Senior Portraits

Here are a few of my favorites from a recent senior session of Marissa. Such a sweet girl. She had her hair done at a salon for the session, I just love how her curls and braid turned out!

The year is half over!

Wow, hard to believe July is here already. I have been busy, busy. Lots of posts and photos to come soon. Senior session is in full swing which is great. I love getting to know them as they are all so unique in their own ways. Quite a few of them make me feel like I was a bit lazy in high school, they are in SO many activities on top of having jobs and piles of homework. Below is a photo from a wedding I shot in June, I love that she walked right out into the aisle. I think we may have a future photographer on our hands?!?


Happy 4th of July! I will also be celebrating my friend's wedding this weekend. Adam & Catie are getting married on the beach, should be beautiful! Lots of photos to come soon.

In my spare time...

As much as I love to photograph people I first fell in love with photographing landscapes, nature, buildings, anything really. Digital has brought photography such a long way but there are many days that I miss film! I recently pulled out my daylab to play around with polaroid transfers but of course, I don't decide to do this until 9:30 at night. So, I stayed up way too late...but it was worth every minute!


Polaroid transfer

Polaroid emulsion transfer. Basically you are using one side of the film for the transfer and the other side it lifted off for the emulsion transfer.

A future photographer?

I brought my niece Lexi to work with me today for bring your daughter to work day (her mom is currently a student). Had a blast taking her on a photo shoot at a nearby park, she got some great shots and really enjoyed it. Here is one of my favorites!

Miss B is all grown up

This little sweetie came in as a newborn and I know I say it all the time but I can't believe how much they change in that first year! She wasn't quite walking which is the best time to come in for the one year portraits because most times when they walk, then start to run pretty soon after.





I know my blog has been neglected lately...life has been busy as usual. Our house is on the market now which is bittersweet for us. It was our very first house and we love it and all the character but plan to move my business into the home in the near future so we need something bigger and closer to Kaukauna. I have also been keeping busy with some personal projects. I love creating art with my polaroid transfers and shooting landscapes. I am really trying to get out there more and do it since that it what first got me hooked on photography. Some pictures of those to come soon. I am loving this warm weather lately!!

Ideas for portraits in your home

Here are two sets of image series that a bride and groom chose for there home. They wanted it to be more of their "wedding art" than a traditional posed portrait. These below are all wrapped canvas prints...they were lucky to be married on such a colorful day!



They decided on a colored border for these so that we would not have to crop into any of the image. They chose dark brown to match the rest of their decor. There are so many great options for canvas now such as custom sizes and custom colored borders.



This series is black & white metallic prints in extra wide frames instead of using matting. Metallic has a gorgeous finish so it gets framed without glass.

Wedding February 6th, 2010

Congratulations to Jesse & Tara! They had a great weather day for winter with the sun out all day. Beautifully winter wedding with fur capes and muffs, a horse & carriage, a snowflake cake, ice sculpture, etc!