Klein Family

Family portraits are not something I do very often compared to weddings, but I enjoy it when I get the chance. Val and I spent a little time with the Klein family at the UW Arboretum a couple weeks ago shooting some family pictures. The clouds made the day seem a little gloomy, but it turned out to be perfect for photos. We had a great time working with little Lauren - she had such a cute smile and was in a great mood for almost the whole shoot! I love just letting kids be themselves and capturing their different moods and their amazing curiosity about the world around them.

The good weather almost running out for this fall, but there's still time if you would like to get an appointment in for your family or kids. Give us a call!

Heather and Jason's Wedding

Heather and Jason have been such a wonderful couple to work with. For their engagement portraits they braved the snowy winter streets of downtown Madison, and on their wedding day we spent some time wandering around the downtown area again. Photos are very important them, so it was a real honor that they chose me to document their day, and they did a great job of providing me with some incredible photo opportunities.
Their wedding ceremony and reception were held at the Madison Concourse Hotel, so we were only a short walk, or carriage ride, from the Capitol and Monona Terrace. It was fun walking with Heather and Jason and the rest of the wedding party through the maze of street vendors on State Street and around the Capitol. Needless to say we were easily the best-dressed group at the farmer’s market that day!
There were so many great photo opportunities that day that I was overwhelmed with awesome photos, but here are a few of my favorites. Enjoy!

Fair Warning - Packages and Prices Changing

I just wanted to let everyone know that packages and pricing for wedding photography will be changing as of November 16, 2007. If you are considering booking for your date in 2008 or beyond, you will need to have a completed and signed contract by that date in order to lock in the current prices and packages. Beginning November 16th things will be changing.
Prices will be going up, but I think the value of the packages will be going up too. We've got some great new goodies that we're including in the new packages, and we're including more of the goodies we have now, like brag books, that everyone has loved so much. Check in with the website on November 16th for the updates. Cheers!

Melissa and Andrew

So I know I’ve been a little behind on my blogging lately, but it’s only because I’ve been working like mad to try and get wedding photos and engagement photos finished up. Melissa and Andrew were married in Milwaukee on September 2nd and I think it was one of my favorite weddings of the year to photograph. The ceremony was in a very large church and the reception was held at the Milwaukee Grain Exchange, which was also a very large room with some spectacular architecture. Andrew and Melissa have a great sense of style that showed through on their wedding day and they did some unique things like cupcakes, a Polaroid guestbook, and they hired one of the best live bands I’ve ever heard at a wedding - The Love Monkeys.

Between the ceremony and the reception Val and I and the wedding party made a stop at the Milwaukee Art Museum for photos. It’s one of the most photographed spots in Milwaukee and it’s VERY popular for wedding photos, but this was my first time there. We had awesome clear blue skies, and luckily my flashes behaved so I could get some good lighting despite the harsh sunlight. My favorite shots of the day though were from later on that evening. Val and I snuck Melissa and Andrew out from the dance and we went around the corner into the alley. I’m sure they thought I was a little nuts going into the grimy alley, but I thought it was a great space with some very cool texture … and maybe a little smell too.

Check back tomorrow for more of what I've been working on lately! Enjoy!

My Magic Music Box

It's been a wild couple of weeks. Tons of weddings and other photography projects to post-produce, traveling all over the country shooting the fall colors (which I'll have a post on soon), lots of engagement portraits and meetings with my awesome clients, and maybe some exciting news from Valerie and I soon! (No, she's not pregnant.) It's back to work now though after traveling all last week, and I've been spending lots of time with the computer working on photos. I love listening to music while I work and my friend Beckman turned me on to this website called Pandora. I thought I'd pass it along to you because I have totally fell in love with it and I think it's a fantastic site for any music lover. Basically you enter in a song title or artist and it programs a music channel filled with similar music - usually from awesome artists you've never heard of. I can't describe how nice it is to hear such a fresh stream of music! Occasionally it will play a song that doesn't quite jive, but they've designed handy guiding tools to customize the stream to what you want to hear. It's FANTASTIC! Check it out: Pandora


Here's some links to what I've been listening to lately. Cheers!

Moby Radio

Portishead Radio