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Mini Session

The Mini Session is our shortest session, with about 20 minutes of photography. You choose your ten favorite edited digital files from your gallery.

  • Purchasing a session pays for it. We set your date, time, and location with you separately.

$300.00

What’s included

We start with a few photographs of your family together, then give the rest of our time to the kids. With little ones we turn the session into a small adventure and photograph them while they play. A Mini gallery usually has around 35 to 45 photographs to choose from, though that number varies from session to session. If you love more than ten, you can buy additional digital files, prints, and frames right from your gallery.

  • A session for one family

  • About 20 minutes of photography in a 30-minute booking

  • Ten edited digital files, selected from your gallery

  • The option to buy additional digital files, prints, and frames right from your gallery

Portrait Photographs

Life changes in small ways and big ones, and the Mini Session is a short, simple way to mark them, from a fresh portrait or senior year to a new baby or quick family photo.

Families

Two children smile together as an adult wraps an arm around them from behind.
A young child in a green dress and pink bow standing among flowers.
Parents cuddle and laugh with their three young children on a log during a fall mini family session

Seniors

Young man seated beside white truck.
Young woman reclining among purple flowers.
Young person among purple garden flowers.

Maternity

Expectant adult standing among purple woodland flowers.
Expectant couple embracing in sunlit garden.
Expectant woman seated beside large rocks.

Couples

Man kissing woman forehead in woodland.
Couple embracing on shaded woodland stone path.
Couple standing together on garden path.

Newborns

Children cuddling wrapped newborn in garden.
Family seated together holding wrapped newborn.
Awake baby stretching arms on patterned blanket.

From the Journal

A young child in a green dress and pink bow standing among flowers.

The Heart of It All | Summer Floral Mini Session

Wildflowers and an old truck set the scene for a twenty-minute family Mini session at Schuster’s Farm.

Read the Journal story

Parents cuddle and laugh with their three young children on a log during a fall mini family session

Warmth and Wonder | Fall Mini Family Session

Three kids, wildflowers, and a backyard greenhouse gave this Madison Mini session room for family photographs and the moments in between.

Read the Journal story

Arranging your session


  1. Check availability with us, or purchase your session.

    Either order works. If you have a date in mind, email [email protected] and we’ll check it before you buy. Our travel calendar shows where we’re scheduled to travel, and we can tell you which appointments are open.


  2. Complete your booking.

    Contact us, and we’ll send you a booking link. You’ll complete it and sign your portrait agreement.


  3. Get your confirmation.

    Your session is on our calendar once we confirm your date, time, and location.

Have a date in mind?

Email us at [email protected] and we’ll happily check it for you before you buy.

Questions before you book

Does buying a session reserve my date?

No. Your purchase doesn’t hold a date, time or location. Those are set when you complete the booking link we send and we confirm availability. If you have a date in mind, email [email protected] and we’ll happily check it for you before you buy.

Where do sessions take place?

Sessions take place in Dane County, Wisconsin, or at a location on our scheduled travel. Additional travel fees apply for locations outside Dane County or outside our scheduled travel. Email us with where you’re thinking, and we’ll tell you what’s possible.

Can grandparents or other relatives join?

Yes. That’s what the Generations Session is for. The Mini, Deluxe, and Adventure Sessions are each for one family, and the Generations Session brings your extended family together.

Does my session expire?

No. Sessions do not expire.

What if my plans change?

Contact us as soon as you know, or any time you’re unsure whether a date has been confirmed. Your signed portrait agreement explains cancellation, rescheduling, and payment terms for your booking. You can also read our Terms of Service and Return & Refund Policy.

Session policies

Your signed portrait agreement explains cancellation, rescheduling, and payment terms for your booking.

Terms of Service · Return & Refund Policy

What’s included

Come in the outfit you feel most like yourself in, so all of our time, about 20 minutes of photography, goes to making photographs. If you love more than ten, you can buy additional digital files, prints, and frames right from your gallery.

