Archive for May, 2009

Last weekend I got to shoot on the amazing Iowa State Campus again.. loving it! What made it even more amazing was the wonderful couple I got to take pictures of! Craig and Katherine are so much fun! They took me all around the Campus to the spots they had already scouted out.. we even went to the classroom where Craig laid his eyes on Katherine for the first time.. and we ended the session under the water-tower where Craig proposed.. he even got down on his knees one more time for the picture. This Engagement Session was really absolutely special and I know that the wedding will be just as special and amazing!! Craig and Katherine.. here is your sneak!!

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Jake

May 27, 2009

I got to shoot Jake again! Can you believe, he is already “3″!! And he is really such a little sweetheart.. we took him fishing out to Twin Lakes cause this is what he loves right now.

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What a little fisherman he is!

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Have fun checking out the new pictures!!! And Dawson’s cute Slideshow!!!

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The last two weeks have been a lot of fun for me.. I had so many wonderful sessions.. I think I am really blessed with all of my clients. Everyone of them is so much fun and totally up for the way I shoot or my sometimes little “out there” ideas. I am also preparing for my first wedding this year. I am so thrilled about it. Not just because the bride and groom are amazing and so much fun and such a beautiful couple, also and mostly because since the bride booked me last year, we have become friends. And that makes this day now even more special for me.
So the last weeks I am pretty much breathing WEDDING as I already told you! I got to shadow the awesome Troy Schroeder from Memories in Focus and the fabulous Rochelle Green and her husband Jeff from Green Door Photography on some of their weddings. And I am totally in love with it. Can’t wait to share the first pictures..

Dawson

May 21, 2009

Little Mr. Dawson is one of the most happiest toddlers I’ve ever met! He giggled.. looked at me.. even posed a little! Such a sweetheart! And look at his gorgeous sisters! I just couldn’t go home without a picture of them!

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I think the main reason why I want my clients to have fun.. the kids to run around and do what they normally do and almost forget about me, is cause I know how hard it is to look good in a picture when you have to pose and sit still and don’t have somebody try to take your mind of of it. I look horrible in pictures.. i really do! Whenever I went to a photographer.. I hated the pictures. I am a very bad poser and I do not have that perfect picture smile. I always look in pain or just flat weird! So end of that story for me is.. I am never in pictures. I rarely have pictures of Ally and me.. but millions of Jon and Ally. Sad but true! So lucky me that I have such a patient husband who doesn’t mind taking tons of pictures in a row until I finally end up with ONE picture I like! And look how good he did! I am so proud of him.. not much and he will through me out of business! But for now he is my assistant for the wedding I have coming up in June! I can’t tell you how excited i am! A full day of shooting, shooting, shooting! Since weeks is the FedEx guy swinging by my house almost every other day.. dropping of gear and back-up stuff I will need. It’s like Christmas all over..

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Love is in the Air

May 20, 2009

Check out my favourite pictures from Katie’s and AJ’s “it’s raining dogs on us, but we don’t care” Engagement Session a couple of weeks ago! I am also working on branding my wedding part of the business.. think i got it! Love the clean white with the gray script. What do you think???

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As many of you know.. my little Ally turned 2 at the end of last month! We were all so excited.. 2 years.. what a big girl we already have! So we thru a B-Day Party for her together with the family and treated her to a day at the zoo. And boy I tell you she was so excited.. MY PARTY.. was two of the most used word for a couple of days! Also she already started to look for the monkeys when we were still on the Highway to Des Moines! So cute!

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One of her favourites next to the fishes.. feeding the goats or whatever she can get is an absolute highlight!

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These pictures up here are my favourite.. they capture exactly her little (ha.. HUGE) personality these days. Misses had everything under control and was checking out her map routinely to see if we are still on the right path to the TIGER!! aarrrghhh! I really had to work hard to get the shot and not laugh myself to the ground!

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And cause there just have to be more pictures of this beautiful girl on my blog, here are some more of my favourites from my Model Session with Danielle!

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What an amazing session yesterday.. Adam and Shalee are so much fun! Totally up for everything and a beautiful couple! I know the wedding will be a blast for me to shoot! Thanks to my little photo-training shoot with some wonderful photographers from Fort Dodge and around, I knew a couple of wonderful spots downtown I could take em’ for their Engagement Session. I know Shalee, i said i need two days to show you some on the blog but I just couldn’t wait and i have to upload at least three.. more to come in a couple of days.. i promise!

And how much of a perfect day would it have been, if I wouldn’t had locked my keys later in my car in front of Office Max?! I tell you it was not fun.. oh well we had actually a couple of good laughs when my sister in law and boyfriend showed up with a hand full of tools, ready for everything possible to help me to break into my own car! Those Reuter’s, i tell you! lol
And of story was that we, after 2.5 hours of trying to get that stupid car open finally ended up calling a professional! I was just amazed that nobody called the cops on us or that the cop i was trying to wave over, did not stop! Guess he had something more important to do! So please, let me give you that advice.. make sure you got your keys before telling your assistant to press the lock in your car down! Right Mahaley?

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And here the wonderful Thompson Family! Check out there wonderful kids!

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