I woke up this morning and peered outside. With a coy smile on my face I thought no way would my bridesmaids been down for this weather two years ago. Still a wonderful conversation piece, having our wedding ceremony outside in January {in Minnesota, mind you} is one of my many favorite memories of the day. While I can hardly…
When I first started shooting weddings nine years ago, I shot them solo. I’d show up alone with my film camera and do my thing. When I became a real business five years ago, I decided that I would rather hire an assistant/second shooter for all my weddings. Ever since, I have always had at least one additional photographer {and…
Howdy, howdy! It’s 2014, and I’m coming back from a hectically-restful, blissfully-happy, excellently-beautiful holiday vacation!! We celebrated 6 Christmases, I witnessed one beautiful birth which I will share in another post and rung in the New Year with a stellar wedding with my parents and sibs. It has been a pretty stellar two weeks, that’s for sure. I’ve had a…
While driving to a session yesterday, I got to thinking about relationships. The pseudo-connection we all feel by stalking Facebook updates and Instagram posts. I happen to know quite a bit about some people who I very rarely talk through the magic of the Interwebs. It’s interesting at the same time that it irks me. I mean, what would I…
Earlier this year, I purchased a seat to a Film Is Not Dead workshop with the infamous film photographer, Jonathan Canlas. Oddly enough, at the time, I had no clue who he was, what FIND was, or even how to load the medium format film camera I had just acquired, but for some reason my brain would not let me…