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  • Welcome to my Blog!

    HOWDY! My name is Samantha Vanderlist... I usually go by Sam..

    If you haven't guessed, this is me. I don't take myself to seriously and just like to have fun with what kind of apples get thrown at me. I established Shutter Sam Photography back in 2003.  This blog is for me to show you my current work and to spout my ideas from time to time. If you want to chit chat or go for some coffee just drop me a line... I love Mocha's with skim milk and no whip cream please.

jennie + david

Congratulations!!

SO happy the snow decided to show up at least for one day:)

monday yummy

Hope everyone stays warm this week!

devorah + philip ~ engaged

When meeting them I spent the 1st 30 mins saying Devorah’s name incorrectly! LOL I said why didn’t you tell me, she said “Oh I’m use to it.” LOL can you just see me on their wedding day still saying her name wrong!! So I quickly wrote her name down how it’s correctly pronounced so I don’t make that mistake again:)It’s those darn vowels, they get me every time!!

Devorah had this great idea to go to Cranbrook Science Center and just walk around. Boy oh boy it was beautiful!!

melissa & larry ~ 8.26.11 ~ post family farms

One of the coolest things I’ve seen to date is they wanted to do a 1st glance but to actually NOT SEE each other. Way to much fun. You can just feel the excitement!

Location: Post Family Farms in Hudsonville, MI

I’m a sucker for the moments in between the smiles… (fix that tie… it is fixed??)

Francis Family

I’ve finished with all my edits and clients are all happy with the goods:)Now It’s time to finally show you what we’ve been up to!

Lexi & Brad just create the cutes boys around! We did their yearly family session and add an extra year to the boys ages created a challenge to just have both boys in the frame LOL. If only I could bottle that energy for days when I really need it!!

I love this one! A little photog trick to get the clients to relax their faces is I ask them to close their eyes and take a deep breath together, then on my count just open your eyes… works every time. Well I didn’t even notice Kellan until I was going through the images and found this one LOL.

We added Lexi’s parents to complete the family:)

Need I say more….  A D O R A B L E

Had to throw in a little wind action!

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