romantic bridal session

You’ve seen their engagement photos – and now, since the wedding day on Saturday, the bridal photos I took of Lisa can come out of hiding and be shown to the world. Lisa kept her dress a big secret, as most brides do until their wedding day, and she looked gorgeous the day of. I [...]

:the newlywed shoot:

Sometimes it doesn’t work out to take engagement photos before the wedding and you end up doing them after – in that case I’ve deemed them a newlywed shoot and they are delightful! I’m not sure if it was the combination of Sarah+Matt’s experience from the wedding, the gorgeous blue wall we found, or in [...]

Stef+Nate

Stef loves to wear long dresses, Nate is usually in a band tshirt – if that doesn’t give you a taste of their fun personalities then hopefully these photos do. We headed over to Angelica to take some pseudo urban + wide open spaces engagement pics. Can you believe it’s almost June already? They’re getting [...]

happy halloween

I hope you all had a good halloween; this seems like the start of the holiday season and I can’t believe it’s November already. Matt and I went to the harvest party at our church and enjoyed fresh pressed cider, cotton candy, and homemade doughnuts- yum! We also went on a short hayride and my [...]

heather+derek

It’s been too long! The year just started while I’m not a student, working at a college really picks up when everyone comes back to start the semester. I think this will be a better week though and I’m planning on having a fun promotion to celebrate my new website!
On to what we’re here for…. [...]

Gaerte family photos

What do you give your parents for their 25th anniversary? Well, if you’re Emily Gaerte you give them family photos and a photo shoot with me! Seriously, how many daughters are that thoughtful? As much as I want to be, I don’t think I am [I love you mom + dad :]… but now you [...]

amber + eric

…had the kind of wedding I think a lot of people want to have. They had to choose between large elaborate event and a simple one, and they went the simple route. It’s not that they didn’t want to have a large wedding party with all family and friends, but time was such that [...]

*Kaylan & John’s Engagement*

You already saw the amazing picture from their engagement session in the “win a photo shoot” post- but now it’s time for the rest of them. So, let me introduce you to Kaylan & John. I decided to start with the shot above (I know it’s something a little different) but I like that it [...]

Matt & Krista ::: part 2

here we go with a few more selections from Matt & Krista’s wedding. We had time planned to take pictures of just the couple, and it showed because we came out with a lot of great photos. There were others from the rest of the wedding but I wanted to share some that stood out.
I [...]

/// a long weekend

Even though this is after the fact, I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I enjoyed the day off with Matt and also had fun taking pictures of the changing landscape, as you can see above. It’s so interesting to drive by and see all the windmills, almost like they’re giants, especially the [...]