  • A senior portrait session

  • About 20 minutes of photography in a 30-minute booking

  • Ten edited digital files, selected from your gallery

  • The option to buy additional digital files, prints, and frames right from your gallery

Portrait Photographs

Life changes in small ways and big ones, and the Mini Session is a short, simple way to mark them, from a fresh portrait or senior year to a new baby or quick family photo.

Seniors

Young man seated beside white truck.
Young woman reclining among purple flowers.
Young person among purple garden flowers.

Families

Two children smile together as an adult wraps an arm around them from behind.
A young child in a green dress and pink bow standing among flowers.
Parents cuddle and laugh with their three young children on a log during a fall mini family session

Maternity

Expectant adult standing among purple woodland flowers.
Expectant couple embracing in sunlit garden.
Expectant woman seated beside large rocks.

Couples

Man kissing woman forehead in woodland.
Couple embracing on shaded woodland stone path.
Couple standing together on garden path.

Newborns

Children cuddling wrapped newborn in garden.
Family seated together holding wrapped newborn.
Awake baby stretching arms on patterned blanket.

From the Journal

A young child in a green dress and pink bow standing among flowers.

The Heart of It All | Summer Floral Mini Session

Wildflowers and an old truck set the scene for a twenty-minute family Mini session at Schuster’s Farm.

Read the Journal story

Parents cuddle and laugh with their three young children on a log during a fall mini family session

Warmth and Wonder | Fall Mini Family Session

Three kids, wildflowers, and a backyard greenhouse gave this Madison Mini session room for family photographs and the moments in between.

Read the Journal story

Arranging your session


  1. Check availability with us, or purchase your session.

    Either order works. If you have a date in mind, email [email protected] and we’ll check it before you buy. Our travel calendar shows where we’re scheduled to travel, and we can tell you which appointments are open.


  2. Complete your booking.

    Contact us, and we’ll send you a booking link. You’ll complete it and sign your portrait agreement.


  3. Get your confirmation.

    Your session is on our calendar once we confirm your date, time, and location.

Have a date in mind?

Email us at [email protected] and we’ll happily check it for you before you buy.

Questions before you book

Does buying a session reserve my date?

No. Your purchase doesn’t hold a date, time or location. Those are set when you complete the booking link we send and we confirm availability. If you have a date in mind, email [email protected] and we’ll happily check it for you before you buy.

Where do sessions take place?

Sessions take place in Dane County, Wisconsin, or at a location on our scheduled travel. Additional travel fees apply for locations outside Dane County or outside our scheduled travel. Email us with where you’re thinking, and we’ll tell you what’s possible.

Does my session expire?

No. Sessions do not expire.

What if my plans change?

Contact us as soon as you know, or any time you’re unsure whether a date has been confirmed. Your signed portrait agreement explains cancellation, rescheduling, and payment terms for your booking. You can also read our Terms of Service and Return & Refund Policy.

Session policies

Your signed portrait agreement explains cancellation, rescheduling, and payment terms for your booking.

Terms of Service · Return & Refund Policy

What’s included

We spend about 20 minutes photographing, so tell us what you’re picturing when you contact us and we’ll plan the time around it. If you love more than ten photographs, you can buy additional digital files, prints, and frames right from your gallery.

  • A maternity portrait session

  • About 20 minutes of photography in a 30-minute booking

  • Ten edited digital files, selected from your gallery

  • The option to buy additional digital files, prints, and frames right from your gallery

Portrait Photographs

Life changes in small ways and big ones, and the Mini Session is a short, simple way to mark them, from a fresh portrait or senior year to a new baby or quick family photo.

Maternity

Expectant adult standing among purple woodland flowers.
Expectant couple embracing in sunlit garden.
Expectant woman seated beside large rocks.

Families

Two children smile together as an adult wraps an arm around them from behind.
A young child in a green dress and pink bow standing among flowers.
Parents cuddle and laugh with their three young children on a log during a fall mini family session

Seniors

Young man seated beside white truck.
Young woman reclining among purple flowers.
Young person among purple garden flowers.

