Congrats, newlyweds, on your 8th anniversary!

Happy Anniversary, Brittani & Brian! I shared these favorites from this beautiful summer wedding at the Morris Estates Chapel in Niles, Michigan earlier today on Instagram. Perfectly sunny skies, summer colors all around the country chapel, and beaming smiles from the Bride and Groom! Congrats, newlyweds! -eB

These are a few of my favorite things #wedding #camera #instablog via Instagram http://ift.tt/2ahVZGu

This spring and summer have been rich with celebrations, milestones, and joy. Last week we looked back a decade while marking an anniversary, today we go back 9 years for Katie & Mathew.  These are just a few of my favorite images and moments from their beautiful ceremony at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.  […]

Happy 10th Anniversary to newlyweds Natalia & Jeff! Here are some of my favorites from their wedding ceremony at Saint Michael’s Church and reception at Plymouth Country Club in Plymouth, Indiana. Full disclosure: I was a far less choosy editor and far less technically proficient photographer in 2006 and digging through the archives showed a […]

Museum of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois, 2004 This image from a Chicago museum trip lived quietly on a contact sheet and in a binder full of old negatives from photo studies in 2004. I shot a mix of 35mm and a newfangled 2 megapixel digital camera that day, but hefted up the Bronica SQa for […]

Every walk is a photo walk if you believe! Addie joined me for a stroll to pick up big brother & sis from their last week of the school year. Nikon FA 35mm film camera came along too. I’ve been snapping film pics of the near daily walks home from school. Some with the camera […]

Disclaimer: This is what happens when I let my couples design their own engagement portrait session. Authenticity ahead. Back in 2004, two of my most talented musician friends helped me expand my ideas of what Engagement Portraits were supposed to look like when they put aside their acoustic guitar and baby grand piano and stepped […]

Tip 1: Start with what you’ve got. My “serious” cameras were away in my bedroom when I was making Saturday morning breakfast and saw the sunrise streaming through the curtains. Outdated functioning 2011 refurbished smartphone camera was nearby and caught it before the lighting changed. Years before smartphones crashed the photo-making party it was up […]

#nofilter needed while out on a December day that felt more like early spring than a year end holiday countdown. Happened upon a little beam of warm sunlight making shadows through this bench. Kids are calm, film camera out of the bag to work on completing an old roll of 35mm I know I’ll leave […]