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Sherry + Luke’s Wedding: It may have been at a country club, but it felt like being home.

When I first met with Sherry, I knew instantly that I liked her.  She has a charming smile and an infectious laugh that make you feel right at home.  When we chatted about her and Luke’s engagement session, she said she wanted a barn in the background because Luke grew up on a farm.  Gale Woods Farm…

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Kristy & Garret: A Simply B-Beautiful Minneapolis Wedding

Kristy and Garret’s wedding day was beautiful – and hot – and freakishly humid.  So much so that we had to abandon our original plan of a pre-ceremony portrait session at Lake Harriet’s Peace Garden.  But being a wedding photographer means always having a Plan B, so instead of an outdoor session we switched gears to…

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Erin & Brian: A Calhoun Beach Club Love Story

If you’ve ever read a word of my blog, you know I’m a sucker for a good love story and I’m a big fan of symmetry.  Erin and Brian gave me both. When I shot their engagement session at the Peace Gardens at Lake Harriet, I knew that they were my kind of couple.  They’re…

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Karma Delivers the Perfect Storm of Weddings

I love it when the UPS truck pulls up to our house.  There’s always something good inside, and today was especially good.  My new sample album arrived from Italy! I spent hours upon hours designing this 12×16 monster, sweating every little detail, making sure I told the story of Meghan and Brandon’s wedding with gorgeous and…

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It’s always the light.

I was reading David Williams’  foreward to Neil Van Niekerk’s book when one sentence stopped me in my tracks:  The answer is never the gear, it’s always the light.    It instanly made me think of my own work, of images and moments that were created by beautiful, dramatic, gorgeous, delicious light.  Here are some of my favorites.

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