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Working with Jeffery and Sara, their children, their family and their friends was truly wonderful. Their wedding day was full of love, faith, family, joy and newness. I’m so grateful for the opportunities my work gives me to meet so many great people during such monumental days in their lives. I was also unexpected impressed by their amazing their flowers, cake...
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French Regional Park in Plymouth, part of the Three Rivers Park District, provided an awesome location for me to meet Eric and Jessica for the engagement session. Right from the start Eric and Jessica were comfortable with each other and with me photographing them. They have a beautiful relationship of trust and understanding which comes across in how comfortable they...
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I always get a little extra nervous photographing a fellow photographer, especially one that I follow! Laura and Matt are full of zest and tenderness, spontaneity and determination, support and sarcasm. What a fun session documenting the love and relationship of such a dynamic couple: a small business owner and an Iron Man participant. Matt and Laura, you...
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Stillwater is such an amazing town for a photographer. Nooks, crannies, hills, cliffs, rocks, trees, and a river make it a playground of light and backgrounds! I’m so glad Kristen and Jorden suggested it as a location for their engagement session. Jorden and Kristen were up for anything and were so much fun. Their wedding at Grandview Lodge next fall is going...
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So much fun to meet and photograph Rob and Danielle. Beautiful rustic cabin near Crosslake, fun spunky dog and a couple in love! So looking forward to their wedding next year at Manhattan Beach Lodge. To view the images at their best click the first to view it larger then use the arrows below each image to proceed through the...
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Manhattan Beach Lodge in the fall is hard to beat unless you add an awesome couple with tons of style. Style from beginning to end. Style that started with the purse and dress, continued to the hand woven ceremony archway, proceeded upward with the reception decor and had colored paper lanterns and Manhattan’s amazing sunset as the finale. Teresa and Jeff, what...
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Chelsie and Sean are substantially different people from when I photographed this session less than 6 weeks ago; they are parents to beautiful Clara. How amazing it is that their love is so full that now there’s Clara, beautiful, wonderful, amazing Clara. I’m so happy that we had the opportunity to shoot this session for this reason alone. This was a very...
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Jake and Brittany’s epic Northwoods Engagement Adventure! Well… maybe not epic, but pretty awesome. I love how my work allows me access to the intimacy of beautiful relationships. Getting to know Jake and Brittany during their engagement session made me even more excited to photograph their wedding at Manhattan Beach Lodge in Crosslake next...
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Koreena and Jason’s wedding day began with Koreena getting ready at The Lodge in Brainerd, continued with a pontoon ride for the bride leaving from Lost Lake Lodge and arriving at the lakeside ceremony with a bag piper. After the ceremony the celebration continued with a tented reception and dance at the family cabin on Gull Lake with a beautiful sunset view and...
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What a beautiful day! Nick and Sarah’s wedding was such a beautiful wedding. Hair by Studio Posh in Crosslake, getting ready at Whitefish Lodge, first sight on the Manhattan Beach Lodge docks (complete with float plane), ceremony on the beach, flower by Celebrations Floral Design, patio cocktail hour, tented lakeside wedding reception, the amazing sunset and...
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The diversity of locations Minnesota provides is astonishing. I grew up in Southwest Minnesota with corn and soybean fields as far as the eye could see. Now I live in the Brainerd Lakes Area where no roads are straight because they are all going around a lake. John and April’s wedding took place at the La Rue Mine Pit in the Iron Range of Northeast Minnesota...
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Check out Barry and Debbie’s wedding on the front page of the MN Bride website. http://mnbride.com/ After the website cover changes check out their wedding feature...
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So much fun playing around with Kyle and Maggie for their engagement session just north of Brainerd. I love that I get to meet and start relationships with so many great people from all around the Midwest and United States. Kyle and Maggie drove up from Nebraska for their engagement shoot just days before starting their second year of law school. Kyle and Maggie,...
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Nick and Kirsten were so full of excitement and joy on their wedding day that it was contagious! I absolutely love their outlook on life with such a hopeful and promising future together. Carrie and her staff at Cragun’s Legacy Golf Course did a splendid job hosting the wedding cocktail hour, dinner and dance and the grounds provided wonderful locations for images....
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Amanda and Alex’s wedding was relaxed, intimate, beautiful, personal and full of hope. Bay Lake’s Church Island provided a personally significant and beautiful location for the wedding ceremony. Then Alex’s family cabin provided a familiar, meaningful location for the post wedding cocktail hour. Finally, Ruttger’s Bay Lake Lodge provided...
