Scott & Jaclyn | Wedding: Preview

What a beautiful wedding today! Stay tuned for more photos!

Levi & Emily | Wedding: Preview

Levi & Emily's wedding today was out of this world beautiful... I seriously can't. wait. to share the whole wedding! Congrats to the new Mr. & Mrs. Powers!

Justin & Jessica | Anniversary: Preview

They make the already beautiful Milwaukee lake front look even better! More coming soon!

Seth & Laura | Wedding: Preview

It was a joy to capture Seth & Laura's wedding day! Looking forward to sharing more of their lovely celebration!

Nathan | Senior: Preview

It feels like ages since I shot a high school senior session! It was threatening rain today, but the morning turned out with the perfect amount of cloud cover and filtered sunlight. Come back soon for more!

Michael & Laura | Wedding: Preview

I meant to have this up Saturday night after the wedding, but I was so exhausted from a wonderful day of shooting and celebrating Laura's wedding to Michael. Such a beautiful day! Rain and cold couldn't put a damper on all the joy. :-) More to come!!

P.S. Stay tuned for pictures from France too! :-)

Aaron & Megan | 2nd Anniversary: Preview

Here's a little teaser for you! Megan so wanted to get 2nd anniversary photos in the snow, but our schedules weren't lining up. Spring weather (as in, 73 degrees) arrived and it looked like it would have to be next year... and then we were obligingly dumped with several inches of snow, and on a day that I was free! So, all you midwesterners complaining about the snow - blame Megan, she was praying for it. ;-) Come back soon for the rest of the shoot!

And just a reminder... I'm going to be in Paris and the south of France next month and I would just love to photograph a few lovely people if any of you live near there, are traveling there, or know somebody who is. :-) Drop me a line!

Levi & Clara | Anniversary: Preview

The day could not have turned out more perfectly for Levi & Clara's anniversary session. Twinkling lights in the town park? Yes, please. More to come!

Masquerade Styled Shoot | Preview

Whew! What a month! I had a whirlwind of people fitting in pictures before it turned cold (and just in time - my last shoot was frigid!). Thank you all for bearing with me while I got the mountain of work done and biggest thanks to my clients for patiently waiting a little longer than usual for their photos!!

One of the fun projects I worked on was this styled portrait session. A crazily over the top purple dress, a ballerina model and a masquerade theme made for a very fun morning! I'll be sharing more soon!

Thanks to Laura from Lemondrop Designery for coming up with this shoot and

Melody for being our lovely model!

Emily | Recital Shoot: Preview

Once upon a time, I happened upon a water nymph...

More from this dreamy senior recital shoot coming soon!

Michael & Laura | Engagement: Preview

Sorry for the late post everyone - I have a bunch of stuff to post, just so little time to post it! :-) I just couldn't resist a preview from such a special engagement session tonight for my dear friend Laura and the man who has stolen her heart. We ended the session in a coffee shop, and I might have been swooning a little over their cuteness + window reflections + ...well, their cuteness. :-)

Frank & Katherine | Wedding: Preview

Ooooohhh, my heart. I know I keep doing this thing where I share a top favorite image right off the bat... but seriously. How can I keep this to myself? Frank & Katherine are so perfect, and their wedding was an autumn dream! Excited to share more of this one soon!

Life of Late | October 2014

Titling this post was quite the ordeal. It was going to be "What I'm Loving." I feel like that was a spin off of the McDonald's slogan. "I'm Lovin' It." Except, I'm much more sophisticated than that, so I phrased it more correctly. Though I suppose it should technically be, "What I am Loving." And that still doesn't sound right. Probably "What I Love" is the most concise version. I am completely overthinking this... and that's exactly what I have done for the past 20 minutes. I can be considered officially pathetic when I sit in front of the the thesaurus trying to come up with a clever post title. I even translated it into French, to see if that would make it sound fancier. "Friday Favorites"? Definitely cliche. "Current Favorites"? Boring. "Contemporaneous Choices"? (that is obviously the fruit of the thesaurus). Everyone will just think that's WEIRD. *sigh* Ok... "What I'm Loving." My brain is so tired I don't even know what I think of that!

Welcome to the world of an over thinker and a perfectionist. Sometimes, it is not a fun world. Creating blog post titles is serious and stressful business, ladies and gentlemen.

That's me, pretending to be a statue. Just as proof that I CAN loosen up. Sort of. Sometimes.

