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May 16 2010

Grant & Allison :: Married [Preview]

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“I hope they don’t want us to pose for any serious pictures because I simply can’t stop smiling.” These were the words I overheard from Grant while Sarah was composing a shot. This was one of the most affectionate and energetic couples we’ve ever photographed. Grant was literally doing handstands after the ceremony.

Sarah and I normally do not like posting “sneak previews” as we like to have, you, the viewer see these images in their entirety. I really enjoy preparing the whole storytelling aspect of the wedding day. But we are just too excited and wanted to post a couple of photographs while everything is still fresh in our minds. We’ll have an entire post prepared by the middle of the week that’ll give the rest of the beautiful details.

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! Have a great start to the week!

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May 12 2010

The Manning Family :: Portraits

Posted in .families, .me

During mother’s day we made a trip out to Winterset to capture something close to my heart. We were asked to come out and do some portraits of my family. Specifically, my mother’s side. During and after the photographs I was reminded how fast time slips by. Family is really important to us and these past few years have been a little rough. We’ve lost some loved ones. My grandfather was the most recent to pass. Earlier was my uncle Tom. Both are terribly missed.

I often revisit memories of my childhood and walking in the front door of my grandparent’s house when they lived in Adel. Grandpa would have his green coffee cup in hand and tell you stories of his past about his life as a painter, as a musician, and as a father. I really loved those stories. They usually got me laughing as he’d sprinkle in a few colorful words and get my grandmother worked up. It was all in good fun and always ended with laughter. I can still see his smile.

Then there was my uncle Tom. Any time you were with him he was going to give you the latest run down of what was going on in the NFL. A Dallas cowboy fan at heart. And he loved people. When family was around he’d light up and sometimes join my grandfather with his snare drum while the guitar was playing. The Lord felt his time here was done and he left us early in his life.

My Grandfather and Uncle are missing in these photographs, but they are always on our hearts and minds. Thanks to all for showing up and I hope you enjoy!

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Angel (mom)May 12, 2010 - 7:49 pm

Chris and Sarah, thank you so much for doing our pictures! They turned out wonderful and thank you so much for the write up, Chris. We do miss dad and Tom so much, but you are right, they will always be a part of our hearts. Sarah – you did a fantastic job!

PegMay 12, 2010 - 9:33 pm

Great job Sarah and Chris! You two do awesome work! I was checking out your other pics on this site, pretty cool!
We do appreciate you guys coming down on Mother’s day to take our family pics, very nice note Chris, Sarah, you work great with people! Thank you so much!

PollyMay 13, 2010 - 12:23 pm

Thank you Sarah and Chris for the great job you did on the pictures. We sure appreciate you both taking time out and going to Winterset to do our pictures. They turned out really nice. I really liked the write up you did as well, Chris. That was very special. Some really good memories of our Dad(Grandpa) and brother(Uncle) Tom.

HeatherMay 14, 2010 - 7:22 am

First, the write up brought tears to my eyes. Wow.

And best pictures ever I think! Absolutely gorgeous! I’ve got to link this to my blog (if it’s back online today – what am mess).

Gorgeous gorgeous work!

AmandaMay 14, 2010 - 4:36 pm

Chris and Sarah- What BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL pictures!! You guys did an AMAZING job! I was in awe when I saw them! That was really nice of you guys to go to Winterset and take the time to take pictures of the family! I am VERY impressed with both of your work! Chris–my mom told me to look at the pictures at work, and when I went to the website and started reading, your words brought tears to my eyes!! I was like, I’ve gotta wipe my eyes before someone sees me crying here at work!! You brought so many memories back to me–and I loved the littlest details you put in there too, literally took me back in time! I was so impressed w/ all of your work, I showed all my co-workers (they loved them too)! Thank you again for taking the pictures and I love you both Very Much! XO

AmandaMay 14, 2010 - 4:45 pm

ok, i thought my first comment didn’t post, so I had to write-up a new one…sorry about that, now there are two comments!! I stink at this sort of stuff…even my mom is better at it than me!!! geez!!

MichelleMay 15, 2010 - 8:56 pm

These pictures are beautiful! And the write up you added also brought tears to my eyes thinking back to the many times Grandpa was playing the guitar and singing in the bedroom upstairs at the house in Van Meter. I loved listening to him sing and of course Uncle Tom talking about those Cowboys! I sure miss them..Grandma looks beautiful! I am so thankful to be a part of the Manning family, Grandma and Grandpa raised some fine kids, such a loving and caring family. Thank you for taking the pictures, you did a fabulous job!

KimJuly 16, 2010 - 8:04 pm

I new that the both of you did great work this proves that you are verry profesional and they all look great

May 10 2010

Kathleen and Ryan :: Maternity Session

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For those that are blogstalkers, Kathleen and Ryan were one of our first blog entries and we photographed their engagement session in May last year. Absolutely wonderful! Later last year in August we photographed their beautiful wedding. We are now extremely excited to bring show them these images that were captured for their maternity session. It was perfect weather! I’ll stop the chatter and I hope you all enjoy!

Thank you both for allowing us to photograph all these special moments in your life. We can’t wait to do this again ::wink::

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Apr 29 2010

Katie & March :: Engaged

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So we met this couple at our first ever bridal show back in September of 2009. They came up to us and said, “This doesn’t usually happen and we were not planning on booking anything for a wedding photographer but we really think you are the one.” Needless to say they won our hearts 😉 I’m going to be honest, this was some of the most fun we’ve had during an engagement session. Hilarious and full of great personality. March said during the beginning of the shoot, “So I kind of, maybe made a superman shirt specifically for this shoot. Is that ok?” Are you kidding? Absolutely! Both of them such a riot. Here are our favorites.

By the way…this was shot just this evening. I didn’t get on to edit these until 10:30p this evening. So in 2 hours of time, they’ve been culled, post processed, resized and assembled for web. I hope I can keep this pace.

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Grant & Allison :: Married [Preview]

The Manning Family :: Portraits

Kathleen and Ryan :: Maternity Session

Katie & March :: Engaged