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Five Willows Photography

Photos that feel like home | Families + Seniors | 35mm film + digital | Bottineau, ND + surrounding areas

Created to Create — All for His Glory.

Cultivating home while preserving memories of yours.

10/27/2026

Little miss Livi ❤️

A perfect afternoon with the Moum party of 3 + the pups and ponies! 🫶

10/20/2026

Maddie A.
BHS senior

Have you ever come across someone and know within 10 seconds of meeting them that they have such a pure heart? That’s Maddie ❤️

This beautiful gal had the most perfect summer evening for her photos and the sunflowers really showed up in all their blooming glory for us! I had such a fun time with her and her mama!

10/14/2026

A morning with the Serhienko crew!

This sweet family is one of my “OGs” being one of the first families I photographed alllll the way back in my college days! It’s so fun to watch families grow over the years ❤️❤️

10/06/2026

Ryan and Brenda ❤️
Digital + 35mm film

I’ve been sitting on these photos for over a year waiting for these two love birds to have their anniversary! Their session was my last one of 2025 before I went on maternity leave and it was the best way to close out the year!

If you know these two, you know they’re a good time! I thought I might go into labor being around these two and laughing so hard hahahah! They are so freaking goofy and adorable together!

I took their wedding photos wayyy back in 2020 and they wanted a five year anniversary shoot in their wedding attire and it was so much fun! We were aiming for full-on “redneck” and it was absolutely perfect 🤣

1. Cheap w**e and b**r picnic ✅
2. Side by side rides ✅
3. Hunting shack and bow ✅
4. Climbing hay bales ✅
5. Boating in the stock pond ✅

AND THEY NAILED IT!

Another funny moment worth mentioning: Ryan was trying to be uber romantic and wanted to write “love boat” on the side of the canoe………then he ran out of spray paint so it just said “love” 🤣🤣☠️☠️

Love these two and the love they have for each other. This session will live rent free in my brain hahaha!

10/01/2026

Rylan B.
RHS Senior

I think Rylan is one of the classiest young men I’ve ever met! His fave attire? Suit and tie. His car of choice? A BMW. He’s a hard worker and already has plans to start his own business. This dude is going places!!

09/27/2026

Gave the kids at this session a little half-frame film camera = got some sick behind the scenes pics back 🤣☠️

09/24/2026

Our Gracie girl is ONE. 🥹

I’ll probably spend part of today looking through pictures from when she was brand new and crying my eyeballs out lol!

At one, Gracie is our laid-back, go-with-the-flow girl. She’s always been such an easy baby—just happy to come along for whatever chaos the rest of us have going on.

She eats pretty much anything, but bananas + ice cream are at the top of the list. And since I started making homemade ice cream this year, she has made it VERY clear that we are not allowed to take a bite without giving her one first. 😂

She says “Dada,” calls the kitty “ta-ta,” waves, does “so big,” and pulls herself up on everything—but has absolutely no interest in walking yet. 😂 When she gets really excited, she rolls her little ankles while bouncing her butt up and down, and it’s one of my favorite things in the entire world!

She loves watching Corbin + Jude be completely unhinged, unraveling toilet paper, chasing our poor completely-over-it cat, and being wherever her mama and daddy are.

Her greatest enemy? Getting dressed. You would think we were committing an actual crime against her every single time. 😂

One of my favorite things is walking into her room after a nap or in the morning and watching her whole face light up when she sees me. I wish I could bottle that up forever. ❤️

It has been so fun watching her little personality unfold this year—learning what makes her laugh, what she loves, what she absolutely does NOT love, and watching her fit into our family like she was always supposed to be here.

Because she was.

We didn’t plan on having a third baby. We thought our family was probably complete. But the good Lord had other plans for us, and I’m so incredibly thankful He did.

Because we needed our Gracie girl. ❤️

She brought something into our family that I didn’t even know we were missing. So much love. So much sweetness. And in the middle of the loud, messy chaos of raising three little kids, somehow a little bit of peace, too.

I can’t imagine our family without our sweet, easygoing GG in it.

Happy first birthday, Gracie baby. What a gift it is to get to know and love you! ❤️

09/23/2026

Just over here screamin’ because I’ve been published!

One of my Homegrown sessions was featured in the latest issue of Heartful Magazine , curated by the incredibly talented Brooke Schultz - Creativity 🌟 —and this one feels pretty dang special.

Heartful has been my all-time favorite photography magazine and a constant source of inspiration for me. I’ve spent so much time flipping through its pages, admiring the honest, soulful stories and incredible artists featured there, so seeing my own work among those pages feels a little surreal.

Brooke, thank you for creating a publication that celebrates family photography for what I believe it can be—artful, honest, imperfect, emotional, and deeply meaningful. And thank you for choosing this image I hold so close to my heart to be a small part of it. It is such an honor. ❤️

And I couldn’t have asked for a more meaningful session to be featured.

Last year, I spent an afternoon documenting four generations of Kristin’s family, including her 94-year-old grandma, Angeline. We cross-stitched, wandered out to the barn, loved on kittens, ate Jell-O, made her famous homemade dish, and photographed the ordinary rhythms of being together.

A few months later, Angeline passed away.
It really makes a person realize that the stuff that felt so ordinary at the time isn’t so ordinary at all.

Kristin, thank you for trusting me with this piece of your family’s story. I’ll forever be grateful I got to document it—and now, to see it preserved in these pages too. ❤️

The digital issue is FREE to view, and if you’re a lover of photography, storytelling, or simply beautiful things, I can’t recommend Heartful enough.

And if you’d like a printed copy (which you KNOW I’ll be getting 😂), comment PRINT26 on any of Heartful Magazine’s posts for details on ordering.

Now excuse me while I go freak out a little more about seeing my work in my favorite magazine!

09/18/2026

Maddie O.

This pretty gal came all the way from Colorado for her senior pics. She’s been coming to Lake Metigoshe in the summer her whole life and knew she wanted her photos here which I think is so special! ❤️

I’ve been loving all the ideas my seniors have been coming with for their sessions and Maddie was no exception! She brought along her super cute fluffy pup, her bible and books, wakeboard, her childhood stuffy—Cookie Monster and her super cool Senior pants she made!

Also, I just have to go off on a side tangent here— I am so dang proud of this generation of young adults. The amount of seniors I’ve had this year that has openly expressed their love for Jesus has been so refreshing. And the fact that Maddie’s Bible was at the top of her list for photos is so incredibly amazing!

09/10/2026

A little fall availability update 🍂

I’m down to my last 2 Fall Mini spots for September 20th + my last 2 full-session openings in October!

🍂 Fall Minis — September 20
20 minutes • $275 • 10 images included
option to upgrade to the full gallery

And these aren’t just for families! Use your mini for family, senior, couples, branding, milestone photos—or simply because you want some updated photos. If 20 minutes is all you need, come hang out with me! ( Like Caylla and her pup pictured here! ❤️)

You can book a mini here:
https://companyname75582.hbportal.co/schedule/6a8a60eea0a52fad9f106648

🍂 October Full Sessions
For families who want a little more time to slow down, explore, and document more of this season together. Shoot me a message for availability!

I’ll likely continue shooting into November as weather allows, but because North Dakota gets the final say on that one , I’m not opening a set November calendar. We will play it by ear!

Can’t wait to spend some fall evenings with you guys 🤎

Address

116 5th Street W
Bottineau, ND
58318

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Website

http://www.fivewillowsphotography.com/

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