Saturday I got to go out and shoot Stephanie & Craig’s engagement session, It was the first chance I had to meet Craig, and it was great seeing Stephanie again. They’re both really sweet and a lot of fun to hang out with. Turns out Stephanie & I are both accident prone, so stay tuned for some really bizarre wedding photos in October. Kidding, hopefully.
That was probably my favorite picture from the senior portrait session I did with Desiree on Sunday. Her eyes are just gorgeous!
This session was a total blast, I got to catch up with an old friend of mine who was friends with the family, who I hadn’t seen in ages. These ladies were a lot of fun, what can you say when the portrait session starts out with this…
She totally did that all on her own, which is great! I love when people can be themselves and let that come across in their photos. Um, which brings me to this one…
Ok, that was all Desiree, well and maybe a bit of Heather coaxing. 🙂
That was like the hardest picture I’ve ever had to edit, I have like this total eye thing. Ha, ha, but I so had too. Ok, here’s some more from the shoot, enjoy.
Yeah, I know I have a total shoe issue, but I had too. 😀
Props to Mom for pointing out this cool truck we climbed into! Awesome location spotting!
More to come….
Saturday I was lucky enough to get invited along to a model bridal session Rick Jennisch set up. I’ll be getting the chance to 2nd shoot some weddings with him and his associate photographers this summer. I’m a big fan of his work, so I’m really excited about the opportunity! You can see some more of his images from this session on his blog here, here & here. He should have some of my shots up and posted in a few weeks, I’ll post a link as soon as they’re up. Or Keep checking his blog for updates.
I also got a chance to meet Melanie and Matt Bishop of MediaInnovations. I’ve seen some of their video work online and it’s fabulous, really artistic and high quality. Rick posted some of Melanie’s shots here. The models Rick brought for the shoot were awesome, Jayna and Sorcia were real troopers, climbing up buildings and practically freezing (the weather kind of sucked). They still managed to look gorgeous.
Updated: Media Innovations posted the video from the session, you can check it out here
After all the fun with the bridal session I had to hurry over to Black Hawk state park for a family session, with my all time favorite family the Huffmans. 🙂 You might remember a newborn session I did recently for them. This time we got the whole crew together. These guys seriously crack me up.
Bri & Dave are such a cute couple.
I love this picture of Bri with her new baby. So sweet.
These two are so adorable, he kept trying to give her bunny ears. Too cute.
I really need some help for this shoe addiction.
For some reason I wasn’t the least bit surprised when Rob ran up a tree. I think he might be part monkey. 🙂
This little cutie would not sit still for anything, I think maybe monkey runs in the family, lol.
I might be a little biased because she’s my sister and I know what an awesome person she is and how beautiful she is on the inside, but I really think my little sister is one of the most gorgeous people I know. On top of being super hot, she’s also a wonderful person, she just came back from a year over in Iraq, and came home to some circumstances almost as stressful, but throughout it all she’s remained strong and caring. I’ll stop gushing, but I’ve been really blessed with wonderful family. Anyways, when I got the chance to spend Sunday shooting bridal pictures of her, needless to say, I was pretty excited.
It almost didn’t happen though, we were supposed to shoot last weekend, but we got rain on Sunday, and then this week, it still looked a bit cloudy in the morning, and then she couldn’t get her hair done. I wound up doing her hair for her (I’m surprised it turned out, I’m a bit of a wash & go kind of girl, and unfortunately for my daughter, hairstyling isn’t where my talent lies), and we had my husband make the bouquet, look out for our new wedding package including hair and flowers, maybe I’ll get into cakes too. Kidding, lol.
I’m off for the rest of the week on vacation, one of my best friends is staying in town with us for the week so I doubt I’ll be getting much work done.
These are a few of my favorites from the session. Expect more to come soon.
I love the way they’re looking at each other here.
Shannon, who will be assisting me with weddings came along to help out. I love this image she captured. (Above)
When my mother-in-law Jean asked me to take Easter pictures of the kids(my two and my niece Autumn) this year I was a bit stumped on what to do. Last year we just did a white backdrop with flowers, so I wanted something different this year, so we headed out to the Pioneer Village out by Scott County Park. Unfortunately nothing wanted to go right, Easter was super early this year and so the grass was still mostly dead and even though it looked nice out, it was pretty cold. The poor girls didn’t want to take off their coats, so most of the pictures they’re doing more shivering than smiling, lol. Anyways it was at least a nice drive out there, and we had some fun playing. I did manage to get a few decent shots out of the whole thing too. The one at the top was my favorite.
My favorite shot of Crystal, she looks a bit grown-up in it. 🙁
My adorable niece
Anakin wasn’t going to have anything to do with looking at the camera, but he’s a cutie anyhow.
My beautiful daughter
Proper little ladies. 🙂
After sticking a camera in their face the whole trip I thought it was only fair to let the girls throw eggs at me. 🙂
