Family & Friends

Summer has been great. While it has been quite warm and filled with some bizarre weather I think we’ve made some good memories this season. I’m a night owl and always wake up in the morning filled with sleepy regret of not going to bed sooner. There is nothing better than spending long summer nights hanging out with family and friends. This has been a good year with more great things to come.

Thanks to everyone that has given us words of encouragement. Sarah and I are really blessed to be around such a great group of people.

Here’s a few quick random snaps from the past couple of days.

Mary Beth :: Senior 2011

I really enjoyed this senior portrait session. Majority of these locations were Mary Beth’s requests as they had personal meaning to her. Our first stop was a park that she liked to spend time at with her sister.  There is also a beautiful old cottonwood tree she’s always admired. Lots of beauty and character in these photographs that we’ve fallen in love with. Such a great time. We ended up sharing a Green & Black chocolate bar in the middle of the session. How can you go wrong with chocolate?

Nathan & Tami :: Married :: Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographers

Hot weather be darned! Last weekend was a scorcher but that didn’t interfere with the photographs you are about to see. Nathan and Tami had us out to document their beautiful day. We kicked things off  at Calvary United Methodist up in Ames for the ceremony and then ended at Hickory Hilltop for the reception. In between we made a stop at the Welch Avenue Station as it was a common spot Nate and Tami met up. Thanks to you both for having us out and congratulations again! Look forward to hanging out some time!

Albums and Boxes :: Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographers

We had another beautiful wedding today. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Sanderson! There will be a blog post to follow later this week!

I realized that we’ve not made any official post to show what we offer for product. Sarah and I quickly ordered up an album, a guest book and a custom photo box to share with everyone.  I wanted this to be a simple post with just photographs of the product but I wanted to take a second to explain my thoughts and feelings. I have a passion for not only the product itself but the importance of getting an album. There are a lot of couples today looking to hire a photograher to show up for the ceremony and reception and then just simply provide a disc of digital negatives. There is nothing wrong in going this route. But now that you have the disc what are you going to do with it? I’ve talk to a few couples that the disc is either laying in a drawer somewhere or has been misplaced.

The newlywed life is often so hectic, why not let us do the work for you? Any time you hire us out for albums and design we’ll send the layouts to you for approval before it goes to print. The album company we use is far superior to what is available to the general public. Anything happens to your album, we’ll have it reprinted. Seriously. The guarantee on these are fantastic. We not only stand behind our work but also the companies we use for creating these beautiful masterpieces.

To touch, feel and see these up close, come see us at the upcoming Hy-Vee Bridal Show on September 12th! We’ll have several albums out for everyone to look through as well as a fun booth to walk through. Really looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Have a wonderful rest of the weekend!

Our Sample Album:

Sample Guest Book with pages perfect for writing in!

Custom Photo Box! Beautiful and uniquely designed for every wedding! This one holds up to 800 photographs.

Clare is not included as a product. She’s just helping us sell them.