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I met Matt and Carina on the University of Illinois Quad on New Years Eve.  Luckily they look absolutely adorable snuggled up in their coats because it was FREEZING outside! Matt and Carina have been together for quite some time and spent a lot of their relationship in school at the University of Illinois together. […]

My first day in 2016 allowed me to do my favorite thing.. photograph a couple in love on the best day of their lives.  As I photographed the New Years day wedding, I couldn’t help but reflect on all of the wonderful weddings I photographed in 2015.  Beginning on January 3rd and ending on November […]

At the end of each year, I like to go through my photos and pick out some of my favorites. This year was especially fun to see all of the different places and types of photos I took.  From including chickens, beaches, puppies, beer, graffiti, canoes, horses, airplanes and more… I’d say I had a […]

Here’s a look into this past year’s weddings and sessions…. and all of the awkward things I’ve been caught doing at them.  These pictures are crazy unflattering in some many ways but I’m going to forget how embarrassed I am of them and show you anyways! This year, my second shooters and I photographed 15 […]

The Holiday season came up too quickly and I didn’t get a chance to get out Christmas Cards.. I persuaded my sister to take these photographs and then even went as far as to have the wonderful Abigail Sievers (one of my brides this past year) create a card for me… yet didn’t get them […]

Tom and Mary were married in Punta Cana at the Castle at Sanctuary resort.  They enjoyed a private ceremony accompanied only by two witnesses from the island that were required to make it official.  When they returned from their romantic wedding on the beach, they celebrated their marriage with a wedding reception at the Hawthorne […]