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 […]

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 […]

  Shawnale and Jerry reminded me that there are so, so many cool places to shoot in downtown Peoria on Sunday! Now, we did have to fight off at least two other pro photographers around where we were working but no matter, these two took it all in stride. And they did the most important […]

Just a normal, everyday bridal show. Folks talking to wedding vendors. We were meeting with lots of brides (and a few grooms) when this guy suddenly yelled “Krystal” and proceeded to give Krystal a big hug. Now, as a matter of course, this is not unusual for us. But usually I recognize the person — […]

Tour Dewitt 2016 attracted nearly 200 riders once again, taking advantage of a beautiful summer morning to tour the countryside of Dewitt County. The mix of riders from Clinton, Decatur, Champaign, Bloomington and other area cities had choices of nine, 20, 40 or 62 mile-long routes beginning and ending at Clinton’s United Methodist Church. As […]

Well, beside the absolutely horrible headline I wrote for this, I hope you enjoy a few photos of the members of Clinton’s Dance Extreme taken from their show at May Days on Sunday! I only caught the ending of it — or I would have shot more — dancers are always a treat to photograph and […]