paula & matthew: wedding sneak peek

I just shot the most wonderful wedding with friend/photog Melinda Ver Meer second shooting with me. Thanks, Melinda! We had the most delightful time capturing Paula and Matthew’s magical day.

I’ll be doing a full post about this wedding soon, but I just couldn’t wait to share a few today.

Didn’t they have incredibly gorgeous flowers??? You can scroll through more images below using the arrow keys. More of their day coming next week. :)

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senior style

Wow! I must say I’ve never seen such a sense of style and excitement for a photo shoot as with Emily. I’m sure she’ll readily admit it, too, as it was a two-day shoot and one of the days was her birthday and she couldn’t think of a better thing to do on her birthday! Glad I could oblige.

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let your photos do the talking

I love grouping similar images from a photo shoot into storyboards to highlight relationships, love, personalities, or sequence of events. Here are some faves from a recent client with a cherub personality.

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All were created using our new 12×24 StoryBoard Papers. Perfect for 10×20 as well!


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dogwoods at dusk

As promised, here are some spring dogwoods (and a few tulips on the same evening).

All shot with my 70-300mm macro at 180-300 from f/4.6 to f/5.3, iso 200


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chasing the light…

Oh, how I love chasing the evening light (yes, for all who know me certainly not the morning light-except in Molokai, Dewitt!).

There were a few apple blossoms on a little tree growing wild in woods near our lake home and I just couldn’t playing with the light one evening.

And, I couldn’t resist the dogwoods at our local garden park. I don’t believe it’s common to have dogwoods in Minnesota, so what a treat! Photos of them coming soon!


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a few good men…

Had the pleasure of doing a few shoots to capture the images needed for this graduation gift from a father to his son.

Very meaningful words/story/imagery.


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