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Hi! I'm Erica May Short, and I'm so excited you're here. This blog will show you my current work with a few fun personal things mixed in to help you get to know me better. I am a wedding and portrait photographer in Kansas City, and I love my job. I am so blessed to be a part of so many stories. I care more about people than pictures, because it's your story that provides photo-worthy moments.

Besides photography, I love my husband Jeff, our miniature schnauzer Petey, movie theater candy, and the color green. You can visit my main portfolio website at www.ericamay.com!


All of the fun photos in the blog header are of Jeff and I recently -- taken by our amazingly talented friends Jeremy and Ashley of www.wearetheparsons.com! We have them to thank for capturing us exactly how we are.

Monthly Archives: October 2010

Kate and Justin’s Fall Engagement Session

Kate and Justin make my job easy. They’re adorable together, fun, and comfortable. They were up for a little photo adventure, racing the sun before it set to find a nice “country” location. I won’t tell you where the last part of these photos were taken, because you’d be shocked… just imagine a really picturesque,...

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I need a model or two — short notice!

Hey there, readers of my little blog! I’m doing a private photo mentoring lesson on Monday afternoon, and we need some people to model for us! I’d prefer to have a couple, but an individual girl would work great, too! This would be a teaching time, so you have to be okay with me teaching...

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Fall Family Portraits… I love fall!

Kelli and Ryan were some of the very, very first people I ever photographed. I didn’t have a good camera, didn’t know much about photography, but knew I liked to take pictures. And they asked me to take some for them in the fall just a little over four years ago. Just four years… but...

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One of my wedding couples had a beautiful baby!

Lisa and Ben got married last year, and I had the pleasure of taking their engagement and wedding photos during that exciting time in their life. Now, they’re sharing their excitement with the newest little addition to their family — Wes! Wes is six months old now, and I got to meet him and take...

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Olivia’s Senior Photos on the KU Campus

Olivia drove a few hours to take her senior photos, and we met up on the KU campus for some fun photos with pretty backdrops. She wanted photos that didn’t look like the rest of her classmates’ photos, and we had a lot of fun creating images to capture her senior year. She brought along...

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Sarah and Paul’s October Wedding in St. Joseph, Missouri

I’m not even sure how to start this blog post about Sarah and Paul, because there are so many things I want to share about who they are and how they love. They are people who care deeply and love richly. They don’t contain their excitement for each other. They are wonderful people separately, but...

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Evelyn and Joe’s Downtown Kansas City Engagement Session

Evelyn and Joe’s engagement session started out in a pretty neat way — at their jeweler’s! We went to Goodden Jewellers in downtown Kansas City to take photos of the ring-making process that Evelyn and Joe are in the middle of for their very unique wedding bands. They are having Mokume Gane rings made, and...

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Caitlin and Ryan: Engagement Photos Shadow Glen Golf Club

This is the week for gorgeous golf course engagement sessions! Caitlin and Ryan are so much fun. They are relaxed, comfortable, and love each other. Caitlin’s a KU grad from a family of KU fans. Ryan’s a K-State grad from a family of K-State fans. Luckily, they enjoy the friendly rivalry — in fact, they...

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Families like this make me so excited.

Can you tell that I am absolutely loving my job lately? I am. Because it’s awesome. And I love meeting the kind of people I get to meet and taking photos of them. This family included. This is the second time I’ve photographed them this year, and they were even more awesome this time around....

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Brandi and Scott: Engagement Photos at the Golf Course!

I liked Brandi and Scott from the first time I met them. I really liked them. Because I could tell within a few minutes that they are my kind of couple. They lean towards each other when they talk, they make eye contact with one another even if they’re talking to someone else, they laugh,...

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