If you are planning your wedding, especially if you are in Madison, I recommend checking out WisconsinWed.Blogspot.Com where you will see some practical musings about wedding planning as Rebecca goes through the stages of planning. She also had a wonderful write up of her experience with me when I took their engagement photos at the Farmers Market.
Last fall, I had a great time taking photos of Rebecca and Andrew at the Dane County Farmer’s Market in Madison as part of my Portraits with a Heart fundraising sessions. Rebecca & Andrew wanted something more casual and a little different, and so playing around at the farmers market was perfect (plus, I ended up with a pumpkin, some goat cheese, and some honey!).
I can’t wait for Amy & Jeff’s wedding later this year at the Loring Pasta Bar and Varsity Theater! Here is a quick preview of the fun engagement photos we took at Azia Restaurant.
CNN Money recently did a piece on Tracey and her journey from West Point to her current work, and featured a few of my images from their wedding during the video. It got me thinking about their wedding photos, and what a fantastic time I had being a small part of Tracey and Miguel’s wedding day.
I had been so nervous going into this wedding at the Milwaukee Art Museum because Tracey and Miguel did not want to see each other before the ceremony, and their ceremony would be at sunset. Even though all the photos would be at night, they still wanted some of the feel of their location on lake Michigan, which meant that we had about 15 minutes of photos until there was total darkness. So, I grabbed their best man, Tubbs, threw a flash in his hand and told him where to point it while we rushed to the top of the art center for the last touch of the moon.
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Quick preview from Kate & Patrick’s wedding ceremony at the Fort Snelling Chapel. I can’t wait to show off the photos from their reception at Be’witched Deli in Downtown Minneapolis!
Go over to CNN Money and Fortune Magazine right now and watch this video about Tracey Lloyd. I was lucky enough to photograph her wedding to Miguel in 2008, and I feel very blessed to know them. CNN Money has interviewed Tracey about her journey from West Point to civilian life and taking her leadership knowledge into the Walmart corporate world. Also, around minute 3, you will see some of the images I captured of their lovely and heartfelt wedding at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
When I talk with bride’s and groom’s about their wedding details, one concern that comes up frequently is lighting – will it be too dark, will you see the ambiance, will it seem natural, can you hide the flaws?
A professional wedding photographer has already thought about those things, and has a game plan. A good professional photographer is also totally willing to abandon that game plan when the time is right. For most of this wedding at the stunning Varsity Theater in Dinkytown Minneapolis, I had two lights on stands around the room to add some direction to the dark ambient light. For this photo, though, I just turned all the lights off to capture Jennifer and Aaron being adorably in love.
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Later this year, downtown Minneapolis will see the opening of Haute Dish restaurant. I was lucky enough to take some photos of some of the partners in their semi-finished space – based on what is already there, I cannot wait to see it in action.
I love shooting weddings in my hometown of Madison, Wisconsin. I love it so much that I don’t charge for travel there, and I end up shooting there a lot. The downtown has amazing public spaces for taking wedding photos – the captiol, the memorial union, state street, and the university buildings all make for great spots.
One challenge to having so many landmark buildings, however, is that it can be easy to fall into a rut of where to take photos. I don’t ever want my clients to look over my work and see the same location but a different wedding party, so at every location I do different poses, different angles, different lighting, different parts of the space to give truly unique images.
That brings me to Nicole and Rob’s gorgeous wedding at Tripp Commons of the Memorial Union in Madison. We took some photos with the water, and around the union, but my favorite photo was this one at the back of the old armory building between two brick buttresses. I have fun with the lighting, and they had fun with the kissing 
Choosing a location for wedding photos is something I always discuss with my clients in the weeks before their wedding because it is such a large factor in the feel of your wedding photos. Sometimes, the reception or ceremony spaces are stunning, or a nearby landmark is a must have, but sometimes “great” locations don’t have to mean “pretty” locations.
For Holly & Ben’s wedding in rural Minnesota, we went to a few parks and took some lovely photos with lakes and flowers. Then on the way back to the church, Holly mentioned that there were some railroad tracks she liked and we stopped to take this photo. It is one of my favorites because the overcast sky made it possibly to capture the railroad tracks perfectly, and the windy day made Holly’s gorgeous silk dress blow around her like a cloud.
I am so very excited about these photos! Growing up, my mom always bought a freezer full of fresh cranberries in the fall to eat all year round. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized how unique that was, but now it is as much a part of my childhood as fresh baked bread or the occasional microwaved dinner – fresh cranberries are like home. And it wasn’t until I moved back to the Midwest that I realized that Wisconsin makes the majority of all cranberries in the US. Do you hear that Massachussets? Of course, the Cranberry marshes of Wisconsin are not as large as the Cranberry bogs of the East Coast, but they are certainly as photogenic!
Last fall, my friend Sarah McGee (a fellow wedding photographer) and I traveled to Central Wisconsin and the Wetherby Cranberry Company to take some photos in the very chilly waters at harvest time. Because harvest happens in a relatively short period of time, we couldn’t know our timing until a week before, but we managed to get an amazing (if slightly ominous) harvest day. Despite the very cold day, and the even colder water, Manja did an amazing job as we floated her in a dress surrounded by cranberries.
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