*deep breath*

Now that we have that out of the way, here goes the actual post. Once a month I'm taking a break from the "meaty" posts consisting of photography work, photography tips, and other such instructional posts. And I'm just going to talk about what is catching my eye this month or other randomness!

- It's October! One of my favorite months. Trees turn colorful this month and we pull out the fall sweaters, the tights, the boots. I get to wear my two cute, cool weather not-cold-enough-for-the-winter-coat coats. We drink more coffee and hot chocolate. We plan bonfires with friends. Part of me is sorry to say goodbye to summer because we had such a short one this year, but I'm still welcoming fall with open arms.

- The 1940's. That's nothing new, but I've just been really into it lately. Having so much fun looking at old ads and pictures on Pinterest. I love this picture.

- A couple of weeks ago I happened to be browsing Craigslist and stumbled across this darling little desk. A few emails later, we were headed out to look at it and brought it home. Some of you may know that my bedroom remodeling project has been... well, quite a process shall we say. It is so fun to have such an adorable new piece to take the room another step in the right direction! And it's the perfect home for my vintage cameras and photographs.

- I cut my hair! It hasn't been quite this short in a long time. It was a spur of the moment decision the day before leaving for Remembering WWII. It's just hair - it'll grow. :-) And right now I'm rather enjoying something different!

- I don't know what happened to me, but this year I seem to have turned into the stereotypical girl who loves shoes. As a very little girl, I definitely loved any "clacky shoes" (anything with a heel!) but as I got older I always just had shoes purely for practical purposes (by choice - I never wanted to buy more than I absolutely needed. Yep, one pair of sandals, a pair of sneakers, and a pair of winter shoes and I was set). Then... I must have gotten fashion conscious and now I realize how the right pair of shoes can make your outfit. My mom doesn't know what to make of me. Right now I have my eye on these in burgundy - I just love that color for fall!

- This recipe. The perfect, slightly spicy, not too sweet, cocoa-esque concoction. And it's healthy! It looks kind of weird, but believe me... it's delicious!

I'll leave you with a couple of previews from last week!

Wendy | Portraits: Preview

Waking up to catch the sunrise is always worth it, especially when there's water and piers and beautiful curly-haired friends in striped dresses involved. I'll be posting the rest of these soon!

Ashton & Jennifer | Anniversary: Preview

I'm beginning to think that married love is quite possibly my very favorite thing to photograph. Can't wait to share more from Ashton & Jennifer's anniversary session!

Wedding Breakfast at the Hunt Club | Styled Shoot: Preview

This shoot has been under wraps for months, as we are waiting on publication news, but while we wait I just can't resist posting a little teaser! A full post will be coming eventually...

Dress: Veils & Tails | Hair & Makeup: A Little Bit of Blonde | Venue: Hunt Club Steakhouse | Model: Liz Nye

Emil & Jesica | Wedding: Preview

Shot a beautiful wedding today... the rain held off and gave us lovely even light. More to come!

Frank & Katherine | Engagement: Preview

Couldn't have loved today's engagement session more!! Excited to share the rest very soon!

P.S. Make sure you're following my Facebook page and Instagram - I sometimes post extra previews over there, especially on IG. :-)

Blogging Better | Q&A

Good morning all! I've been thinking about the blog lately, and how I have not been very consistent - my posts are irregular and tend to come in big spurts with long intervals of nothing in between, depending on my flow of work at the moment and how busy life is. I would like to try to be more regular with blogging, and attempt (a little scared to say it), at least for a trial period, consistently putting up 2 posts a week.

I will probably be doing some more posts geared toward photographers, as well as some more personal snippets instead of exclusively using the blog as a portfolio.

My current plan is to put up new work on Mondays, and a miscellaneous post of some sort on Fridays. Previews will either be in with Friday posts or just whenever (do you all even like previews? Should I keep doing them?). So... to kick off "break out of just posting work" - I'm opening it up for questions! If you have a question about photography, weddings, my cat, or what I order at Dairy Queen, drop it in the comments below and I will do my best to answer it next Friday! :-)

I'll leave you with a sneak peek of Aaron & Megan's anniversary session! I was starting to think we had exhausted our location options when we stumbled on this little vine covered old building. More coming soon!

Jacob & Jessica | Wedding: Preview

I realize that the last thing I posted was their engagement pictures... but I couldn't resist giving you just a little taste of the perfection from today. :-) Can't wait to share the rest!!