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Grace | Senior 2012

2011-11-16T09:03:00.001-08:00

Talk about a girl with heart, determination and strength you will find it in this girl. I am so thankful I had the opportunity to take this ladies senior pictures. P.S. We may or may not have gotten kicked out of the laundry mat, but it was a blast.

Mound Fire and Rescue

2011-11-16T08:43:00.001-08:00

Mound Fire and Rescue: Mound Fire and Rescue has almost 50 volunteer fire fighters. Some of which were not able to make it to the photo session. The concept for this photo shoot was to take ordinary fire fighter images and make them a bit more intriguing and creative while keeping the integrity and life of a fire fighter real.

Halloween 2011 | Guild Girls

2011-10-26T09:55:00.000-07:00

Just about everyone knows...Halloween is my favorite holiday. And what better way to celebrate than dressing in and being with the real thing!!! Some Fire and Rescue Fire Fighters were really wonderful and helped us in setting up this photo shoot and letting us wear their gear. Not to name drop but there were a couple Mike's and a couple Jeff's and a "Jason" dropped by. There

Jess 'n' Steve

2011-09-29T16:35:00.000-07:00

Jessica Miller and Steven Lochen

Sarah and Joshua Linn Wedding

2011-09-10T07:21:00.000-07:00

A great high school friend now a wonderful and beautiful woman! Sarah and Josh are two of the goofiest people I have photographed at a wedding. These pictures are not even a sliver of the amount of fun they are...ok maybe the cake picture I posted is. There are so many fun pictures I didn't post but I just wanted everyone to see how

Lucy and Adam Henglefelt Wedding

2011-08-27T07:05:00.000-07:00

Henglefelt Wedding | August 27, 2011 At the Calico Skies Vineyard and Winery in Inwood Iowa Lucy designed her entire wedding and made almost all of the decorations by hand. There were SO many detail shots that I did not put up but it was all so beautifully designed. If you need a designer for your wedding she is the one to get. She not only is a great designer

Noah Anderson

2011-08-13T06:54:00.000-07:00

Noah Anderson- Noone can define unpredictable like a newborn baby can. This little 6 day old guy, Noah Anderson, was the epitome of unpredictableness on Friday during our photo shoot. He was a little sleeper when he got in the studio but as soon as we moved him he didn't stop for about an hour and a half. We fed him many many times and normally he falls

Wild Colonial Bhoys - Promotional

2010-10-01T20:15:00.000-07:00

I am so Overdue on this. Back in October I photographed this Irish Pub band called the "Wild Colonial Bhoys" ( http://wildcolonialbhoys.com/ ) I had not known any of them, maybe seen one in passing and when they came to the studio they had no idea what to expect. Some of them seemed sketchy to be paying so much for a shoot and others confident I would figure it out. Normally, before a band

Jami and Chris Nordman Wedding, 09.11.2010

2010-09-12T20:12:00.000-07:00

There is no way I can explain this wedding. Jami and Chris are such a happy couple and the most easy going people I know. The wedding was completely stress free and the couple just went with the flow of things as they came. I am so blessed to have been trusted so completely much to document this important day of theirs. Not once did they ever

Lights Out Dancing: Concept Photo

2010-09-05T19:02:00.000-07:00

One can only imagine the actual feeling of getting a flat tire...let alone in the middle of the night right after you bought a new vehicle and picked up one of the newest member of your band...These guys definitely can relate!!! The night they picked up Jordan Wark from the airport, just shortly after buying heir new van got a flat tire in the middle of the night on the highway. Then we

Amanda Hancock and Josh Beerman Wedding 8.21.2010

2010-08-24T21:02:00.000-07:00

OMAHA NE Oh Lordy, where do I begin...Lets just start by saying that the Lord is amazing with blessing me with wonderful friends and this trip was such a reinforcement of that. I am so blessed to not only have been Amanda;s friend but I was her photographer as well.Sad thing was that Me and the picture taking was probably one ...of the only things

Lights Out Dancing: Press Photo

2010-07-03T14:53:00.000-07:00

Changes are happening all over the place. One of the biggest changes are to the upbeat pop/rock band everyone has known as "Lights Out Dancing" with the same 5 guys: Ryan, Kyle, Mike, Danny and Scott. The same guys that rock to their tunes on stage and create some awesome n'sync moves and performance everyone loves. However, now you will see that after two years two of the members have gone on

All The Right Movesfli-The Monster I've Become

2010-05-13T21:24:00.000-07:00

Super fun local band, I love these guys they always are so fun to photograph and collaborate ideas with. To top it off they have some killer tunes as well! They have a CD that comes out this Summer called "The Monster In Me" featuring 6 NEW songs and was produced by Jordan Schmidt. The CD will be released to I-Tunes on June 10th and the will be doing short tour before having a local