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Nick and Sarah, what a beautiful and determined couple. One is a pilot working on becoming a captain, the other is in school to be a nurse anesthetist both while planning a wedding! July and August have been so busy that I’m posting this engagement session AFTER Nick and Sarah are already married! There really isn’t an end to the busyness in...
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WHOA! This August has been extremely busy, so I apologize for neglecting the blog for a few weeks. Every summer I am amazed at how beautiful it is up here in the Brainerd Lakes Area. It is a joy to photograph here and some of my couples get a mini-vacation out of the trip too! I met Teresa, Jeff and their little girl at the Crosslake Dam, just across from...
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Brian and Molly’s engagement session took place at Molly’s father’s beautiful estate in Crosslake near the town of Crosslake, MN. I’m super excited to photograph their wedding in September at the Pine Peaks Event Center in Northern, MN. We had beautiful weather, a beautiful puppy and a beautiful estate to work with for their engagement session....
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Kaleb and Vanessa’s wedding was post-poned from last fall to this June because their church, Holy Redeemer Catholic, was being remodeled. Holy Redeemer was my parish as I grew up as well. The church has always been a beautiful church in my memory of it, but, was at one time much more beautiful before they painted the entire inside beige. I arrived in...
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As time roles on in our lives many times our ideas, expectation and dreams get in the way of seeing the beauty being given us in the very moment we are living. The Growing Love sessions that I offer are two things: one, an opportunity to rediscover the beauty that is being given in the very moment we are living right now and two, a celebration of the love in our life...
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Grandview Lodge, a beautiful day, a couple that is in love surrounded by loving family and friends, what a great wedding. I’m so blessed to have been able to witness the day, the events, the people. A few points that stand out in my memory are one of the most touching gifts from a groom that I can remember, a wonderfully funny and sentimental speech...
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Barry and Debbie, what a beautiful wedding. After the monsoons of Minnesota plagued the state for three straight weeks, Barry and Debbie’s wedding day had wonderful weather. Wonderful weather combined with the amazing Chase on the Lake in Walker, MN, Leech Lake and Barry’s family’s property made for a terrific wedding setting. I met Barry and Debbie...
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I remember, maybe two to three months ago, I ran into Beth at the post office (we are acquaintances) and it struck me, without anything more than a casual conversation, that this is an open soul. I was struck enough that I sent her a message stating so. What does that mean anyways, to have an “open soul?” To me, an open soul is a person who...
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Rhett and Kim…. fresh, exciting, passionate, alive! These two live the expectation of great things from life with each other. It rained… was sunny for an hour and during the ceremony… then rained some more… then tornado warning… BUT the joy of their wedding day was not affected at all! Also, I was reminded that the wedding day is just...
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Oh, there was so much to capture in this session and there’s never enough time! The anticipation of a man and woman about to be wed, the newness of love between a boy and his newly forming family, the nervousness of what this could all mean and how it will all turn out filled with the hope that can only come from knowing that it will be beautiful as it develops...
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Go back a couple of posts to see Adam and Joanie’s Growing Love session. Here’s the storybook that I made for them. My goal is to capture the heart of their relationship and I’ve found that a storybook is the best tool. I’m now booking Growing Love session at $150 for the one hour session, please contact me by clicking the contact button above...
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What do I say about Amy and Jim. I mean I could say they are “good people”, but man that is generic, so I’ll skip saying it even though they really are. Perhaps instead… you know those people in your life (maybe it is just me, but I doubt it) who you have an intuition that you’d be great friends with but circumstances arise in a way...
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It was great to meet Derek and Amy at Ruttger’s Resort just outside of Brainerd and then venture to some hidden gem locations near Bay Lake. Derek and Amy were serious troopers considering we each flicked at least 20-30 wood ticks off during our one hour engagement shoot. I’m grateful that Amy and Derek were willing to drive nearly 5 hours for their...
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It was one of the first really nice, warm days of spring this year when I met Nick and Kirsten at Madden’s Resort for their engagement session. Both recent graduates (technically Nick was about 3 weeks away from graduation yet), it was great to meet this couples with the adventure of life still fully in front of them. What a year they are going to have,...
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I was very excited to meet Sarah and Mark for their engagement session. They drove up from Minneapolis for their engagement session, but we had never met in person only talked via telephone and emailed frequently and their wedding is in just a few weeks! For their engagement session we decided to shoot at the same location as their wedding, Grandview Lodge in the...
