About Shylia

Ten years. Four kids. One camera.

I'm a mom first and a photographer second. But those two things are inseparable.

Headshot pending

My Story

Why I built this

I've been photographing families in Western New York for ten years. I have four kids of my own. And at some point I started noticing something that I couldn't stop noticing: every parent, at some moment during a session, would look at their child and you could see something shift in their face. Like they were seeing someone else.

They were seeing themselves. Or their mom. Or a sibling they lost. Or someone from a photo on a shelf at their grandmother's house.

That's the "glitch in time." That's what I built this around.

I wanted to make those connections visible — through portrait sessions that bring multiple generations into the same frame, through artistic blending of old family photos with new ones, and through keepsakes that aren't just pretty pictures but actual artifacts. Something you can hold. Something that lasts.

The digital heirloom drive came from that. Every edited image from your session — full resolution, on a drive that's yours to keep forever. Something you can hand to your kids someday. Something that doesn't expire.

10+

Years photographing families

4

Kids of my own

WNY

Western New York proud

Ready to make a glitch?

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