Find the Best Photographers in Lee’s Summit

Jessica Marlene Photography LLC is a newborn, child, and family photographer based directly in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, serving the surrounding Kansas City metro area including Blue Springs, Independence, Raymore, and Belton. Client testimonials describe Jessica as professional, kind, thoughtful, and especially talented at working patiently with toddlers and newborns during the same family session — a skill that matters when a session includes both a brand-new baby and an active older sibling. As an LLC based in Lee’s Summit itself, Jessica Marlene Photography offers local families the convenience of working with an in-town photographer rather than driving to a neighboring suburb for a newborn session. The studio maintains active social media accounts on Facebook and Instagram where recent client work is regularly shared, and offers outdoor session options in addition to newborn portraiture. Reviewers consistently note that Jessica keeps sessions low-stress, an important quality for parents managing a newborn’s unpredictable feeding and sleep schedule during a photo session. For Lee’s Summit families who want a local, community-based photographer with a reputation for patience and a calm session experience, Jessica Marlene Photography is a genuine local option. 

Anne with a Cam has photographed maternity, newborn, and family sessions for Kansas City-area clients since January 2016, giving the studio 10 years of experience. Owner Anne is a Missouri native who grew up in Independence and started her photography business after having her own first child, a personal connection to newborn photography that shapes her candid, authentic approach to sessions. The studio markets specifically to Lee’s Summit families and offers newborn sessions both in a home studio setting and outdoors, giving parents flexibility in how they want their baby’s first portraits to look. Anne with a Cam uses a streamlined online booking system that lets clients reserve their date, pay a deposit, and complete session questionnaires entirely online — a convenience that matters for newborn sessions, which typically need to be scheduled quickly after a baby’s birth. As a mother of three daughters herself, Anne brings firsthand experience with newborns and young children to every session, helping put new parents at ease. For Lee’s Summit families who want a photographer with genuine personal investment in newborn and family photography, Anne with a Cam offers a decade of specialized experience and an easy digital booking process. 

Kimberly Diane Photography has specialized in newborn, maternity, senior, and family portraits in and around the Kansas City metro since 2015, giving the Liberty-based studio 11 years of experience. The studio is located on Historic Liberty Square and maintains a dedicated newborn photography page listing its services for families in Kansas City, Lee’s Summit, Blue Springs, and Liberty. Kimberly Diane Photography’s newborn sessions are currently booking in advance, with the studio’s website noting availability for due dates well into the future — a sign of consistent, ongoing demand from area families. The studio’s active presence across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok reflects a business that stays engaged with its client community and regularly shares recent newborn work. For Lee’s Summit families searching for a specialist who explicitly lists their city as a service area, Kimberly Diane Photography stands out for its clear newborn-specific booking process, including a deposit system for reserving a due-date session in advance. With over a decade in business and a service area that directly names Lee’s Summit, the studio is a solid option for parents planning ahead for their baby’s first professional portraits. 

Amy Kuntz Photography has served Kansas City-area families since 2008, giving the Independence-based studio 18 years of experience photographing newborns, babies, and families. Amy maintains a dedicated Lee’s Summit newborn and family photography page on her website, explicitly marketing her services to Lee’s Summit parents alongside her home base in Independence, Leawood, Olathe, Overland Park, Liberty, and Parkville. The studio’s portfolio includes classic wrapped newborn portraits shot with professional equipment, showcasing nearly two decades of refined technique for working with days-old babies. Client testimonials on the studio’s site consistently mention Amy’s professionalism, creativity, and flexibility with scheduling — an important quality for newborn sessions, which often need to be booked and rescheduled on short notice around a baby’s unpredictable arrival. With almost 20 years in business, Amy Kuntz Photography has built a long track record in the Kansas City newborn photography market, and her active service area coverage means Lee’s Summit families don’t have to look far outside the city to find an experienced specialist. For parents who value longevity and a proven approach to newborn posing and safety, Amy Kuntz Photography is a well-established option. 

Husband + Wife Photography is run by Josh and Terri, a husband-and-wife team who operate their newborn photography business out of a converted 1904 building in Kansas City’s historic West Bottoms, serving families throughout the metro including Lee’s Summit. With 15 years of experience, the team offers three distinct newborn packages: a Studio Newborn session, a Family Studio Newborn session that includes the whole family, and an In-Home Newborn session for parents who prefer their baby photographed in familiar surroundings. To protect the quality and attention given to every family, the studio intentionally limits itself to just two newborn sessions per week. That selective approach has helped the team build an 18-review base on Google. Lee’s Summit families choosing Husband + Wife Photography get the benefit of a true two-person team working together during the session — one photographer can focus on posing and soothing the baby while the other manages lighting and family members — a workflow advantage that solo photographers can’t easily replicate. The studio’s historic West Bottoms location adds a distinctive backdrop option, while the in-home package gives Lee’s Summit parents flexibility to skip the drive altogether with a newborn just days old. 