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To start let me say that Joanie and Adam are wonderful! Second, let me say that I photograph relationships. I love relationships as I think they are what make life worth living, they are the source and outlet of joy, truth and love. Life moves… if there’s one constant in life it is that life is changing, forever changing. And like life, our relationships...
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Scott is a good friend of mine who is a photographer in the Twin Cities metro, check him out: www.thethirdimage.com He and I have been friends for a couple of years helping each other with referrals, He covered for me when my dad died, but we never met until just a few months ago at Biff Ulm’s ( www.vada-voom.com ) workshop on the beautiful Minnesota North...
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I absolutely love learning about other cultures and about people’s histories. When Chammy mentioned that they were having a Cambodian wedding in the morning and Western wedding in the afternoon, I was so excited. For me, photography is a tool to get to a more intimate level of relationship with people. It provides me opportunities to meet new people, learn...
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This is a new website for Tim Larsen Photography and we absolutely love it. The ONLY thing we don’t love is that the blog images are a different size than previous blogs, so I will be backfilling the blog as time allows me to resize images for the posts. Thanks.
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Here’s a great article to help couples who are looking at photographers for their wedding. The part of the article that struck me the most was the difference between images actually capture on the wedding day in the “heat of the moment” versus those captured on workshops/model shoots, etc. When you have 1 day or 7 days to work with incredibly hot,...
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On Thursday we welcomed our third daughter into the world. Betty Rosella is a miracle who tears open my heart. I will never be able to love her enough so my complete dependence on Christ is again revealed to me. Oh how I need Him, for me and for my daughter. Mom and baby are doing well. Betty, my mother, was killed in a car accident by a sleeping driving when I was 4,...
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Just last week my photography from a couple of my Brainerd weddings was featured in the Brainerd Weddings North publication that is created by the Brainerd Dispatch. The article is a feature article about Cragun’s Resort and Cragun’s Legacy. I’ve photographed a lot of weddings at both facilities and Cragun’s does a wonderful job hosting...
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Jeff’s and Kelly’s wedding was held at Crosslake Lutheran Church with their reception at Whitefish Lodge in Crosslake. It was a lovely fall wedding in Northern Minnsota filled will great family and friends. When we find that someone who is willing to walk the road with us, it is truly a gift. Jeff and Kelly have this relationship and it was a blessing to...
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Jason and Abbey are vibrant, fun and super creative. I met Abbey when she was a bridesmaid in a wedding, Jessica’s, I photographed a few years ago. In fact, Jessica was a bridesmaid in this wedding and she brought her little one with to the wedding as well! I love seeing my clients after their wedding to see how they are and what is new with their lives. Jason...
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As much as I love shooting wedding in Brainerd, I love getting out to the rest of Minnesota to shoot wedding just as much. Justin and Michelle were married at one of my all time favorite Minnesota destination resorts, Lutsen Resort. It is always beautiful there: the history, the scenery, the seclusion, the big lake, the great food and service. Lutsen Resort truly...
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I love photographing Crosslake weddings. Brainerd to Crosslake is a 35 minute drive, but the difference in feel between Gull Lake and Crosslake is really suprising. If you’re in the area considering hosting your wedding in the Brainerd Lakes Area, be sure to consider Crosslake as well, especially Manhattan Beach Lodge. Corey and Jackie were married at Immaculate...
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Kyle and Brenda’s wedding was wonderful and I knew it would be because I photographed Brenda’s sister Kate’s wedding a couple of years earlier in Brainerd at the Northland Arboretum and her wedding was so much fun. I am amazed at how different two sisters can be and they can both be completely beautiful in their uniqueness. Carrie at Cragun’s...
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It is always a joy to return to my home town to shoot a wedding. Living in Brainerd with trees and lakes everywhere makes me see rural Minnesota in a new way that is really quite beautiful. A beauty that was always there, but never noticed when I lived there. I love shooting weddings in all parts of Minnesota from Marshall to Lutsen Resort and Grand Marais. Chelsie...
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Josh and Cassie were married at Antler’s Pavilion which is part of Breezy Point Resort in the beautiful Brainerd Lakes Area of Minnesota. Sometimes I take for granted living in such beautiful part of the state, but a Brainerd wedding always has something special about it. Hosting a Minnesota destination wedding can benefit your wedding guests as well as they get the...
