Celebrate Adoption is a national organization made up of professional photographers dedicated to celebrating adoptive families by donating a complimentary portrait session and a set of photo proofs to families who have adopted a child within a year of the adoption.

Families can find a listing of participating photographers on the organization's website. Contact photographers directly for details.

Located inside St. Louis Mills, Kiddie Kandids specializes in portraits of infants and toddlers, although any age group is welcome.

Photographers are extensively trained and certified, and a wide array of supporting props and backdrops are available. Portraits are taken digitally, which allows customers to customize color, borders, and text, as well as to take them home immediately.

Photoplay Photography specializes in portraits, events, and commercial photography and uses a mixture of traditional and photojournalistic views to capture families' special moments and events.

Pixie Posie offers non-traditional children's photography and commisioned fine art. Jennifer Mannion, Pixie Posie's owner and photographer, approaches her work with a journalist's eye, capturing kids at their best: running, laughing, reading, cuddling, and playing. She uses as much natural light as possible to give her boutique-style photography an artsy look.

Jennifer can visit your home or any location for any occasion - a birthday, one of life's milestones, or just a simple day at home. Maternity art, birth documentaries, pets, and tweens' and teens' "fashion shows" are also some of her specialties. Most sessions last around two hours and Jennifer brings all she needs.

Pixie Posie is a charitable company, too: Jennifer offers complimentary sessions for families of military personnel and fire fighters and police officers. She also offers free sessions to families who are in the process of losing a child; she works with the non-profit organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.

Portrait Innovations all-digital concept focuses on the most modern technology to deliver high-quality photographic portraits.

Prices are very competitive with other studios, we love the immediate delivery, and the quality of the portraits we've seen has been excellent.

Portrait Innovations all-digital concept focuses on the most modern technology to deliver high-quality photographic portraits.

Prices are very competitive with other studios, we love the immediate delivery, and the quality of the portraits we've seen has been excellent.

Portrait Innovations' all-digital concept focuses on the most modern technology to deliver high-quality photographic portraits.

Prices are very competitive with other studios. We love the immediate delivery, and the quality of the portraits we've seen has been excellent.

Appointments are highly recommended. Walk-ins are accepted, based on availability.

Tréci Collender - better known to kids as Princess the Clown - has larned her face-painting and balloon artistry by one of the top professionals in the face-painting and clowning industry, Marcela "Mama Clown" Murad. Collender regularly attends seminars and conventions to keep her talent fresh and unique.

Princess the Clown also offers temporary Natural Henna and airbrush tattoos (including glitter tattoos) to her party audience, and features a wide variety of themes and costumes from which parents and party planners can choose. Special services include professional event photography and/or videos, goody bags, and a "dress-up trunk."

She offers her services throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area and can attend a wide array of special events, including birthday parties, corporate family events, holiday parties, grand openings, and auto shows.

Speed of Life Photography specializes in custom on-location portraits of children, families, and seniors; "maternity portraits" are popular, too!