Though I don’t have a picture of the actual tree, the very first memory that we will always have of re-moving into our house is putting up our Christmas tree together.  With nothing else in the house.  Just a sparkly Christmas tree.  And the four of us.   Then we went to Wegmans and ate […]

December 14, 2011

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Bethany Chase | Rochester, NY Lifestyle Family Photographer

Last month, I had the opportunity to shoot my first session ever at the home of a client.  I have to admit, I was a little tentative about it.  I was worried that there might not be enough natural light.  That I would be uncomfortable at someone else’s house.  That we wouldn’t have “enough to […]

December 12, 2011

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Bethany Chase | Rochester, NY Family Mini-Session Photographer

My new neighbors!  This family lives a couple of streets over from our new house.  Hopefully their youngest son and my oldest will become good friends.  They will be in Kindergarten together next year. . . so I may have found a hey, let’s sign our kids up for the same soccer team! friend. And […]

December 10, 2011

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Repeat.

The pile of unpacked boxes is heaping outside of my garage.  Signs of progress, thankfully.   I keep trying to reorganize them to better stacks, but what’s really the point when they are just going to go out to the road.  No more moving, right??   I am not in love with where I put […]

December 10, 2011

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Bethany Chase | Rochester, NY Family Mini-Session Photographer

I have grown to love photographing this family over the past year.  I have seen them three different times.  And I love that Kyle knows me now and give me hugs freely and I also love watching little man Josiah grow up right in front of my eyes.  Those blue eyes of his are so […]

December 9, 2011

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Bethany Chase | Rochester, NY Family Mini-Session Photographer

I have known Mark nearly my whole life.  We grew up on the same street until I was in middle school.  We used to play together all the time with all the neighborhood kids.  Kickball in our teeny front yard.  Swimming in the little plastic pools.  We were an interesting bunch of kids. . . […]

December 8, 2011

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Finding Normalcy Amidst Mass Chaos

Don’t be fooled. . . I have had blog posts for the past week and will continue to have ones in the next couple of days. . . all of which were written a couple of weeks ago and scheduled to post automatically.  I have not been sitting in front of my computer writing posts […]

December 7, 2011

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Bethany Chase | Rochester, NY Family Mini-Session Photographer

It makes me so happy when my good friends have me take pictures of their family.  So photographing Katie and her family feel more like fun instead of work.  I have grown to love them so much the past couple of years and miss Katie terribly since her son and my son go to preschool […]

December 7, 2011

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Bethany Chase | Rochester, NY Family Mini-Session Photographer

This little guy was all boy.  He ran around and collected rocks the entire session.  Something neither of my boys did, so it’s kind of fun to watch how intriguing rocks can be to someone.   And I don’t know what it is with dimples the past couple of months, but man have I seen […]

December 6, 2011

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