Ed. Note: Jess is a friend of mine and I was thrilled to help her choose Olivia to shoot her Minneapolis wedding!

Jeff and Jess…where do I begin? I’m sure someday I will get a couple that is just “nice,” a wedding that is “fine,” a day that is just “average.” But until then I think I shall wax poetically about …

I always hope that having lovely wedding photographs inspires my couples to integrate more shoots and more photography into their lives after the wedding. While I love photographing weddings, I always think it such a shame when couples forego photography for years and years (I am guilty of this myself!) just because the wedding is over. I have always been …

I recently spoke to a new acquaintance of mine who was married several years ago (before I was even shooting weddings!). She discussed how displeased she was with the photographs, and how looking at them made her sad. What a tragedy to have such disappointing photographic memories of such a happy day. After speaking to her, I thought about a …

Sara and Pat were married about two weeks ago in the Chicago suburbs. They were referred to me by the wonderful Adam and Emily, who had a wonderful celebration at A New Leaf and were one of my favourite and sweetest couples from 2008 (Part I, Part II). I thought that any friend of theirs would be enjoyable to shoot, …

Although the weather has been lovely lately here in Chicago, we’ve had many days of rain this spring, and overcast skies fell upon us for Terri + Brian’s engagement connection session. We decided to go ahead with the session, though, and I’m so glad we did, as the colours were popping and we were able to create several delightful photographs …