brendan & angela, part 1

I am not quite done processing these yet but I'm so excited for Brendan & Angela to see them that I just had to blog part one (aka - pre-ceremony). These were mostly taken at the University Club in Madison, WI, which is where the ceremony & reception took place.

Angela's gorgeous ring - nice work, B!



The University Club -



Isn't she beautiful?



The boys -







Pretty much the only time I saw Angela sit down all day -









Bouquet confusion!





The last few minutes before the ceremony -



Keep an eye out for part 2!

brendan & angela

I had the fabulous good fortune to be able to shoot the wedding of one of my oldest friends last weekend in Madison, WI. I am still in the post-processing stage but couldn't resist posting a quick tease...



Congratulations and best wishes to both of you!!

miluse

A few months ago I did a maternity shoot with my friend Jessica in Colorado...she delivered Miluse (pronounced Mee-lushe, it's Czech) about two weeks later and just a few weeks ago I was able to do a shoot with wee Miluse at our house. She is such a happy baby and soooo wiggly!

product shoot

On Tuesday I got an email from my friend Brooke, the owner of Velvet Strawberries, which is a wonderful line of body scrubs. She had an opportunity to have an article about her products in Fit Yoga magazine but had no pictures of anything - what's a girl to do? She overnighted a box of all her products to me and I spent last night playing with product photography. It was soooo fun! And as a super special bonus I get to keep all the freaking awesome producuts. Check out her website - www.velvetstrawberries.com - the scrubs are amazing and a portion of the proceeds of each one gets donated to charity.

ingrid's maternity shoot

This weekend I did a super fun maternity shoot with my friend Ingrid. The first real workout of my new studio area! We had a blast and got some great shots; she's due any day now so we just squeaked it in in time. For her first son I think we did the shoot about two weeks before she delivered, I think we cut it even closer this time. Here are a few of my favorites:



I snapped this one after she realized that she was trying to suck in her stomach to absolutely no effect -



I love love love these last two -





Best wishes for Ingrid and M2!

belly shots

Today I was made aware of the fact that I hadn't taken a single picture of my belly yet. Shameful! I took the opportunity to play with my new studio lights in our basement and had great fun setting everything up. Nate put up a nice black backdrop for me and I puttered away for about an hour, posing my belly.

Nate's favorite -



a totally different feel - this one was processed with the Totally Rad Old Skool action, I like the effect quite a bit -





I'm very excited to do this weekly and watch my belly grow over the next six months. It'll be fun to come up with a project that'll incorporate the whole series.

big news!

I'm pregnant! Pretty much the biggest news out there, eh? Whooooooooooooo.

Nate and I are both just tickled pink about the whole thing. I've started a baby blog, which is probably why I've been neglecting my responsibilities to this blog a bit. Shame on me. Please head on over there for more details on how things are progressing if you are so inclined!

Anyway, I will do my best to get back in the habit of blogging here at least weekly if not more often. We are going to Chicago on Saturday for five days so I'll definitely have some fun stuff from there.

Also, I got some studio lights! I have a corporate photobooth (almost, sort of) type gig in July and went out and got myself some AlienBees and a battery so I now have totally mobile portable lights. I'll probably set up a little portrait area in our basement to practice and do progress belly shots of myself.

Here's the announcement we sent out after our first doctor's appointment:



and an ultrasound shot of the little blob at 8 weeks -