Couples

Man kissing woman forehead in woodland.
Couple embracing on shaded woodland stone path.
Couple standing together on garden path.

Newborns

Children cuddling wrapped newborn in garden.
Family seated together holding wrapped newborn.
Awake baby stretching arms on patterned blanket.

From the Journal

A young child in a green dress and pink bow standing among flowers.

The Heart of It All | Summer Floral Mini Session

Wildflowers and an old truck set the scene for a twenty-minute family Mini session at Schuster’s Farm.

Read the Journal story

Parents cuddle and laugh with their three young children on a log during a fall mini family session

Warmth and Wonder | Fall Mini Family Session

Three kids, wildflowers, and a backyard greenhouse gave this Madison Mini session room for family photographs and the moments in between.

Read the Journal story

Arranging your session


  1. Check availability with us, or purchase your session.

    Either order works. If you have a date in mind, email [email protected] and we’ll check it before you buy. Our travel calendar shows where we’re scheduled to travel, and we can tell you which appointments are open.


  2. Complete your booking.

    Contact us, and we’ll send you a booking link. You’ll complete it and sign your portrait agreement.


  3. Get your confirmation.

    Your session is on our calendar once we confirm your date, time, and location.

Have a date in mind?

Email us at [email protected] and we’ll happily check it for you before you buy.

Questions before you book

Does buying a session reserve my date?

No. Your purchase doesn’t hold a date, time or location. Those are set when you complete the booking link we send and we confirm availability. If you have a date in mind, email [email protected] and we’ll happily check it for you before you buy.

Where do sessions take place?

Sessions take place in Dane County, Wisconsin, or at a location on our scheduled travel. Additional travel fees apply for locations outside Dane County or outside our scheduled travel. Email us with where you’re thinking, and we’ll tell you what’s possible.

Does my session expire?

No. Sessions do not expire.

What if my plans change?

Contact us as soon as you know, or any time you’re unsure whether a date has been confirmed. Your signed portrait agreement explains cancellation, rescheduling, and payment terms for your booking. You can also read our Terms of Service and Return & Refund Policy.

Session policies

Your signed portrait agreement explains cancellation, rescheduling, and payment terms for your booking.

Terms of Service · Return & Refund Policy

What’s included

Choose it when you’d like an updated photograph of the two of you and a set of favorites to keep. If you love more than ten, you can buy additional digital files, prints, and frames right from your gallery.

  • A couple portrait session

  • About 20 minutes of photography in a 30-minute booking

  • Ten edited digital files, selected from your gallery

  • The option to buy additional digital files, prints, and frames right from your gallery

Portrait Photographs

Life changes in small ways and big ones, and the Mini Session is a short, simple way to mark them, from a fresh portrait or senior year to a new baby or quick family photo.

Couples

Man kissing woman forehead in woodland.
Couple embracing on shaded woodland stone path.
Couple standing together on garden path.

Families

Two children smile together as an adult wraps an arm around them from behind.
A young child in a green dress and pink bow standing among flowers.
Parents cuddle and laugh with their three young children on a log during a fall mini family session

Seniors

Young man seated beside white truck.
Young woman reclining among purple flowers.
Young person among purple garden flowers.

Maternity

Expectant adult standing among purple woodland flowers.
Expectant couple embracing in sunlit garden.
Expectant woman seated beside large rocks.

Newborns

Children cuddling wrapped newborn in garden.
Family seated together holding wrapped newborn.
Awake baby stretching arms on patterned blanket.

From the Journal

A young child in a green dress and pink bow standing among flowers.

The Heart of It All | Summer Floral Mini Session

Wildflowers and an old truck set the scene for a twenty-minute family Mini session at Schuster’s Farm.

Read the Journal story

Parents cuddle and laugh with their three young children on a log during a fall mini family session

Warmth and Wonder | Fall Mini Family Session

Three kids, wildflowers, and a backyard greenhouse gave this Madison Mini session room for family photographs and the moments in between.

