Shannon Lutkins Photography

11/12/2024

11/08/2024

✨ "In Front of the lens and a bit out of my comfort zone!" ✨

As a photographer, I’m always focused on capturing your best angles and stories. But yesterday, I forced myself to step in front of the camera myself with a fresh headshot update! 📸

I may be more comfortable behind the lens, but I wanted to show a bit more of myself and the face behind the camera. If you’ve been thinking about updating your own photos (even if you’re camera shy like me!), let’s make it happen together. I promise to make it fun and relaxed – because I get it!

Here’s to capturing all our special moments, one photo at a time. 📷💫

11/07/2024

Part time I teach bungee fitness at SOAR Bungee Fitness in D’Iberville. I was both in the photos and took the photos thanks to my amazing associate photographer Kayla with Kayla Rashelle Photography. I’ll share the results sometime soon…. after I get out of this mountain of editing I have been fortunate enough to land under 😂

(I’m back right)

Check us out! We aren’t always sweaty and a hot mess! Finally got our head shots done! Thank you Kayla, Megan, and Shannon lutkins photography!
Hopefully Shannon can get these edited soon! 🩷

11/01/2024

Now booking Santa Sessions! Don't miss out. This is the actual set.

https://book.usesession.com/s/H3KzmIh2R

If you have done Santa photos with me please comment a testimonial of your experience.

Please do this small business a favor and share! THANK YOU!

11/01/2024

This past Saturday with Emily and Blake was a wedding to remember. Emily and Blake are just the sweetest. Congratulations you two!

I can not wait to share with you all the amazing florals done by her super talented mother. The food also done by her catering company Highly Favored Catering. I will recommend them every single time.

Also here a few of Emily's bridal photos that I finally get to share! Isn't she just lovely?!

11/01/2024

Truth is…Yesterday I was editing Santa photos and listening to Christmas music. For the next 28 days I’ll listen to both Christmas and standard music. Come December 1 only Christmas music exists for me. It brings me such a sense of calm.

When do you start listening?

10/31/2024

They are delivered! This years set photographed so perfectly. I hope you love them too.

I have another session on 11/24. Dont miss out! https://book.usesession.com/s/H3KzmIh2R

10/31/2024

This is fabulous!

10/23/2024

Now booking for Santa in November

10/23/2024

Reposting because it appears it didn't post!

Congratulations Stacie. You won a $50 credit with Shannon Lutkins Photography :)

10/23/2024

Well now I have tears in my eyes at 615am.

This is a good read.

Believe in Santa Claus
I remember my first Christmas adventure with Grandma. I was just a kid. I remember tearing across town on my bike to visit her on the day my big sister dropped the bomb: "There is no Santa Claus," she jeered. "Even dummies know that!"
My Grandma was not the gushy kind, never had been. I fled to her that day because I knew she would be straight with me. I knew Grandma always told the truth, and I knew that the truth always went down a whole lot easier when swallowed with one of her "world-famous" cinnamon buns. I knew they were world-famous, because Grandma said so. It had to be true.
Grandma was home, and the buns were still warm. Between bites, I told her everything. She was ready for me. "No Santa Claus?" she snorted.... "Ridiculous! Don't believe it. That rumor has been going around for years, and it makes me mad, plain mad!! Now, put on your coat, and let's go."
"Go? Go where, Grandma?" I asked. I hadn't even finished my second world-famous cinnamon bun. "Where" turned out to be Kerby's General Store, the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors, Grandma handed me ten dollars.
That was a bundle in those days. "Take this money," she said, "and buy something for someone who needs it. I'll wait for you in the car." Then she turned and walked out of Kerby's.
I was only eight years old. I'd often gone shopping with my mother, but never had I shopped for anything all by myself. The store seemed big and crowded, full of people scrambling to finish their Christmas shopping. For a few moments I just stood there, confused, clutching that ten-dollar bill, wondering what to buy, and who on earth to buy it for.
I thought of everybody I knew: my family, my friends, my neighbors, the kids at school, the people who went to my church. I was just about thinking out, when I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker. He was a kid with bad breath and messy hair, and he sat right behind me in Mrs. Pollock's grade-two class.
Bobby Decker didn't have a coat. I knew that because he never went out to recess during the winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough, but all we kids knew that Bobby Decker didn't have a cough; he didn't have a good coat. I fingered the ten-dollar bill with growing excitement. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat!
I settled on a red corduroy one that had a hood to it. It looked really warm, and he would like that. "Is this a Christmas present for someone?" the lady behind the counter asked kindly, as I laid my ten dollars down. "Yes, ma'am," I replied shyly. "It's for Bobby."
The nice lady smiled at me, as I told her about how Bobby really needed a good winter coat. I didn't get any change, but she put the coat in a bag, smiled again, and wished me a Merry Christmas.
That evening, Grandma helped me wrap the coat (a little tag fell out of the coat, and Grandma tucked it in her Bible) in Christmas paper and ribbons and wrote, "To Bobby, From Santa Claus" on it.
Grandma said that Santa always insisted on secrecy. Then she drove me over to Bobby Decker's house, explaining as we went that I was now and forever officially, one of Santa's helpers.
Grandma parked down the street from Bobby's house, and she and I crept noiselessly and hid in the bushes by his front walk. Then Grandma gave me a nudge. "All right, Santa Claus," she whispered, "get going."
I took a deep breath, dashed for his front door, threw the present down on his step, pounded his door and flew back to the safety of the bushes and Grandma. Together we waited breathlessly in the darkness for the front door to open. Finally it did, and there stood Bobby.
Fifty years haven't dimmed the thrill of those moments spent shivering, beside my Grandma, in Bobby Decker's bushes. That night, I realized that those awful rumors about Santa Claus were just what Grandma said they were -- ridiculous. Santa was alive and well, and we were on his team.
I still have the Bible, with the coat tag tucked inside: $19.95.
May you always have love to share, health to spare and friends that care...And may you always believe in the magic of Santa Claus.

10/18/2024

Ready for you tomorrow to meet Santa!

Two spots left!!

Don’t miss out. This is not mall Santa photos. This is an experience.

10/18/2024

🥇 Contest time!!!

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Win a $50 credit with Shannon Lutkins Photography. Can be used for any session in the next 12 months.

Contest ends at 5pm 10/18/24

Only 3 spots left! Is Santa the first thing on your mind in October? Nope. But you will be so happy you got this done so early. You will have your cards down earlier than ever. And your kids will be on their best behavior much earlier than usual!

This is not a sit and pose with Santa session. This is an experience. Double the time given by most photographers! Children walk away believing more than ever. I’ve been told more than once that because of these sessions their child is Team Believe for another year!

10/18/2024

Such a gorgeous couple and wedding.

10/11/2024

Only 3 spots left for next weekend with Santa!

10/10/2024

Time is running out to book your spot with Santa next weekend.

Do yourself a favor and have one thing off your plate for the holidays!

Christmas pics ✅
Cards done a month early ✅
Coolest parent ever for knowing where Santa is in October ✅