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Well hello there...
And congratulations! Either you are engaged to be married, or maybe you are expecting a baby, or maybe you just recognize that you and yours are pretty darn special and worth capturing on "film" to enjoy during the decades to come. Whatever your reason for stopping by, welcome to Moonshadow Studio, my livlihood and professional love for the last eight years.

My name is Jennifer Roberts, and I've had a camera in my hand off and on since I was 15 years old. Let's see.... it all started with an old all-manual film camera and a class trip to what was the Soviet Union. What an amazing place to get my photographic feet wet. My favorite photograph of that trip was of a little boy drawing a smiley face on the sidewalk with the crayons I'd just given him out of my backpack. (As it turns out, smiley faces look the same in Russian as in English.) With all of the beautiful churches and royal palaces, I gravitated toward people as my subjects even then.

Fast-forward to the newlywed version of me in 2002, art gallery owner and website designer for artists across North America. Unexpectedly, I was so inspired by my own wedding photographer who made my husband Tony's and my New Orleans nuptials look like something out of a historical coffee table book- you know, like those beautiful ones you find in dusty used book stores. And I got to wondering if I might be any good at that. A couple of freebie weddings later to test the wedding waters (oh my, what brave couplees they were indeed!) and I began to realize that I rather liked this wedding photography gig.

And here I am, eight years later, still happily married to the guy in those beautiful photos from New Orleans, with little 7 year old Meara along for the ride too. And she would tell me to tell you about Truman, her sweet, yet very hairy canine big brother who is my hiking buddy each morning before I buckle down in front of my computer, forever working on the images of the most wonderful clients anyone could ever ask for. Truman's pretty happy about my job too, as he enjoys a spot at my feet most days while I work, always happy to offer his expert opinion in the form of a bark or a wag of his tail.

During most of the year, I am pretty hard at work shooting weddings in Missouri and occasionally someplace more exotic like Jamaica, Mexico, or L.A. (for which my husband is always grateful, as he makes a most willing assistant when needed. (Somebody has to carry my gear, after all, he says.) It is my dream to someday shoot a wedding in Ireland (could it be YOURS?) But no matter where the location, there is love to be captured in every place. Nothing presents more creative opportunity than a wedding, big or small, near or far.

In addition to weddings, I also enjoy family photography. With almost 250 couples out in the world as wedding day clients, you can imagine there are babies born each year that need capturing! And talk about warm fuzzies. To go from talking with a freshly-engaged young woman about which shade of orange she is thinking of for her bridesmaids dresses to seeing her and her husband walk through the door carrying a pumpkin-seat full of wonderfulness (10 fingers, 10 toes and ALL sweetness), is probably my favorite thing about this job.

And of course there's lots of other type of work I do with my camera. There's the boudoir sessions to keep things interesting, occasional marketing images to keep me busy in Columbia's thriving business world, and every once in a while I get a call for something I did not see coming... (ninjas, poodles, and high-heeled shoes, for example, not in one shot of course.)

And just a note about the studio- it's in the new North Village Studios building at 1023 E. Walnut Street in downtown, Columbia, MO. I love having a space to call my own and my husband likes having a space for my STUFF to call home. I am by appointment only there (Truman prefers to "work" at home when we are just editing, particularly in the summer months.) But I look forward to you seeing it and welcoming you with a glass of wine or cup of coffee while we visit about what memories you're looking to have turned into works of art.

And that is really what I try to do for you. Turn your "something special" into something beautiful for you and your family to treasure for a lifetime. I hope to make your acquaintance soon so we can get started!

-Jennifer Roberts
573.268.3321
smile@moonshadowstudio.com