The Open Shutter wants to put YOUR "HAPPY" on YOUR WALLS.

The Open Shutter is a personal wall décor specialty studio. Everything is custom designed and created for YOU. You can be confident in Chris' 30 years of experience in portrait and photographic knowledge. Her goal is to find what brings you joy and makes you happy, then work that into your session. It may be your family session, but on a special location because it is where the family vacations every year. Or at the family cabin. It could be your best friend and fur-baby on a hunting trip. Or an aerial view of your boat on your favorite lake. Whatever is your "happy" Chris wants to be able to get it on your wall for you to enjoy every day.

When working with Chris, she will ask numerous questions about what you are wanting for the final piece for your wall. This is a collaboration between you and Chris which is discussed at great length during the Planning Session prior to any photography. With this knowledge, she will make recommendations about the space you are wanting to fill - colors, style, size, medium, etc. If wall décor isn't your fit, she also has designed many coffee table albums for her clients. She will work with your budget to help you get what you want.

The Open Shutter had served the North Central Ohio area from 1997-2016 specializing in Child and Family Portraits. Chris displays her creativity in the portraits by collaborating with her clients to strive for the best quality, variety, responsibility, and custom-oriented service.

After moving to Alaska her life perspective changed. She found JOY... Joy was a life-saving emotion that was hers. She has a heightened value for the joy in each of our lives. It gets us through the rough patches of life. She found joy in photography again, joy in being a solo traveler, joy in the little things, joy in special moments with family, joy and laughter with friends, joy in God.

My joy or happy isn't necessarily yours. We all have that something that makes our soul flutter or puts a smile on our face. You know what it is... that is what I want to capture for you. I want to put that kind of happy on your walls. And imagine you get to relive those moments every day that you see it. Your wall décor will also be an amazing conversational piece about your "Happy."

You can tell a lot about a person by what he has on his walls.