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my life lately.

Once wedding season is in full-swing here in Michigan,I have so many photos to share with you each weekthat my personal posts get slim! So today, I simply want to give you a Life Update:) I’ll start with the biggest news, Malcolm is an official U.S. permanent resident!!! We had to travel to Chicago last week...

CEDAR HURST LODGE} NORA AND MATT

When Nora and Matt first told me they were renting a cabin on a lake for a week and that their wedding was going to be natural and non-traditional, I was soooo giddy with excitement!! I ran around most of the day with bare feet, picked raspberries in the rain as I was waiting for...

just for fun} lucy and shawnee

Free People clothing magazines are my one and only source of inspiration whenever I want a just-for-fun photo shoot…. and my urge to shoot photos for myself always hits me suddenly, so I am thankful both Lucy and Shawnee were available that certain day! Even though we have sun until 10pm, we ran out of...

thrifty thursday (on film).

Besides working with couples in love, there is nothing that gives me greater joy than playing around with awesome outfits with a gorgeous model like Lucy!! She’s seriously amazing in front of the camera… I had one roll of 24 exposure film for this session, so I captured this week’s Thrifty Thursday on my film...

i’m on instagram (publicly).

I’ve been using Instagram since I bought my iPhone last year, but I had a private account because I took almost every iPhone image with Instagram and I didn’t want to be that public with my life…… By the time I even thought about “going public” with my account, I had over 300 images on...

Lake Superior Wedding + Ashley and Nate

I attend 15+ weddings each year, almost always as a photographer, so I have a unique view of the day, drastically different than guests, or of course, even the bride. All weddings are different, yet the same. In the end, two people, madly in love, vow to love and care for each other for the entirety of their life....

Engagement} Lydia and Dan

A year ago, a girl I grew up with, lost her sister. The day her sister passed, I saw her in Wal-Mart and cowardly turned in the other direction, hardly managing a no-tooth smile. That very moment haunted me for a month or two before I wrote an open letter to her on this blog....

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