The Portfolio
A selection of what
the work looks like.
Nineteen years. Three hundred and fifty weddings. The quiet moments, the impossible light, the first dance that ran long, the venues nobody saw coming. Arranged in four movements so the work reads the way the days actually felt.
The Portrait
Close, quiet, considered — the photographs that work without an audience. A hand on a back, a brow lean, a laugh behind a bouquet. Most of my work is observed; this is the other half.
The trick to a natural expression is never asking for one. I don’t say “smile.” I set up a moment — walk toward me, stop here, tell them something true — and let the face do what it does. By the time we’re five minutes in, most couples have forgotten I’m there. That’s where these photographs come from.
The Light
The sky does half the work. My job is to know when — and to have the timeline built around it. Brainerd Lakes golden hour runs long in summer; Lake Superior does something nobody inland ever sees; a Minnesota storm can break at the exact moment you hoped it wouldn’t. These are the photographs that came out of paying attention.
The Gesture
Movement, mischief, the first dance, a garter in the teeth. These are the photographs that make a couple laugh a year later — the ones they didn’t plan for, the ones they didn’t even see happen. Documentary is the half of the work nobody can fake.
During the candid parts of the day, I try not to be noticed. I stay at the edge of the room, I move quietly, I shoot with fast primes so I don’t need to interrupt anything. A decade into this work I learned that the best moments never happen when a camera is pointed at them — so I stopped pointing, and started watching. Most of these were made from six feet away while nobody was looking.
The Day
Wedding parties, resorts, lakeshore — the places the weddings actually happened. The Brainerd Lakes area gives you three thousand acres of resort property and ten thousand lakes. The North Shore gives you a Great Lake that doesn’t act like the rest of them. The Twin Cities give you architecture. These are the photographs that remember where.
Fin.
Your wedding deserves
the same attention.
If something in here looked like the way you want to remember your day, let’s talk about it. Peak summer and fall weekends book twelve to eighteen months out — but if your date is closer, reach out anyway. Openings exist, and I’d rather have the conversation than miss it.
I respond to every inquiry within twenty-four hours. The first conversation is a phone or video call, no pressure and no sales pitch — just two people talking about the day you’re picturing.