Funeral-SGT Kurt Kruize

2010-04-12T12:00:00.000-07:00

In Memory of SGT Kurt Kruize from St. Cloud, Minnesota, and his dedication to his Country. May God Bless his family and those that loved him. He left four children and a wife in the hands of the Lord if anybody would like to offer help to the family let me know and I can get you in contact with them. My sister has started a fundraiser of which you can donate here: http://

Republican Party Rally - Sarah Palin & Michelle Bachman

2010-04-07T14:00:00.000-07:00

Wednesday at the Republican Party Rally Sarah Palin came to support Michelle Bachmann in her running for re-election. There were thousands of people there in support for the event including press and many many bloggers and protesters. Please feel free to serf the web, watch the news and read local newspapers to educate yourself on the topic from both the Republican and Democratic

Day with the Sis-Portrait

2010-03-18T19:13:00.000-07:00

Oh Lordy, I visited my sister since she is on Spring Break and we ha the most adventrous and wonderful day! We met in Maple Grove so we could go to PF Changs for lunch <----Which was AMAZING (Those lettuce wraps, mmmmm)All Natural Light-Me on left Sister on the right (Jessica)While we were there we just kept it cool and walked around the outside mall, since she had never been there before. We

Lyndon Maurice Miller-Portraits, haha not related

2010-03-01T19:23:00.000-08:00

This is a client I had met through the military. He needed head shots for a website he was creating. Most the images are all done with Natural light. The top image next to the theater is the only image I had used artificial lighting. I just hand-held a portable 580 EX II connected through pocket wizards. I held it with my left hand and to the camera's upper left.

Forest Haven Insane Asylum

2010-01-24T19:48:00.000-08:00

Forest Haven Insane Asylum-24Jan'10 While on Military orders at Fort George G. Meade, MD., a few friends and myself went to scope this so-called creepy insane asylum out. I was ecstatic as soon as I heard the word abandoned and had to go! I wanted to go multiple times because I knew I was going to have a tendancy to take some "touristy" images my first run through. Good thing I

Wedding: John Critz/Carolyn Ennis 09Jan2010

2010-01-10T07:23:00.000-08:00

While at the Defense Information School on Ft. George G. Meade, MD., I had met a wonderful woman, SGT Carolyn Ennis. Never in my career in the military had I found such a strong and dedicated woman to work with and collaborate with. We worked great as a team together and this day she married a just as wonderful man, SGT John Critz and I was her helper/friend/napkin maker(I sewed :) )/Photographer

Baltimore MD- Fun Weekend Adventure

2009-11-15T19:31:00.000-08:00

Thank Goodness for the Timer on the camera and for digital, because it took us quite a few tries b4 we got an image we liked LOLRyan was quite the photographer for the weekend as well..I say he did wellIt was so funny to see him go through some of the doors n such on our tours.So Ryan cam to visit me for 4.5 days and this was our adventure.....Day one:Flew in at 11:15 PM. I parked and went inside

Lights Out Dancing-Promos

2009-10-24T09:23:00.000-07:00

!!!LIGHTS OUT DANCING!!! It took a whole crap ton of time and collaboration between the band and myself to come up with a creative concept and the time paid off. We started off with roughly 6 ideas and kept mixing and matching them all until we came up with this. Mike and I then spent a day out checking out and looking for locations to photograph and oddly

Cartel, The Summer Set, This Providence-Live Show

2009-10-24T09:19:00.000-07:00

There was an amazing Line up last night 24OCT09 at the Quarter on Bourbon in Baltimore MD. There was The Summer Set, This Providence and Cartel. A really awesome show. I didn't plan on taking photos, but thought I would snap a few so I had proof I was there. I really just went to enjoy the music and its amazingness. Then later Some of the band members and others went onto the bus and talked

Silver Heart Club

2009-10-18T13:38:00.000-07:00

Some awesome guys from Wisconsin that were living in AZ at the time and came to MN for me to take their promotional photographs and I am so glad to have met them. They are super chill and let me do almost anything I wanted withing the limits of their style. I would definitely recommend checking them out at: http://www.myspace.com/thesilverheartclub

Grain Belt- Minneapolis MN

2009-09-26T13:47:00.000-07:00

I am, normally, not one to take the initiative to photograph nature and landscape images. However, I was asked by a friend from Colorado to take some photographs of the Grain Belt sign as a gift for his sister. Now to the adventurous part:He had asked me this just after I moved to Ft. Meade, Maryland on Military duty. Thus making it difficult for me to make it to MN to take these images. Well, I

Army Soldier Portrait

2009-09-18T17:16:00.000-07:00

Talk about fun and adventures.....this photo shoot was one of those.During this shoot I had my model, one assistant, two 580 EX II speedlights and a large reflector. However, during the photo shoot one of my female hot shoes connecting my speedlight to the transceiver decided to crash and my flash decided it didn't want to work on slaveSO.....BELIEVE IT or NOTThis image was taken with ONE

