This past week I was invited by Monika Caban, another local photographer, to take part in a series of trash the dress photo shoots on the beach here in Southwest Michigan. The shoots featured beautiful locations in Southwest Michigan along with several couples looking for amazing pictures. The great thing about trash the dress portraits […]
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Engagement photos with dogs are always fun, I met up with Chris and Kelly in Downtown Chicago to do some engagement pictures with their dogs but as soon as we met up it began to rain. We took shelter beneath this tree to wait out the rain but it was to no avail, we ended […]
Welcome to the world baby Lincoln!! I took these photos weeks ago when my wife and I went to visit our good friends up in Minnesota. They’d just had a baby and on a whim we jumped in the car and drove the nine hours up to see them. It was totally worth it of […]
One of the best locations in all of Chicago for shooting engagement photos is Chicago’s Millennium Park. If you’re recently engaged and looking for a place to do your engagement pictures you could do a lot worse than starting off or ending up in a location like Millennium Park. Chicago offers engaged couples a million […]
Eric and Jessica had an incredibly beautiful wedding reception at the Blue Dress Barn this July. The weather was perfect and the Blue Dress Barn was as charming and beautiful as always. When we first arrived at the barn we had a few minutes to do portraits with the bride and groom before the wedding […]
Here are a few of my favorite lighthouse engagement photos from the engagement shoot I did in Saint Joseph Michigan. You may recall I posted a couple of pictures from Lee and Katrina’s first engagement shoot a couple of weeks ago, our quest for the perfect sunset shots by the lighthouse had been cut short […]
A few weeks ago I shot a wedding in Lawrence Michigan at the Lawrence United Methodist Church. The weather was perfect and church was beautiful, we only had one little mishap before the ceremony… the brides veil was actually blown off her head and up over the Church, it almost ended up in a tree […]
Here are just a few of my favorite wedding pictures from Dan & Sarah’s wedding reception at the Blue Dress Barn in Millburg Michigan. If you’ve never been to a wedding or wedding reception at the Blue Dress Barn you’re really missing out, the Barn is an incredibly beautiful place for a wedding and reception […]
Brandon & Kira’s wedding photos on the beach in Saint Joseph Michigan were AWESOME!! Their wedding and reception were held at the Boulevard Inn at the top of the bluff in downtown Saint Joseph which is so close to the beach they were able to walk down to Lake Michigan after the reception for some […]
Last week I shot some engagement photos on the beach in Saint Joseph Michigan just after a storm blew through. We had scheduled the engagement shoot a couple of months in advance so in spite of the sketchy weather we decided we’d see what we could come up with! I’ve got lots more photos to […]
Several weeks ago I was blessed with the opportunity to shoot engagement photos at the Chicago Botanical Gardens in Glencoe IL which is just north of the city. If you live north of the City of Chicago and are looking for a place to do engagement photos or even pictures on your wedding day, the […]
A couple of weeks ago I had a chance to shoot some beautiful engagement photos by the beach in Southwest Michigan. The engagement session took place in Saint Joseph and only lasted a couple of hours but we had a great time and in spite of some threatening skies we didn’t get rained, YAY! One […]
What do you get when you cross a happily engaged couple with a crazy photographer and a lumber yard… why beautiful engagement photos of course!! Actually, funny story, we were in Sawyer Michigan taking these photos in no joke… a lumber yard when the owner of the lumber yard pulled up in his pickup truck. […]
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to be the wedding photographer for a wedding at the Frederick Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids Michigan. It was actually my first time ever visiting Frederick Meijer Gardens and I was blown away by what a gorgeous location it was for not only the wedding ceremony but […]
Florence & Gerry were married at The Assumption Church in downtown Chicago, it was an incredibly beautiful ceremony and as a photographer I was excited to see how much light there was to work with in the church! After the ceremony the bride and groom (Don’t forget, you can turn the volume down before you […]
If you are planning a wedding in Chicago you’re probably trying to figure out which locations would be perfect for your wedding portraits and the likely suspects are of course the places with a view of the skyline like Buckingham fountain, Millennium Park, and the Museum Campus. While these are all fabulous landmark locations for […]
So a couple of weeks ago this amazingly thoughtful guy named Stu contacted me about the possibility of taking engagement pictures of the moment he actually proposed to his girlfriend Anna. He wanted to do the proposal at sunset and he also wanted it to be a complete surprise, so we needed to make sure […]
I love taking pictures of newborn babies but this picture is extra special because this baby boy is my son! Elijah was born last night at Lakeland Hospital here in Saint Joseph Michigan. I took this picture just after a feeding at 3am, more baby pictures to follow!
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to photograph a Chicago wedding at the Intercontinental Hotel by O’hare Airport just outside of downtown Chicago. The event itself was incredible but what blew me away was the interior of this hotel. It was like shooting a wedding inside of a modern museum, every room, every […]
Last fall I was contacted about the possibility of doing boat portraits out on Lake Michigan. The person who contacted me wanted to give her friend an action packed portrait session as a gift for Christmas so we worked out the details and came up with a gift certificate she could give him to unwrap. […]
Last Friday I met up with Whitney & Ben to do engagement photos on the beach here in Southwest Michigan. We really lucked out with the weather for this engagement shoot because as it turns out it was one of the only beautiful days of the week! Whitney and Ben love the outdoors and are […]
This week I met up with Kara and Brian to shoot Engagement Photos in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Anyone who is familiar with downtown Chicago knows what an amazing place Millennium Park can be for engagement pictures, there are gorgeous gardens, beautiful sculptures, concerts, sky scrapers, Michigan Avenue, and people… did I mention people? Yes… while […]
Yesterday I shared some of the engagement photos I did of Eric and Jessica with their horses in the country side and today I’m sharing a few of my favorites of just the two of them on the farm. We had a beautiful afternoon to work with and the location was stunning with beautiful views […]
When I met Jessica several months ago she had one very important question for me, Can you shoot some of our engagement pictures with our horses? Of course I can, was my immediate response! Now admittedly, I’ve never shot engagement photos with horses before but I love a good challenge and incorporating meaningful things into […]
Last week I had the opportunity to take portraits of this wonderful family on the beach at sunset! We met up at Weko Beach in Bridgman Michigan and took a variety of pictures as the sun set. This is one of my favorite family portraits from the entire shoot! After shooting some family pictures in […]
This past weekend I shot a beautiful wedding in downtown Chicago at St Peters Church, the reception was at Salvatores restaurant, and we did portraits at North Avenue Beach. It was a beautiful day and I think the wedding photos turned out great! We started the day shooting the brides preparations at the Marriott downtown, […]
I must start this post by giving a friend and fellow photographer credit for coming up with this fantastic idea, Leda of LVL Photography approached me a few months ago to see if I would be interested in taking part in a Curtain Call shoot she was planning with Stella Event Design. Basically a Curtain […]
Engagement pictures taken at sunrise by the Lincoln Memorial, Reflection Pool, Tidal Basin, and Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC.
Traditionally on the day of a wedding the families of the bride and groom gather at the front of the church for group pictures. There are long lists of portraits, huge groups of extended family members, and lines of people just waiting around for their turn to be photographed with the bride and groom! Thankfully […]
This incredible beach wedding wasn’t technically on the beach, it was on top of Mt Baldy which is a huge dune located along the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Regardless of whether or not you would consider this a beach wedding the bride, groom and guests had a stunning view of Lake Michigan. To get to […]