Read the Journal story

Arranging your session


  1. Check availability with us, or purchase your session.

    Either order works. If you have a date in mind, email [email protected] and we’ll check it before you buy. Our travel calendar shows where we’re scheduled to travel, and we can tell you which appointments are open.


  2. Complete your booking.

    Contact us, and we’ll send you a booking link. You’ll complete it and sign your portrait agreement.


  3. Get your confirmation.

    Your session is on our calendar once we confirm your date, time, and location.

Have a date in mind?

Email us at [email protected] and we’ll happily check it for you before you buy.

Questions before you book

Does buying a session reserve my date?

No. Your purchase doesn’t hold a date, time or location. Those are set when you complete the booking link we send and we confirm availability. If you have a date in mind, email [email protected] and we’ll happily check it for you before you buy.

Where do sessions take place?

Sessions take place in Dane County, Wisconsin, or at a location on our scheduled travel. Additional travel fees apply for locations outside Dane County or outside our scheduled travel. Email us with where you’re thinking, and we’ll tell you what’s possible.

Does my session expire?

No. Sessions do not expire.

What if my plans change?

Contact us as soon as you know, or any time you’re unsure whether a date has been confirmed. Your signed portrait agreement explains cancellation, rescheduling, and payment terms for your booking. You can also read our Terms of Service and Return & Refund Policy.

Session policies

Your signed portrait agreement explains cancellation, rescheduling, and payment terms for your booking.

Terms of Service · Return & Refund Policy

What’s included

We’d love to hear about your new arrival. Some babies sleep through their session and some stay wide awake, and we love photographing both. If you love more than ten photographs, you can buy additional digital files, prints, and frames right from your gallery. Contact us and we’ll talk through your newborn photographs and your booking.

  • A newborn portrait session

  • A 30-minute booking

  • Ten edited digital files, selected from your gallery

  • The option to buy additional digital files, prints, and frames right from your gallery

Portrait Photographs

Life changes in small ways and big ones, and the Mini Session is a short, simple way to mark them, from a fresh portrait or senior year to a new baby or quick family photo.

Newborns

Children cuddling wrapped newborn in garden.
Family seated together holding wrapped newborn.
Awake baby stretching arms on patterned blanket.

Families

Two children smile together as an adult wraps an arm around them from behind.
A young child in a green dress and pink bow standing among flowers.
Parents cuddle and laugh with their three young children on a log during a fall mini family session

Seniors

Young man seated beside white truck.
Young woman reclining among purple flowers.
Young person among purple garden flowers.

Maternity

Expectant adult standing among purple woodland flowers.
Expectant couple embracing in sunlit garden.
Expectant woman seated beside large rocks.

Couples

Man kissing woman forehead in woodland.
Couple embracing on shaded woodland stone path.
Couple standing together on garden path.

From the Journal

A young child in a green dress and pink bow standing among flowers.

The Heart of It All | Summer Floral Mini Session

Wildflowers and an old truck set the scene for a twenty-minute family Mini session at Schuster’s Farm.

Read the Journal story

Parents cuddle and laugh with their three young children on a log during a fall mini family session

Warmth and Wonder | Fall Mini Family Session

Three kids, wildflowers, and a backyard greenhouse gave this Madison Mini session room for family photographs and the moments in between.

Read the Journal story

Arranging your session


  1. Check availability with us, or purchase your session.

    Either order works. If you have a date in mind, email [email protected] and we’ll check it before you buy. Our travel calendar shows where we’re scheduled to travel, and we can tell you which appointments are open.


  2. Complete your booking.

    Contact us, and we’ll send you a booking link. You’ll complete it and sign your portrait agreement.


  3. Get your confirmation.

    Your session is on our calendar once we confirm your date, time, and location.

Have a date in mind?

Email us at [email protected] and we’ll happily check it for you before you buy.

Questions before you book

Does buying a session reserve my date?

