Wooded, Snowing Northern MN Engagement \\ Annessa + Eric

I'm excited for Annessa's and Eric's September wedding because their wedding locations, the history of how they met and their love story are so authentic and  serendipitous.  Their wedding at both of their families' cabins because they met there one lucky summer while Eric was in Anness'a hometown playing baseball has my heart looking forward to meeting their family and friends.  It is a beautiful thing how we meet the people who are so important in our lives.

I drove away from their engagement session full of gratitude for the way these things happen, both to my clients and to myself

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Exploring with film at Grand Superior Lodge

Minnesota Film Photographer

Over the past 6 months I've been exploring with shooting film for a couple of reasons.

  1. It slows me down and pushes me to make better compositions because each press of the shutter costs me about $1.50
  2. The COLORS.  Oh my I love the colors. I love how you can change the exposures and processing combinations to manipulate the colors you get in return.
  3. There's something about the analog process of actually creating a new thing, in the real world, the instant you press the shutter.

Here's an image from Megan and Barry's wedding at Grand Superior lodge shot with Kodak Portra400 push processed two stops.   I love the colors.  Love, love, love them: the richness combined with the softness, her skin tones to die for, the inky blacks, the subtle transitions, all of it.

Canon AE-1 with 50/1.8 at 2.2.

Madden's Resort Engagement Session - Ronnie + Erin

Erin and Ronnie's taste and spontaneity made for a great engagement session.  A very spontaneous engagement session, like a booked their wedding and engagement session 5 minutes before we started shooting spontaneous!  Do to my schedule we had 30 minutes for their engagement session at Madden's resort but man did we fit a lot into that 30 minutes!  Erin and Ronnie showed up with their A game so it worked perfectly. 

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Jenna + Spike | Engagement Video

An engagement video is a great way to communicate to your love story to your friends and family.  Its a great video to play at your receptions to tell your guests your relationship history and love story. Its a great video invite that you can use on your online wedding website to invite guests to your wedding and its a great keepsake for your future children to communicate the history of your family.  Enjoy Jenna and Spike's engagement video.

Bar Harbor Supper Club Engagement Session \\ Katie + Sean

In love. Very comfortable with each. Willing to be vulnerable to each other. Able to depend on the other's acceptance of them in their vulnerability. So beautiful.

When I photographed Katie and Sean's engagement session at Fritz Loven Park near Bar Harbor Supper Club on the North End of Gull Lake, these of the attributes of their relationship that I noticed.  Very excited for their wedding this coming March.

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After shooting at Fritz Loven park on Lake Margaret just north of Gull Lake we headed over to the beautiful docks at the newly remodeled Bar Harbor Supper Club.