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About Janre Photography

Janre Photography is a husband and wife business that is run by Renee and Jason Hennagir. We primarily serve the Twin Cities metro area. Our studio is within an old shipping warehouse located on the east side of downtown St. Paul.

Janre Photography was originally established in 2009 under Renee's name: 'Renee Michelle Photography'. Once 2010 arrived, they re-branded their business as "Janre", which is a mutated acronym of the words "JAson aNd REnee". It's intended to sound like the word. 'genre', but they don't really care how you pronounce it. An image of their son peering over the railing of a dock eventually became their logo.

Renee and Jason started out photographing weddings for most of 2009 and 2010. Since then they have veered away from photographing weddings and events in order to tackle all kinds of in-studio sessions and share their summers with their son.

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12.18.2012

Rodriguez Family

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I met the Rodriguez family from my other employer. They come in somewhat frequently and I had always wanted to comment on how cute their baby was. I am usually busy, so it is very rare that I can chat with people at any length.

I had a slow moment when they were there, so approached them and commented that their baby (Ethan) is very cute. We struck up a small conversation and eventually I gave them a card. She contacted me a couple days later and we setup a date to start the session. The session was suppose to be on December 9th but that is the day we had that horrible winter storm. She called me, and we both agreed the session had to be rescheduled for another day. Safety first!

As you will see below we did some fun holiday ones and some that we were just having fun.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the Rodriguez Family!! I hope to work with you in 2013.

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12.14.2012

Holiday Session With Heim Family

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Josh, Mary and Weston has been on quite a few of my blog posts. They wanted to do a holiday theme for the photographs. I was excited for the fun ideas.

Weston Really enjoyed the candy cane I let him play with. He was hitting Mary in the mouth, almost hit dad in the head. It was fun!!

Then I had to get Weston something else besides the candy cane, so I distracted him with something else. He was being a fun little one year old, Walking and exploring.

We had a blast!

Happy Holidays to the Heim Family!!!

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11.26.2012

Adam & Sarah

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Adam and Sarah are a very easy going couple and you could tell that they were very much in love. They wanted to start taking photos at Minnehaha Falls. They both couldn’t wait to see each other. Adam nervously waited for Sarah under the trellis and she was walking faster than normal. When they saw each other for the first time, they both lit up.

The waterfall was roaring very well and it was somewhat chilly that day. They told me that the waterfall was not running when they went there to look around, so it was nice to get some shots of them with the falls in the background. Later on they wanted to get a photo of rings with their parents who have been married for 50 years.

It was really nice working with these two lovebirds and I hope to work with them in the future.

Congratulations !

~ Renee

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11.20.2012

Sean & Ashley

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I knew Ashley from a previous employer. So it was nice to work with her on her engagement session.

Ashley and Sean are very easy going people, so they were up for whatever I had in mind. We had a lot of fun as you will see below. It was a beautiful, mild day to do their session. We did the photos at Battle Creek Park which has caves, train tracks and even some small water features.

They kept saying they were not very “romantico” with each other so I told them that they needed to be just for this hour. It was pretty comical.

I had a wonderful time with them. I am very excited to work with them on their wedding in 2013.

~ Renee

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10.29.2012

Dan & Becky

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Dan and Becky had their ceremony outdoors. We had to go to Wisconsin, passed Eau Claire. Dan and Becky were very positive even though it rained/ sprinkled the whole day. They were wonderful to work with. We had a blast even though it was very wet.

The colors in the trees were beautiful and they had given the guests some pebbles to through in the small pond. Dan and Becky had big rocks to throw to represent their love.

The ushers were having a hard time keeping the chairs from getting wet. They had towels trying to wipe them off for the guests. They did great for what they were working with.

After the ceremony they had a big bus, they went to a little bar. We took fun pictures there as well.

Congrats to the wonderful couple, I hope we can work together in the near future.