No. Your purchase doesn’t hold a date, time or location. Those are set when you complete the booking link we send and we confirm availability. If you have a date in mind, email [email protected] and we’ll happily check it for you before you buy.

Where do sessions take place?

Sessions take place in Dane County, Wisconsin, or at a location on our scheduled travel. Additional travel fees apply for locations outside Dane County or outside our scheduled travel. Email us with where you’re thinking, and we’ll tell you what’s possible.

Does my session expire?

No. Sessions do not expire.

What if my plans change?

Contact us as soon as you know, or any time you’re unsure whether a date has been confirmed. Your signed portrait agreement explains cancellation, rescheduling, and payment terms for your booking. You can also read our Terms of Service and Return & Refund Policy.

Session policies

Your signed portrait agreement explains cancellation, rescheduling, and payment terms for your booking.

Terms of Service · Return & Refund Policy

What’s included

Choose the Mini when you’d like updated portraits and ten favorites to keep. If you love more than ten, you can buy additional digital files, prints, and frames right from your gallery.

  • A portrait session

  • About 20 minutes of photography in a 30-minute booking

  • Ten edited digital files, selected from your gallery

  • The option to buy additional digital files, prints, and frames right from your gallery

Portrait Photographs

Life changes in small ways and big ones, and the Mini Session is a short, simple way to mark them, from a fresh portrait or senior year to a new baby or quick family photo.

Families

Two children smile together as an adult wraps an arm around them from behind.
A young child in a green dress and pink bow standing among flowers.
Parents cuddle and laugh with their three young children on a log during a fall mini family session

Seniors

Young man seated beside white truck.
Young woman reclining among purple flowers.
Young person among purple garden flowers.

Maternity

Expectant adult standing among purple woodland flowers.
Expectant couple embracing in sunlit garden.
Expectant woman seated beside large rocks.

Couples

Man kissing woman forehead in woodland.
Couple embracing on shaded woodland stone path.
Couple standing together on garden path.

Newborns

Children cuddling wrapped newborn in garden.
Family seated together holding wrapped newborn.
Awake baby stretching arms on patterned blanket.

From the Journal

A young child in a green dress and pink bow standing among flowers.

The Heart of It All | Summer Floral Mini Session

Wildflowers and an old truck set the scene for a twenty-minute family Mini session at Schuster’s Farm.

Read the Journal story

Parents cuddle and laugh with their three young children on a log during a fall mini family session

Warmth and Wonder | Fall Mini Family Session

Three kids, wildflowers, and a backyard greenhouse gave this Madison Mini session room for family photographs and the moments in between.

Read the Journal story

Arranging your session


  1. Check availability with us, or purchase your session.

    Either order works. If you have a date in mind, email [email protected] and we’ll check it before you buy. Our travel calendar shows where we’re scheduled to travel, and we can tell you which appointments are open.


  2. Complete your booking.

    Contact us, and we’ll send you a booking link. You’ll complete it and sign your portrait agreement.


  3. Get your confirmation.

    Your session is on our calendar once we confirm your date, time, and location.

Have a date in mind?

Email us at [email protected] and we’ll happily check it for you before you buy.

Questions before you book

Does buying a session reserve my date?

No. Your purchase doesn’t hold a date, time or location. Those are set when you complete the booking link we send and we confirm availability. If you have a date in mind, email [email protected] and we’ll happily check it for you before you buy.

Where do sessions take place?

Sessions take place in Dane County, Wisconsin, or at a location on our scheduled travel. Additional travel fees apply for locations outside Dane County or outside our scheduled travel. Email us with where you’re thinking, and we’ll tell you what’s possible.

Does my session expire?

No. Sessions do not expire.

What if my plans change?

Contact us as soon as you know, or any time you’re unsure whether a date has been confirmed. Your signed portrait agreement explains cancellation, rescheduling, and payment terms for your booking. You can also read our Terms of Service and Return & Refund Policy.

Session policies

Your signed portrait agreement explains cancellation, rescheduling, and payment terms for your booking.

Terms of Service · Return & Refund Policy

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