You could say Darrel and Mitchi’s celebration was 50 years in the making. And you’d be right, as 50 years ago on November 30, 1968, the couple held a special ceremony and became husband and wife. Darrel was still in the US Air Force at that time and taking a bit of time off for […]

Awesome wedding! Met up a couple of gals last year, Julianne and Shannon, who were planning a very cool wedding and found my photography as lucky enough to capture their special day. Krystal and I had met up with Julianne about five years ago, when she was the maid of honor for Conchita and Jonathon’s […]

Krystal and I were standing there, minding our own business, at a Bloomington bridal show a bit more than a year ago looking for wedding couples.   You know — the usual, things photographers do at bridal shows. Hand out pens. Show off our gorgeous canvas wraps and our wonderful wedding albums. Talking with folks. […]

Weddings are always a time of emotion. Kylie and Cody held true to that standard for their fall wedding.   Joy, laughter, tears, happiness, sadness and much more.   When Kylie and Cody first booked with us, we had no idea what kind of wild roller coaster her wedding planning would end up being. The […]

Signature Shots We recently blogged a photo of Liz and Cole’s wedding with geese flying above them. And we had a few people ask about the lead photo at sunset of them with the birds at Erin’s Pavilion (here). Not the technical details behind it, but the why of it and what we actually call it. […]

Erin’s Pavilion We headed out on a Friday afternoon to a pretty, new wedding spot for us – Erin’s Pavilion at Southwinds Park in our capital city of Springfield. The event, rehearsal before wedding day for Cole and Liz. Wow, what an impressive place!  The pavilion’s a very new addition in Springfield’s park district, opening in 2010. The facility, […]

Our friend Shelby and her fiancé Akeem brought us a wonderful subject a few weeks ago — a little baby who overcame the huge adversity of being born very very early. Meet JJ! This wonderful little guy did make life an adventure — he was far more curious about what was going on than interested […]

Folks meet and fall in love all the time. Over dinner, movies, ski trips, hunting trips and much more. We’re looking forward to working with Kylie and Cody later this year on their wedding day but wanted to share a bit more of an unusual engagement shoot as they pulled out their gear for a […]

There are many nice and beautiful places to shoot photos — but among my favorites happens to be Robert Allerton Park in Monticello. And Katherine and Jack had not been there in a while so it seemed like the perfect place to go for their engagement photos. And it was! From the beautiful grounds, to […]

Working with folks like these two is awesome, meet our engaged couple Ashley and Bobby! These cool folks are planning their wedding for 2017. We were displaying our wedding images at the Doubletree in Bloomington, Illinois, during a wedding show when this tall, gorgeous young gal sprang up and announced that we would be photographing […]