Aly Marie Photography operates out of Third Street Studio in downtown Lee’s Summit, at 237B SE Main Street, and has specialized in newborn photography for more than 14 years. The studio explicitly markets newborn sessions as its core specialty, distinct from its maternity offerings, and even runs a standing promotion giving clients a complimentary maternity session when they book a newborn session — a sign of how central newborn work is to the business. Google reviewers have given the studio a perfect 5.0-star rating across 19 reviews. Being located directly in downtown Lee’s Summit makes Aly Marie Photography one of the most convenient options for local families, with no travel required to a neighboring suburb for a newborn session in the delicate first two weeks of a baby’s life. With 14-plus years of experience working specifically with newborns, the studio has developed the practiced, gentle handling techniques that new parents look for when choosing a photographer for their days-old baby. For Lee’s Summit families who want an established, in-town specialist with a long track record and a spotless review rating, Aly Marie Photography at Third Street Studio is a strong choice. 

Sarah Savage Photography specializes in maternity and newborn photography for families across the Kansas City metro, including Lee’s Summit. The studio has built an outstanding reputation with a 5.0-star rating across 45 Google reviews, with clients consistently praising the photographer’s professionalism and the clean, well-organized studio setup used for newborn sessions. Sarah Savage focuses specifically on the maternity-to-newborn journey, meaning Lee’s Summit families can work with a photographer who specializes in exactly this stage of a baby’s life rather than a generalist who shoots everything from weddings to headshots. The studio’s newborn sessions are designed around the delicate needs of days-old babies, with client testimonials specifically calling out the studio’s cleanliness and the photographer’s professional, reassuring presence during the shoot. For Lee’s Summit parents who want a specialist rather than a generalist, Sarah Savage Photography’s exclusive focus on maternity and newborn work — combined with a strong review average — makes the studio a standout option. Families interested in newborn portraits can find dedicated Lee’s Summit information directly on the studio’s website, underscoring how actively the business markets to and serves the local community. 

Hartter Photography operates a dedicated newborn and maternity studio right in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, making it one of the few photographers on this list actually based in the city rather than a neighboring suburb. The studio’s newborn sessions are offered as a distinct service from its maternity work, and the photographer behind the lens is known for creating a calm, comfortable environment for new parents and their days-old babies. Hartter Photography has earned a 5.0-star rating across 63 Google reviews, reflecting consistent client satisfaction from Lee’s Summit and greater Kansas City metro families. Beyond newborn portraits, the studio offers milestone sessions for babies aged three to ten months and a dedicated one-year cake smash package, giving families a way to document their child’s entire first year with one trusted photographer. The studio’s in-town Lee’s Summit location makes it an especially convenient choice for local families who want to avoid a longer drive with a brand-new baby in tow. With a strong review base and a service lineup built specifically around infant milestones, Hartter Photography has become a go-to newborn photographer for the Lee’s Summit community. 

Anna Marie Photography has been photographing Kansas City-area newborns since 2009, giving the Blue Springs-based studio 17 years of hands-on experience guiding families through their baby’s first days. Anna has built a reputation across Eastern Jackson County — including Lee’s Summit — for calm, unhurried newborn sessions that let tired new parents relax while she handles the posing, wrapping, and soothing. Google reviewers have rated the studio 4.9 stars across 78 reviews, one of the highest review counts of any newborn photographer serving the Lee’s Summit area. Beyond newborn portraits, Anna Marie Photography offers milestone sessions and cake smash celebrations, so many Lee’s Summit families return again and again as their baby grows through the first year. The studio is located at 700 NE R.D. Mize Road in Blue Springs, just a short drive from Lee’s Summit, and books sessions during the crucial first two weeks of a newborn’s life when babies sleep most soundly for classic wrapped and posed portraits. With nearly two decades in business and a track record of hundreds of newborn sessions, Anna Marie Photography is a trusted, well-reviewed choice for Lee’s Summit families planning their baby’s first professional portraits. 

Farshad “Freddy” Rezvanianzadeh opened Freddy Photography in Lee’s Summit in 2015, but the perspective he brings to a wedding day was shaped well before that by years of traveling and photographing across different cultures, which shows up in how he approaches unfamiliar venues and family dynamics without a rigid template. His wedding coverage is built around natural storytelling — candid reception moments and guided group photos rather than an exhaustive list of forced poses — alongside detail shots of rings, decor, and the small elements couples spend months planning and often forget to photograph themselves. Coverage is customizable based on event type, guest count, venue, and timeline, with wedding photography pricing starting at $180 an hour, giving Lee’s Summit and Blue Springs couples a clear, hourly-rate entry point rather than an opaque package menu to decode. Every session ends with professionally edited final images rather than raw, unculled files. Based in Lee’s Summit and also serving Blue Springs and the greater Kansas City area, Freddy has built a decade-plus of local photography experience since founding the studio, with a portfolio that spans weddings alongside portrait and lifestyle work, giving him range beyond a single specialty when couples want a photographer comfortable across an entire wedding weekend. 

