This is exciting! You’re getting married! But before you can catch your breath, the reality of planning a wedding starts to seep in. Based on my experience of personally photographing over 50 weddings, I can give you a few thoughts. So, congratulations, and now let’s get to...

#1 Prepare Bobbie Blanque I don’t know Bobbie, the woman in the above photo, very well. But I’m pretty sure that she doesn’t normally do her makeup and hair before she works out and sweats. No, Bobbie got ready for her photo shoot! I don’t know how long it might take you...

Art is a journey that you never reach the end of, a mountain you never reach the top of, because as soon as you feel like you have nothing more to learn, you become stale and, at least for me, that would make it uninteresting. For artistic photography there are basically three elements. 1) The...

1) Who’s Taking The Photo?   We’ll talk about you in a moment, but the first detail is who is taking the photo? How do you find an outstanding photographer to take an outstanding portrait of you? It’s not as hard as you might think. In other blog posts I talk about the...

I talk with a lot of brides. Sometimes I talk with friends of brides who have stories to tell me about other photographers. As you might guess, the stories are pretty much all disaster stories. Here's what might surprise you about them. With only one exception, they all start out like the title...

  Imagine this, “I don’t have any wedding photos.” she told me. “She took pictures all day and at the end of the day she opened her camera and saw that she didn’t have a memory card in the camera.” This is a real story told to me by the bride some three...

The first thing you need to do is set a date, right? And to do that you need to secure your venue so that’s priority number one on your todo list. What’s next? There’s so many things, right? But let’s shift our attention to what’s most important. I understand I have...

Sometimes we seem to be as changeable as the weather. Clouds makes up gloomy. Sunshine makes us happy. So for our wedding, we want bright sunshine without a cloud in the sky, right? Wrong! As a photographer here are my favorite skies in order 1) Partly cloudy with blue sky and maybe the sun...

Getting down and doing what it takes to get that shot! As wedding photographers we have numerous goals on your day. It starts with documenting the extraordinary story of your day with every bit of technical and artistic skill we posses. The title of this blog, “Obersvations of a Flying...

One of the many reasons I love shooting weddings is that there are three people, the bride, the groom and me, that are excited to make art. Put that together with the beauty of a bride on their day and a great setting, and magic can happen!   Brittany and Ethan Allen at Barn on the Ridge...

We'll be adding some of these to our permanent portfolio.          

I present to you, Mr. and Mrs. Diton This was a fun wedding to shoot. The landmark church, Holy Family Parish in Fort Madison, Iowa was really an honor and a thrill to photograph in. The families and the bride and groom were all a delight. This is not our first Ft Madison wedding and it won't be...

The Featured Show Today in Fort Madison at the spectacular Holy Family Church I get to photograph the wedding of Natalie Cole and Josh Diton. This is like a fairy tale come true. Or it's a 21st Century love story but whatever it is, it's very romantic. Natalie is from Alberta, Canada. Josh is...

Take a look at this fantastic aluminum print that Erica's parents had made for their home. You'll have to take my word for it but what you see on your screen doesn't come close to what it looks like in person. If you have not seen one of our aluminum prints you owe it to yourself to make...

Easy! Just make a Facebook post like this one made by Kim Minh Ly. "Over the last several months, Erica and I have had the opportunity to learn a lot more about photography and posing than we ever knew. And we still have a great deal to learn... During that time, we have had the opportunity to...