Welcome to the Marmalade Photography Blog – Your Chicago Family Photographer’s space for: session sneak peeks, photography tips, and behind-the-scenes stories.
Since 2005, I’ve been documenting families all across Chicagoland. From Lincoln Park to Naperville. From Highland Park to Homewood. Explore recent sessions and two decades of captured moments.
CHICAGO FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHER MARMALADE PHOTOGRAPHY’S BLOG
We are so happy to present this client-centric space for sneak peeks, news, event announcements and all the goodness that we love to bring to you, our cherished clients.
RECENT SNEAK PEEKS AND POSTS
This area of our site is where you will see the latest news, events, photo session updates, sneak peeks and post session showcases (plus any news or events worth mentioning). If you’re looking for more information about Chicago Family Photographer, Marmalade Photography, then click over to our website where you will find details about our sessions, be able to preview extensive galleries of our past client work and dig deep to find out what we’re all about.
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Family Photography in Naperville
A super fun session with an amazing family in Naperville, Illinois.
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Downers Grove High School Senior Photography Session
This weekend was one for the books! I had a blast seeing some “old” but young…
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Naperville High School Senior Photography
A blast from the past to brighten your rainy day and evening with a brief peek…
Proudly Serving Chicagoland
Experienced
20+ years of memory creating for Chicago Children, Families and High School Seniors.
Storyteller at Heart
I capture the in-between moments – quiet connections, genuine laughter, and authentic expressions that make your family uniquely yours.
Serving Chicagoland
From Lincoln Park to Naperville, Highland Park to Plainfield – I travel to you, or you can choose from my hand-picked Southwest Suburbs locations.
The lotus blooms by pushing through mud toward light.
When I refreshed Marmalade Photography branding in 2023, I reflected on the (nearly) 20 years in business and the philosophy behind my work.
My logo shows the lotus upside-down – still reaching, still growing, still emerging. It’s also serves as a sort of deconstructed heart (my original symbol, honoring my roots as a post open heart surgical RN), the love that started me on the photography path). The graphic sort of forms the letter M for Marmalade.
It represents my journey from CVICU nurse: documenting life’s fragility, as a nurse, to documenting and celebrating life’s beauty, as a photographer.
More than twenty years of photographing families, not just moments, but entire lives.
For Life has dual meaning: I create photography FOR life (preserving memories), and I photograph families FOR life (year after year, milestone after milestone).
This is what I do. This is who I am.
Marmalade Photography. For Life.
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WHAT DO OUR CLIENTS SAY?
If our long list of repeat clients doesn’t resonate – here are a few quick testimonials.
Real families. Real experiences. Real memories preserved.