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There are many perks for being a Brainerd photographer. Boat rides are among my favorite perks for weddings in the Brainerd Lakes Area. Some fun time to get away with just your wedding party and celebrate the marriage that just took place. So fun, so intimate, so beautiful. For an authentic, vintage Brainerd resort feel, certainly consider Hungry Gull Restaurant at...
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I’ve known Jay since we used to go fishing together and hang out in high school and I can tell you Laura is perfect for Jay and visa versa. They had a beautiful wedding surrounded by many great friends and family (many of whom I know well) in Saint Paul at Saint Catherine’s Chapel (aka- St. Kate’s). Their ceremony was follow by a boat ride across...
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Chris and Michelle’s wedding was my first wedding at the beautifully renovated Chase on the Lake in Walker, MN. I remember driving through and exploring Walker and seeing this decrepit on building thinking it must have had a wonderful hay day and it would be great if they could renovate it. Then one day I was watching Jason Davis “On the Road” and...
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It rained, I met Kelsey at the salon with her bridesmaids to capture her veil being placed. It rained, we drove to the church to capture Kelsey getting ready for her wedding. It rained, it rained, it rained. Then, just for 20 minutes, it sprinkled and we ran outside and make as many images as possible in 20 minutes! Kelsey and Wade are two beautiful people who I...
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There was a constant mist in the air from Gitche Gumee for Rob and Deanna’s wedding day, which at Lutsen Resort adds to the already amazing ambiance of the location. Rob and Deanna, like many of my clients, traveled quite a ways to get married at Lutsen Resort…. from California. Deanna is the type of person who fills any company they are in with energy...
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Mike and Jeri Sue are great friends with one of my favorite wedding coordinators in the Brainerd area, Crystal. In fact, I think if you asked Jeri or Crystal they’d say they are best friends. Crystal was, after all, Jeri Sue’s maid of honor. Mike and Jeri had a beautiful winter wedding in Crosslake, followed by a reception at their place of work, Moonlight...
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Boe and Casey’s wedding was simply amazing. Boe and Casey have a relationship where words are not needed, there’s just an understanding. Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, MN provides a wonderful location for a winter wedding and the Saint Thomas Aquinas Chapel is breathtaking, especially the organ and ceiling artwork. Just amazing. Boe and Casey, it was a...
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Russ and Kathy’s Minnesota wedding was on the prestigious Summit Avenue at the Saint Paul Club. It is a beautiful estate just next door the the governor’s mansion, which cause some parking issues, but nothing big. Russ and Kathy, their children and grandchildren were wonderful to work for because of their graciousness and...
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Madden’s Resort provided a beautiful fall location for my engagement session with Jeff and Kelly. Bridges, docks, colored trees, courts, tons of stuff to work with for a Minnesota fall engagement session. Jeff and Kelly were up for anything so we started just before sunset and worked through dusk to create daytime and nighttime images. I love the variety. Jeff...
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Barry and Debbie’s wedding is next spring at The Chase in Walker, MN which, in my opinion, needs to be on everybody’s list if you are planning a Minnesota destination wedding. I pumped to photograph their wedding. Barry and Debbie made it up to Brainerd to photography their engagement at just the perfect time in the fall, not too cold, leaves are turned,...
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David and Rebecca were married at Breezy Point Resort’s Antler’s Pavilion just 20 minutes north of Brained. As you can see, Becki and David are beautiful people and when you add in their wonderful (and beautiful) friends and family it makes for a great wedding day. The staff at Breezy Point did a wonderful job and the day went off without a hitch. David and...
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Travis and Abbey, what can I say… beautiful, fun, great friends, great clients, great BIG dog. Their outdoor wedding at Ruttger’s Resort really captured the essence of a Minnesota destination wedding and it was great to photograph. Wedding overlooking Bay Lake, pontoon rides, drinks on the deck, party in a tent…. it was wonderful. Trav and...
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Tim and Ashlee have a beautiful intensity in their relationship. They live life seriously and account for the beauty that they see with their hearts and appreciate it. They’ve surrounded themselves with people who value what they value and love what they love. They wedding was at Tim’s cabin just north of the Twin Cities with their reception and dance on...
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Preston and Aimee, wow. Aimee is a photographer herself and it shows. Her styling and attention to detail were tremendous, plus her understanding the creation of a photograph made us more of a team than a photographer and a client. Their wedding was at Timberwood Church in Brainerd with their reception and dance at Mayson’s Grill in Pequot Lakes. Wedding...
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