Specular Shaped Highlights-Eyes

2009-09-18T17:04:00.000-07:00

I had not researched anything about creating specular highlights with shapes in the eyes. I had just seen an image and decided I would try to troubleshoot and see what I can come up with since troubleshooting and being hands on is the way I learn best so this is how I did it:Let me begin by saying, this is a difficult task. There was no purpose other than experimentation when I photographed this

Recreation

2009-09-14T17:17:00.000-07:00

These images are a recreation of other images. My instructors at the Defense Information School in Ft. Meade chose images they would like us to re-create. When given the images I was told I was not able to use cigarette smoke.The original smoke image had smoke coming out of the ladies mouth and wrapping around so I was slightly discouraged. I tried thinking of everything that could slightly

Nikki Senior Photos

2009-08-22T19:47:00.000-07:00

The weather for this photo shoot kept deciding to be schizophrenic and we canceled the first shoot. Well, a week later, right before I was about to leave for Maryland, we decided no matter the weather we would still shoot, because Nikki, model, really wanted me to shoot her senior pictures. So this Saturday it happened to be rainy, but we made it work and under the circumstances I think they

Absence of Time

2009-08-07T09:09:00.000-07:00

Being busy with Army duties takes away time for large and creative photo shoots. So lately I have been keeping my mind creatively thinking by haveing small shoots of random things I find in my barracks room or on post here in MD.For starters, I have created my own miniature studio. I purchased a bunch of tag/foam boards, some of which are colored on one side and white on the other. All of the

Army Values and More

2009-07-02T17:00:00.000-07:00

Just so everyone understands this post. I am a soldier in the army and have been for almost 7 years. Currently, I am a Staff Sergeant or SSG on Active Duty until January 27th at Ft. Meade Maryland.As it stands I am the Asst. Platoon Sergeant and acting Platoon Sergeant for 117 soldiers, amount fluctuates every week. Anywho, I just wanted to create this blog in appreciation for the confidence my

Ryan Martinez

2009-05-31T10:22:00.000-07:00

Had a shoot with Ryan. He is starting a new music project, which you can follow and check out at www.myspce.com/rmartinezmusic . This shoot was really funny because this guy can dance. He knows practically every Michael Jackson move you could possibly know and started busting out some moves during the shoot. He has You Tube videos of it as well on his myspace. It is so worth a look, he is good!

Lights Out Dancing

2009-04-21T10:28:00.000-07:00

WOW!! These guys are a HOOT!!!! I absolutely loved this photo-shoot. I was unsure of how it was going to turn out not knowing these boys before, but it was absolutely the best experience and photo-shoot I had ever had.To begin, it was a full production...I gave haircuts to those in need of them and later styled each persons hair. They were so polite and incredibly funny. The image with the

All American Rejects Tour with Siny Toy Guns

2009-04-15T20:15:00.000-07:00

ALL AMERICAN REJECTS SHINY TOY GUNSApril 13, 2009. I had a live performance shoot compliments of Kyle. Thanks Kyle if you are reading this and Amanda for getting me hooked up with Kyle. You both ROCK!!Anyhew, my friend Danyel, Amanda and Myself went to the All American Rejects tour show at the Myth in Maplewood, MN. Not going to lie I was pretty pumped to be on the guest list and to be able to go

Self Portrait

2009-03-25T22:08:00.000-07:00

Not gunna lie, I try and stay away from self portraits because they are not the easiest thing in the world. Props to those people that do amazing things when they do them! It takes skillz! Anyway, I really needed a pic of me for my website and so I tried to make a self portrait and I took 167 pictures including test shots before I chose these 3. I would try and explain how I did the lighting but

Fortune Cookie Fails Me

2009-03-25T17:31:00.000-07:00

FORTUNE COOKIE FAILS MEI just had to share this moment with everyone! Cuz when I was a kid fortune cookies were really fortunes....now they kind of tell you what to do. It's so sad and mine just pretty much happened to call me fat the other day! :/

All The Right Moves

2009-03-17T05:38:00.000-07:00

Oh man I have been waiting a long time to put these pics up! We took these pics in earlier February, if I remember correctly. They had recently gotten a new band member and needed new photos and I mentioned this concept to them and they dug it. It totally goes with their fun and quirky personalities and music.This shoot took a long time. I actually walked in circles a billion times around these

"Experienced/Identify"

2009-03-09T16:45:00.000-07:00

So I have been waiting in long anticipation to upload my latest Band Press images, but I have to wait! Grrrr! :) So for now I am posting new images from one of my self projects, "Experienced/Identify". Here are just two from the last weekend I shot of this event. This was the best lighting of the three days at Ft. McCoy and it was Blistering Cold! The sun only came out right before sunset for a

