Dee & Brian's wedding

Dee & Brian were married on Saturday, March 20 in Grand Ledge and it was a beautiful affair. I work with Dee and I remember meeting Brian when they first began to date. Right away, he was involved in her daughters' lives, getting dinner with a group of us and going to see one of the daughter's perform lead in a play. Love blossomed from there!

Dee & Brian are an absolutely fun and beautiful couple. I really looked forward to shooting their wedding and being a part of their day. I struggled to maintain composure because the wedding party was constantly cracking jokes and just having such a fun time. I kept giggling throughout the day. Such characters! I loved how involved Brian was involved in the wedding process. From creating the invitations to writing up the detailed itinerary to designing the wooden hearts above the fireplace in the background of a few photos below, he was very much involved and you can tell just how much he loves Dee.

Congratulations Dee & Brian!

A few more photos at flickr!

ashley

I photographed a senior portrait session with Ashley a couple Sundays ago. She's graduating this year! This gorgeous girl was a blast to photograph, especially with her older sister, Jenny and mom, Mary assisting in the shoot. Ashley is so laidback--even as her sister and mom hoisted her up into vined ledges of silos for pictures and as the rain and wind swept her hair around, she was comfortable and confident.

I still have a ton more left to edit! A couple more are on my flickr page!

christmas 2009

I spent Christmas with my family in Muskegon. Here are a couple photos I took from the day.

My cousin Alena and her son, Trae. Alena is probably the most outspoken and loud person I know. Growing up, she was extremely rambunctious. It's interesting to see how reserved she becomes with her child and how caring she is as a new mother. 

Sienna and Gabrielle are my cousin, Roselea's children. Rose'lea is a couple months younger than I am and we grow up together. We're more like sisters, so I call these girls my nieces. They are so smart and incredibly adorable.

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jimmie again

Yesterday, I photographed Jimmie Deeghan again. This time we had more direction and I'm so pleased with how these turned out. I'm actually super excited about these. I had a hard time choosing which to post. There are so many more.

We started out at my loft. I love window light and instead of busting out the lighting equipment, I took advantage of the nice light coming in. Jimmie had the brilliant idea to create a sign with the name of his album and it's release date. So before photos, we had an arts and crafts hour. Or rather he did. I contributed to the number "2"'s since he writes those loopy two's.

He looks like Michael C. Hall (guy who plays Dexter Morgan in the show, Dexter) especially with the red paint and the white shirt.

We snuck into the Bean building on Cedar St. to get these shots. Thanks Chris VanWyck for the idea to shoot there! The building was a little creepy, but it was the perfect location.

At Elderly

More at Flickr

jimmie

Last Saturday, I snapped some photos of Jimmie Deeghan of Every Avenue. He's releasing his own ep on itunes in February. Buy it. This kid cracks me up. Whether it was him sharing that he loves the author Nicholas Sparks or giving me lip about making him sit in snow (his response to telling him to sit on a step with snow, "you mother f@$%r.") I took a variety of photos since he didn't really know what he wanted and here are a few!

and this one is my favorite, so cute!

More at my flickr..working on getting most of them on there

Christmas tree choppin'

Today, I headed out to Mason with Tom and Matt in search of the perfect Christmas tree. I decided to live vicariously through them and not actually get a tree myself. You won't see many pictures of Matt since he didn't do anything, but sip hot cocoa and disagree with me about which tree was best. They chose one I didn't like, but out of the interest of time and since I was freezing, I pretended it was a great selection.

Typical Tom

What did I tell you? Matt sipping hot cocoa..

the lawatsch fam

I photographed the Lawatsch family last weekend and Julie was absolutely precious. So curious and cute. I had so much fun following along as she bounded around the playground with Jen and Stephen close behind. Here are a few from the session!

I just about melted when I saw Jen put this hat on her.

Entering the playground!

Julie climbing up for some more playground adventure

the whole family!

For a couple more photos, click here