Carson Swisher grew up in Liberty, Missouri, and walked away from a day job around 2004 to shoot weddings full time, a decision that’s now given him more than two decades behind the camera across the Kansas City area. His work blends photojournalism with natural portraiture, an approach he describes as chasing real moments rather than manufacturing them, and it’s carried him well beyond the Midwest — his wedding portfolio includes destination work in Nashville, Maui, Destin, Playa Mujeres, Sanibel, and Jupiter Island alongside his core Kansas City and Lee’s Summit clientele. Off-site location shoots are a specialty, and he leans on pre-wedding planning conversations to understand a couple’s priorities before the day arrives rather than improvising a shot list on the fly. Beyond weddings, Carson also runs Swish Creative, a video production and content company, giving him a working understanding of motion and story pacing that shows up in how he sequences a wedding gallery. He’s married with a daughter, a detail that shows up in his approach to family formals — he says he shoots them the way he’d want his own family photographed. With 8 reviews and a perfect 5.0 rating on WeddingWire, his client base skews smaller but consistently enthusiastic, the kind of reputation built on repeat referrals rather than heavy advertising. 

Etienne’s path to wedding photography ran through mechanical engineering, not art school — he spent years designing mountain bikes for brands like Specialized and Cannondale, including a GT Fury model that won Bike of the Year and multiple World Cup titles, before relocating to Kansas City in 2019 and building ATN Photography around a documentary approach to weddings. That engineering background shows up in how he talks about the job: an analytical read of light and timeline paired with an artistic eye for the moment itself. Growing up on a vineyard in southern France, with a great-grandfather who was the painter Henri Zuber, gave him an early, unglamorous exposure to craft and patience that he says carries directly into how he shoots. His style favors minimal disruption — documenting rehearsal dinners, ceremonies, and receptions as they naturally unfold rather than stopping the day for staged setups. He offers second-shooter coverage and full digital galleries with albums, and meets prospective Lee’s Summit clients at coffee shops downtown or in Leawood and Overland Park, treating the first conversation as seriously as the shoot itself. On WeddingWire, ATN Photography holds a 5.0 rating across a growing base of client reviews who consistently describe him as feeling like part of the wedding party rather than a hired vendor. 

Bryan Logan runs Logan Photography as a father-daughter operation, working alongside his daughter Madilyn to cover weddings across the Kansas City region from their Lee’s Summit base. The two split duties on wedding days, giving couples both a primary photographer’s eye and a dedicated second shooter without hiring an outside contractor who’s never worked with the lead photographer before. Their style is built around dramatic, documentary-leaning images — candid over posed, cinematic over flat — and the studio pairs photography with videography for couples who want their day captured in motion as well as in stills. Consultations happen over coffee rather than a formal sales pitch, an approach Bryan uses to get a real read on what a couple wants before any contract is signed. Turnaround is a consistent selling point: fully edited wedding galleries typically arrive within two weeks, noticeably faster than many studios juggling a longer backlog. On WeddingWire the studio holds a 5.0 rating across 14 reviews, with clients specifically calling out how quickly Bryan gets photos back and how comfortable Madilyn’s presence makes group shots feel, since having a second familiar face on-site tends to put wedding parties at ease faster than a stranger with a second camera would. 

Josh and Terri work as a true husband-and-wife team, running their studio out of a 1904 building in Kansas City’s historic West Bottoms and photographing weddings, maternity, newborn, and family sessions across Lee’s Summit and the surrounding metro. With more than 15 years photographing weddings together, they’ve developed a shorthand that shows up in how they cover a wedding day — one usually anchors ceremony and formal portraits while the other works the room for candid guest moments, so nothing has to be sacrificed to a single vantage point. Their stated approach centers on timeless imagery and honest connection, favoring natural, unposed sessions over heavily directed ones, which tends to appeal to couples who find traditional posed portraiture stiff. Beyond local Kansas City weddings, they also take on select destination weddings for couples marrying further afield. Client reviews frequently mention the ease of working with them from the first inquiry through final delivery, and at least one client has continued booking annual family sessions with the pair for over a decade after their wedding. With 18 reviews on WeddingWire, their reputation has built steadily on repeat referrals as much as first-time bookings, which for a two-person studio is a meaningful signal of consistency. 

