The photographer
Hello, I’m April.
I’m April Keller, a portrait photographer in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and a photography student who is still, happily, learning.
How this started
I grew up in Kansas, which means I grew up outside. Long horizons, big weather, and the kind of light that changes everything about a field between six and seven in the evening. I don’t think I understood that was going to matter to me until much later.
These days I’m a wife and a mom, and I’m working toward my bachelor’s degree in photography at Southern New Hampshire University. Currently a junior, currently with a lot of coursework open in one tab and a gallery to edit in another. Golden Willow grew out of that: photographing the people around me, then their friends, then people I had never met, until it turned into the thing I do.
Being a student while running a studio is not something I hide. It means I am shooting constantly, learning techniques that are actually current, and I have not settled into doing things one way because that is how I have always done them.
What a session is like
I shoot in natural light, on location, and almost always outdoors. Partly because that is where I am most comfortable, and partly because people relax outside in a way they never quite do in a studio with a backdrop behind them.
I also direct constantly. You will not be left standing in a field wondering what to do with your hands. I will tell you, and then I will keep talking until you have forgotten there is a camera pointed at you. That is usually where the photograph is.
Everything comes back to you fully edited, at full resolution, with a print release. No per-image pricing, no ordering appointment, no gallery you have to buy your way out of.
- Based in
- Stillwater, Oklahoma
- Originally from
- Kansas
- Studying
- BA Photography, SNHU
- Shoots
- Natural light, outdoors
- Also
- Wife and mom
- Does not photograph
- Weddings
Say hello
I’d love to hear what you’re planning.
Tell me who the session is for and roughly when, and I’ll come back with availability and a full price list within one business day.
Or reach out directly:
405-747-4957
goldenwillowphotos@gmail.com