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Granite Bay Los Lagos Senior Portraits

Senior Portraits

Del Oro High School Senior Portraits ~ Isabella Class of 2017

Senior year! When you are in elementary school it feels like you will always be in school.  Then you blink and it is senior year. You are taking final tests, receiving acceptance letters, planning trips, buying the perfect dress for prom, planning your big graduation bash, packing for college, and saying goodbyes. There are a […]

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Engagement photo, Wedding Photography, Auburn CA

Business

Celebrating my 7 year anniversary!! ~ Auburn, CA Photographer

  Ann Keen Photography is celebrating their 7 year anniversary!!   I am so excited to celebrate my 7 year anniversary! 7 years ago I had just launched my 1st website and I was jumping into this business hoping and praying that I would be able to bless many people with memories to cherish forever.  I had […]

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Palms by Ann Keen

Photography

Ann Keen Photography is expanding!!

It is with much sadness and excitement that I make this big announcement this morning.  Ann Keen Photography is taking on a second city!!  That’s right!  AKP is about to go through some changes, and one of them is big.  So big that it will take approximately 542 miles, way too many boxes, one large moving […]

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Baby #4 Announcement

Personal

Announcing…

  It is all so very surreal!  Our little rainbow baby is actually on its way.  We could not be happier!  The boys are pretty excited too!!  And now that we have passed our 1st trimester and seen our sweet baby multiple times it is time to SHOUT the news from the rooftops. 🙂  I have […]

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Desert inspiration session of a woman on a rock formation in a flowy red dress. Palm Desert, CA by Ann Keen Photography

Photography

Desert Inspiration ~ Palm Desert Senior Portrait Photographer

If you live here in the desert you are pretty familiar with Hwy 74.  If not, it is a very curvy road with nothing to see but rocks, boulders, and desert plants.  Well I can’t tell you how many times I have traveled this road to meet with clients, to head to Temecula, or to […]

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Special Offers

Black Friday-Shop Small Saturday-Cyber Monday ~ Palm Desert Photographer

Well, it is that time again.  Time for eating too much, leftovers, family time, laughter, and crazy shopping.  That being said we all know what day it is…Black Friday!    If you are on my mailing list (http://eepurl.com/JJ80f) then you are already in the know. 🙂  Yep that is right I am having a Black […]

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BEHIND THE LENS

ABOUT Ann

My path here wasn't exactly straight, and I think that's what makes it worth telling.

I wasn't supposed to be a photographer. I was supposed to become a doctor. Neurobiology premed, on track, until my oldest son was diagnosed with epilepsy and life took a hard U-turn. I took a break and enrolled in photography classes I had always wanted to take but never could as a premed. On day two I knew. This was where I was supposed to be. Funny thing is, that analytical, detail-oriented part of me never left. It just shows up differently now, in the way I plan every session, read the light, and pay attention to the moments most people miss. I finished my degree in a year and a half, started my business the following October, and sixteen years later I still believe this is the gift God gave me to give to others. And I don't take that lightly.

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Something Beautiful

Whether you're chasing toddlers through a field or stepping in front of the camera for your business, I'd love to be your photographer. Let's make images worth keeping.