Write This Down -Fog Shoot

2009-01-18T18:05:00.000-08:00

So for the longest time I have wanted to do something with my fog machine. Then Write this down wanted some promos done so I asked them if I could try this small idea and use my fog machine. It was much more difficult than I thought to get the fog to show. I probably should have used some lights in the front but not shining on them, lights to just shine through the fog cuz the front is a little

2009-01-13T18:11:00.000-08:00

Danyel came back again for some more images for her modeling portfolio. Doing this much studio work is a lot different compared to what I normally shoot. But we always have fun because she is so funny and easygoing and a wonderful model to shoot. During this shoot we changed lighting many times but got, I think, 5 different styles of images. These three are just my favorite of the day!I gotta say

2009-01-08T19:58:00.001-08:00

This is my purty sis! Gotta love her!

Identify/Military

2009-01-08T19:31:00.000-08:00

I apologize for putting these images up so late. I put them up on my myspace and forgot to place them on my blog.I did this military series for a self project of mine, but also for the Public Affairs office for the Army Reserve. I really wanted to take pictures in a sense that helped the viewer understand and be able to relate to the soldier in some way. Then published a book which is for

Dustin Phillips Promo/ X-mas

2008-12-20T10:25:00.000-08:00

Dustin Phillips is such an awesome guy. He is so fun to photograph and we always combine our ideas to make something so much fun. And every time we hang out it is a new adventure!Here are his Holiday Pics!

Test

2008-12-13T18:40:00.000-08:00

Today my sister came over and had brought a friend of hers. Ashley, her friend, was so beautiful I asked if I could take some pics of her but she was the farthest from photogenic. I love her though. So after we goofed around and did some best friend shots of the two of them I took one of the pics I took of her for fun and edited it to flatter herself a bit more.I had to edit her hair, obviously,

Danyel, Meshing different generations

2008-11-25T23:30:00.000-08:00

This girl is so awesome! whenever I need a model she is always there to help me out. This shoot was done because I had seen this room with the records and it got me so pumped, because I like color and shape in my images. So one night I asked Dani if she would come shoot and she drove an hour and a half just to come rock out with her socks off during a shoot for me!Thanks so much Dani, you rock my

Danyel Headshots

2008-11-16T19:51:00.000-08:00

This is Danyel. She wanted a buch of different styles of headshots to put out to agencies to try for an acting/modeling career. First we did the actual business shot with the red shirt then just messed around with more dramatic lighting. We would have gotten more options and better outside pics if the day we had met up wasn't 3 degrees BELOW ZERO. But props to her for doing what she could and the

Wedding...10/4...

2008-10-04T19:55:00.000-07:00

May I just say this wedding had the cutest meaning to it. Jenna and her husband would always call eachother on the phone and had this thing where when they were done they would always say 10/4 at the end. So they decided to have their wedding on 10.4.For this wedding I was the second photographer. I was hired on to photograph the candid moments and capture the experience and emotions.I normally

Promo. Dustin Phillips

2008-09-03T12:50:00.000-07:00

This was a shoot for Dustin Phillips. He is a solo artist in the Minneapolis MN area! Feel free to check him out at myspace.com/dustinphillips. He really has some amazing tunes!This, too was a fun shoot like most. The two of us meshed some ideas together and came up with the rocking guitar hero man. It was a lot of fun and there were so many cool moves. Now trying to get permission for the

Friend of a Friends Wedding

2008-08-30T01:22:00.000-07:00

I was at a friend of a friends wedding so I popped a few pics. I didn't have much lighting equipment but I thought these were cute and memorable.

Graphic images/Personal Project

2008-05-13T19:28:00.000-07:00

I have had a personal project for sometime and wanted to get on it. I really wanted to play with photography and dimension. As you can see I went ahead and took an item of the clothing and had it "grow" into the world in which the model is in. Therefore it is not only a piece of her clothing now it is part of her environment, as well.I also, like to create images that are somewhat colorful/shape

ASMP Conclusion

2008-03-27T16:40:00.000-07:00

I am sorry to say I did not make the top three in the ASMP 30@8by10 competition but It was a great experience and I did receive two awards of Excellence. There were some very beautiful images and a vast variety of styles. I am one step further to making my dream a reality.

ASMP Competition

2008-03-06T15:36:00.000-08:00

I entered a contest for ASMP called 30@8x10. In this contest they choose the top 30 images and display them at an exhibit. At the end of the "Boot Camp" meeting, award certificates will be presented to all the finalists. In addition 3 Awards of Excellence will be presented along with a $75 gift card. These are my imges that made it and I can only hope to make one in the top three. Please