Hello and welcome to my photoblog. I am delighted to have you here! This blog serves as a way of sharing my most recent photo sessions with clients and their family and friends, and is also the first place to hear recent announcements about the studio as well as special blog-reader only discounts.
I am a primarily natural light portrait photographer based out of Madison, Wisconsin. My focus is on babies, children and families, although I also love to shoot a limited number of weddings per year. My portrait sessions take place entirely on location -- either at your home or at another location around Madison. I love to explore new places, so I'm very open to your suggestions. And of course, I have some favorite spots that I'm always ready to explore again as well.
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My approach toward photography is deceptively simple: catch real moments of your children really being themselves. Silly giggles, sweet kisses from mommy, tickles from a big sister, laughing while watching doggie run through the park... These are the moments that make up real life. These are the moments from childhood that pass by all too fast. And these moments, to me, are where the real beauty of childhood resides. The same philosophy governs my approach to wedding photography.
My style is largely photojournalistic and non-obtrusive, while at the same time I am always working to create beautiful and lasting memories of life as it unfolds. The most common words used to describe my photographs are the ones I have chosen as the tagline for my studio: Modern. Fun. Real. Life. People often comment that my photographs have a sense of warmth and emotion to them -- which I consider the highest compliment possible.
I had a wonderful time photographing little M just shy of her 2nd week birthday. She was the sleepiest little thing most of the session, and happily snoozed away just about everywhere we placed her.
Sweet portraits with her very loving parents.
Siblings.
She did wake up toward the end to show off her beautiful eyes.
And oh my,...
For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. ~ Rilke
On the summer solstice this year, I had the pleasure of photographing the marriage...
You often hear that rain on your wedding day is lucky. Well, if that’s true then Shawn and Matt are going to have a very lucky life together! They weathered not just torrential downpours, but also two false fire alarms that led to evacuations of the entire Memorial Union, two tornado warnings, and at least...
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. — John Lubbock
(photo taken along the shoreline of Lake Mendota. I love Madison in...
I had the best time shooting this session — the weather was gorgeous, little baby O was absolutely adorable and honored me with dozens of cute facial expressions, and his parents were so fun and happy to let me try out lots of different ideas during the shoot. If I had an idea that seemed...
This lovely little newborn was one of the sweetest and sleepiest babies I’ve ever met. She spent the first 20 minutes or so of our photo session snoozing, which gave me and her parents a chance to do some creative posing. The photograph above is one of my favorite newborn images to date — it’s...
