I often feel blessed in and through my work, and usually that comes back to the wonderful couples that I work with. Karin & Alex are a perfect example of that. Two incredibly kind, genuine and really remarkable people, it was such a pleasure to document their wedding day! Karin is one of those classic […]

I’m listening to music while getting this blog post ready, and as I look at these photos I’m getting a little teary! Kinda weird? It must be a combination of the music and the photos that just brings me back to the moment, and I just loved working with Barb & Chris so much. They […]

Last weekend Lauren, Brett & I roamed in and around Millenium Park for their engagement session. I knew we would be a match made in heaven when Lauren said: We want the park area, but not the bean…is that going to be ok? Oh yes…that is always ok with me. It was great get to […]

This is a huge blog post…bigger than average, for sure. It seemed impossible to convey all of the awesomeness of Chris & Carolyn’s wedding in a regular sized post, so just bear with me! Not only was there detail perfection, and every vendor wonderful, but the people put this wedding over the top. Chris & […]

I’ve been thinking about how so many portrait sessions are over the top posed/staged, to the point where you somehow lose the real nature of the people being photographed. I thought it would be fun to try doing some portrait sessions where I take myself out of the equation as much as possible, where I […]

A couple of weeks ago I got a voicemail from a bride asking me if I was available to shoot her wedding (not unusual) …two weeks later (a little outside the norm for me!). Fortunately I was shooting a wedding on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, and Kirsten and Dan were planning an intimate […]