Whether you are looking for a wedding photographer or just looking to get portraits taken of you and your family, you may begin to wonder why professional photography costs so much. I have heard people talk about the expense of photography time and time again, but they rarely realize why these professionals charge what they …
The Journal
Two of the Most Giving, Open-Hearted People I Know: Jed & Vicki Taufer
Today I want to talk about a couple of people that I find truly inspirational and that I look up to so much! They are the kind of people I aspire to be on a regular basis. Vicki and Jed Taufer, if you don’t know them, own the V Gallery in Morton, IL, which is …
Escalate 2010 | Julia Woods’ Talk | Washington, IL
The last speaker at Escalate Live was Julia Woods (who actually just won wedding image of the year from PPA Photo Asia). Julia and Jeffrey Woods own Portrait Life Studio in Washington IL and have won multiple awards for their work. Julia talked about the business side of photography, which is the side of my …
Escalate 2010 | Tamara Lackey’s Talk | Washington, IL
Today I’m going to cover some of things I learned from Tamara Lackey at Escalate Live. I have followed Tamara’s blog for at least a year now. Tamara is an award winning children’s photographer based in North Carolina. Tamara captures these beautiful spontaneous moments and expressions and has a unique shooting style, which is similar …
Escalate 2010 | Lori Nordstrom’s Talk | Washington, IL
I was really interested to hear what Lori Nordstrom was going to talk about. Lori is from Iowa and specializes in baby photography. And I’ll be honest – I haven’t had a whole lot of opportunities to work with babies so I knew it was an area that I could learn a lot about. And …
Escalate 2010 | Julianne Kost’s Talk | Washington, IL
I thought I might share a little about the next speaker at the Escalate Live event on the blog today. Her name is Julianne Kost and she is an awesome individual! Julianne makes really beautiful and interesting photographic composites. She works for Adobe, and is one of the creators for the adobe software (so she’s …
Labor Day Weekend Wedding
We had a busy weekend over Labor Day weekend. I had both an engagement shoot and a wedding scheduled for the weekend. With all the new information I have been learning from Jasmine Star and the creativeLIVE team, I was super excited to start using some of it for the wedding on Sunday. So what …
Wedding Photo Competition
Well I was looking through my twitter message board the other day and I noticed that Digital Photo Buzz is having another photo competition. (Click here to view the contest page.) This time it’s focusing on wedding photography and I’m so happy with the pictures I took at Meagan and Joe’s wedding that I thought …
The Power of the Macro
Back in May I did some senior photos for a handsome young man over in St. Louis. I was blessed to meet his mother who happens to makes some absolutely amazing jewelry. I kid you not – her creations look like something you would buy at a high end store. They are gorgeous! But she …
New Website
Well it’s official. The new site is live on the web. I’m still making tweaks and there will be a couple of changes over the next few months. So feel free to check it out and give me your feedback. I’d love to hear what you think of it – good and bad. 🙂But what …