Debra Lawrence runs Abundant Moments Photography as a deliberately small operation — the studio caps itself at around five weddings a year, a boutique model that stands out in a market where many studios chase volume. That restraint is backed by more than 20 years behind the camera and upward of 800 weddings photographed over the course of her career, giving her a depth of experience most newer studios haven’t had time to build. Every wedding collection includes every image from the day in high-resolution, fully retouched form, typically 1,200 to 1,800 photos, rather than a curated subset that leaves couples wondering what didn’t make the cut. Sneak-peek slideshows go out within a week of the wedding, with full galleries following in about two weeks. Debra frames the work less as event photography and more as heirloom-making, describing the goal as artwork meant to be cherished for generations rather than files that sit unopened in a folder. Based in Lee’s Summit with 20 reviews and a 4.7 rating on WeddingWire, clients consistently point to her warmth and attentiveness during the actual shoot, the kind of comfort that shows up later in how relaxed everyone looks in the final images. 

Aventi Weddings was built by founder Austin Christian on a specific bet: that couples are tired of coordinating separate photographers, videographers, and planners who’ve never worked together before their wedding day. So Aventi keeps photography, videography, and day-of coordination under one in-house team, which the studio has used to shoot more than 700 weddings across roughly seven years in business. The photography style is described internally as editorial at heart but documentary by nature — meaning portraits are composed with intention, while everything else is left to unfold and get captured as it happens. Every photography package includes a complimentary engagement session and up to twelve hours of wedding-day coverage, and galleries are delivered in about two weeks, faster than the four-to-eight week wait common at many studios. Images come with full copyright release and a personal app portal, so couples aren’t stuck downloading files from a shared drive link. With 21 reviews and a perfect rating on WeddingWire, Aventi has built a fast-growing reputation among Kansas City and Lee’s Summit couples who want their vendor list simplified rather than expanded, without giving up a true-to-color, unfiltered final product. 

Leah Gunn Emerick has spent close to a decade building LGEmerick Photography into one of Kansas City’s more decorated studios, having been voted the area’s best photography business multiple years running in The Pitch’s annual reader poll — a competition that pits her against every genre of photographer in the metro, not just wedding specialists. Her work blends contemporary composition with a photojournalistic instinct for catching things as they actually happen, which is part of why her images have run in Lovely Magazine and The Perfect Palette. Weddings are her core business, but the studio also handles engagement sessions, boudoir, and trash-the-dress shoots, giving couples a single photographer relationship that can span the entire lead-up to the wedding rather than a one-day vendor handoff. Every package is customized rather than pulled from a rigid tier system, which she frames as a response to how differently couples actually want their days documented. With more than 100 five-star reviews across platforms and 21 specifically tied to her Lee’s Summit-area wedding work, the consistency of her ratings suggests the reputation is earned rather than inflated. Clients highlight how genuinely fun the sessions feel, which for a studio built on capturing authentic moments is close to the whole point. 

Royal Photography operates out of a home base in Lee’s Summit but the work itself ranges well past city limits — owner Sam Jordan books weddings and engagements across the greater Kansas City metro and takes on destination weddings when couples want their photographer to fly with them. The studio’s approach leans toward documenting rather than staging: real reactions during the ceremony, unscripted moments at the reception, portraits that feel like a natural pause in the day rather than an interruption of it. Sam has been recognized twice with WeddingWire’s Best of Weddings award, a distinction that only goes to vendors who maintain high ratings and booking volume year over year, and the 27 reviews on the platform back that up with a perfect 5.0 average. Clients frequently describe the experience as low-pressure, noting that Sam makes the actual shoot feel enjoyable rather than clinical, which matters most during formal family portraits when patience tends to run thin. Packages are built to be creative and affordable rather than tiered add-on menus, aiming to keep pricing conversations simple for couples already juggling a dozen other wedding vendors. For Lee’s Summit couples wanting a locally based photographer with metro-wide reach, Royal Photography has built its reputation on precisely that balance. 

Cassandra Marie built her business around a photography degree and a fascination with how people act when they think no one important is watching them — which, on a wedding day, turns out to be almost the whole day. Working out of the Kansas City area with a regular presence in Lee’s Summit weddings, she splits her calendar between full wedding coverage, engagement sessions, and boudoir work, and treats all three as versions of the same skill: getting someone to relax in front of a camera. Every couple gets a consultation before booking, where she asks about the venue, the timeline, and what kind of photos they actually want on their walls in ten years, not just what’s trending this season. For larger weddings she brings in a second shooter so candid reception moments and formal portraits get covered simultaneously instead of sequentially. She’s also willing to travel for destination weddings, an option she promotes directly on her site rather than treating as a special exception. Reviewers consistently mention how quickly she turns around finished galleries and how comfortable she makes people feel who normally hate being photographed. With 56 reviews and a perfect rating on WeddingWire, she’s one of the most consistently booked photographers serving Lee’s Summit couples. 

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