Peru

I apologize for not having posted in the past couple of weeks. Family and friends have kept me very busy and I've been working really hard on new brochures, designing a new website and new business cards. Hopefully everything will be done by the beginning of wedding season!

In the meantime, I've been looking through some of my fine art photos and weeding out my favorites. I am hoping to display some of these in some local hair salons, coffee shops, etc. Here are a few of my favs! These are all from Peru, where I went with my friend Tammy to hike the Inca Trail. Anyone that says that the Inca Trail is just a hike is either in incredible shape or a big fat liar! It was tough! But we made it to Machu Picchu and was it ever worth it. It was gorgeous. Tammy and I were definitely ready to come home after all our hard work!

Nicole and Atman - February 16, 2008

Nicole and Atman had a great wedding. They were actually married in December in Las Vegas, and then they had a big ceremony/party in India, where Atman is from, and then they had a ceremony in the states for all their friends and family here. Many of Atman's friends and family from India flew in for the wedding and fun was had by all...

Susan Stripling Workshop

I have just returned from an amazing workshop where I learned sooooo much. Susan Stripling is a very well known wedding photographer,based out of Tallahassee. She travels worldwide for her weddings and has a wonderful eye for seeing light and how to work with it. The workshop was held in Norfolk Virginia. 13 photographers, including moi, gathered at the home of Eleise Theuer and learned so much. Susan truly held nothing back and gave us tips on, not only photography, but business practices, workflow, connecting with clients, etc. A good time was had by all. In the afternoon of both days, we went outside and shot models in bright bright sunlight (something all photographers dread). I really learned to see light in a whole new way and brought home plenty of images! Here are some samples. I can't wait for my 2008 weddings!

Our schedule so far for the year

Below are the current bookings and events for 2008:

February 16: Nicole Giglio wedding, Chicago
February 18 - 20: Susan Stripling Photography Workshop, Norfolk, VA
March 4 - 7: Trip to Denver
May 2: Nicole Kuebler Wedding, Chicago
May 17: Rob McDaniel Wedding, Chicago
May 24: Beth Rogers Wedding, Chicago
May 31: Tom Claasen Wedding, Chicago
June 1: Harsha Portraits
June 5: Ilana POrtrait
June 6: Gina Lee Wedding
June 10: Zachary portraits
June 13: Ada portrait
June 14: Nicole Chmura Wedding, Chicago
June 15: Leslie portrait
June 20: Amanda Spoerl Wedding, Chicago
June 22: Sharon portrait
June 22: Sara portrai
July 5: 2nd shooting with Kelley Demas, Chicago
July 22: Cynthia portrait
August 2: Matt Clark Wedding, Chicago
August 15: Stacy Buete Wedding, Chicago
August 16: Laurie portrait
August 24: Cristina Bothe wedding
August 29: Amy Walker Wedding, Chicago
September 5: Tessa Perry wedding
September 12: Target leave date for Qatar!

Check us out on Brides.com

I are pleased to announce that one of my favorite weddings has been featured on Brides.com "Real Weddings". Check it out at:

http://www.brides.com/weddingstyle/realweddings/168600

Justin and Kerry were a great couple to work with. They've been together for 11 years and met in high school! Wonderful to photograph!

The feature also has photos taken by my second shooter for the day, Kelley Demas.

Back to work

I am back to work and just photographed twins today! Kara and Mike are former wedding clients and were surprised to find that they were carrying twins last year. Lola and Ava are now three months and so identical that mom and dad color code them to tell them apart.....one is pink and one is green...

Our vacation

Well we took our annual ski vacation and Telluride was beautiful....unfortunately we only got to see about three blocks of the town before our little one got sick and had to be taken down to a lower altitude. Who knew that a baby could get altitude sickness? So we ended up in Boulder Colorado instead of Telluride--which was okay because it's our alma mater!

Here is the one photo we have of Telluride!



So Max is okay, but his hospitalization wasn't very fun. But he was feeling better after a few days--here he is walking in the hospital.