The beach

I photographed A with the same lake as a background as my first senior. These photographs were taken just 8 miles down the beach. I love the variety of the big lake!

First senior of the year

How does this look?

Family Portraits

For a year now I have been offering a free sitting to families with members in our military. The Y family took advantage of this and met me on the shores of the big lake. I was so excited when they showed up all wearing some form of red. It photographs so well with the soft blues and greens of this beautiful beach!

I was able to get a couple of great shots of the entire family and then just the children.

Thanks Y family for making the drive out to see me last weekend! Hope you enjoy your photos!

Flowers and a little girl

T is now 18 months! She has such a fun and CRAZY personality. As soon as we set her in the forget -me-nots she decided that she didn't want to be in them and face whined for about one minute then her mom started throwing flowers at her and she was fine.

 Helping dad throw sand back into a hole.

MIA

So I realized that I have not posted in a while. I will have to be more on the ball from now on. I have a few more wedding photos, three children, a family, two seniors, and a group of 76 teens that I have to blog about. Today I did a practice run with 76 teens and I want your opinion on what could be changed a bit. I already have some ideas... Sunday is the real photo so I have a little bit of time.

In November I did engagement photos for M and S. They were such a fun couple to work with and in April I traveled 450 miles to photograph their wedding and had SOOO much fun!

 I was very lucky to capture this moment between the two of them. You can just tell how much they love each other.

 M and the girls. It was supposed to rain and it had all day on Friday so we were so happy for the sun...or at least everyone else was but me...I like fog.

 S and his men.

 The shore of one of the great lakes made a perfect background.

 And a marina! I was so excited to get to photograph the couple at one of my favorite locations...water, boats, docks...who can not LOVE a marina.

You can just see the love between these two! I was so happy to be able to spend your special day with you. Thank you so much M and S!

Wedding day morning

On the morning of my wedding day we got ready at my home. I had a friend come over to cook breakfast for about 15 girls. We got our hair done, ate, and got dressed. Then the photographers nightmare...late groom. But even with D being an hour late I wasn't worried...I had planned for this and we still had three hours of photography for just D and me.

My flowers, shoes, head piece, ring and grandmothers necklace.

The window was one of my favorite places for K to take photos.

Our first look.

Just a small sneak preview...

These 5 photos are less than 1% of the photos that K and W took on D and my wedding day! I was so lucky to have such fantastic photographers! I sure like being on the other side of the camera though, it was hard not shooting myself but both girls did an amazing job! These are just a few for now so enjoy!

A beautiful spring day in April

Two weeks ago I traveled to photograph this wedding. K got ready for the day at her parents home and I found this trunk and just had to use it for some of the details of the day. I loved her red shoes and flowers.

 K and J's first look.

 This was my favorite spot to photograph K and J. I just loved the brown for the background. K and J took a few hours to be photographed without the bridal party. I love when a bride and groom do this because lets them spend some time alone (of course I'm there along with my assistant) on a crazy busy day.

 After photographing the cat tails for almost an hour...hehe we headed into the woods. The sun started to come out and the wind died down. There had been rain in the forecast but we were lucky and it held off for the most part!

 Bridges! I love bridges! Plus the red brush in front of them...LOVE!

 K and J were so much fun to photograph and the wedding party was a hoot.

 Last stop in the park was by this fence.

 Someone brought this french toast from one of J "favorite" places to eat. It traveled 500 miles to make it to his dinner plate!

K and J thank you so much for letting me be a part of your special day. It was such a fun and relaxing day for the first wedding of the season.