Happy New Year & Christmas Too (Snow Day Catch Up)
We finally got our White Christmas weather in northern Indiana... a week or so late! Since it was more of a muddy and gray Christmas here we burned off some cabin fever energy and let the kids get into Christmas PJs for some photos that matched the magical snowy weather outside. (Neither were too picky that it was early January →
Emily and Tomas – Log Chapel December Love Story
Here's a sneak peek at the reception slideshow from Emily and Tomas' beautiful snowy December wedding day! It was a chilly but very sunny day at the Log Chapel and around campus at Notre Dame university. Check out the full-screen version here Like our Facebook page & see more photos or get a reminder by email here when the full →
Just Married – Emily and Tomas
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Katie & Lawrence’s Snowy December Engagement Anniversary Portraits
Perfectly fitting snow day post. (Reports of nearly 2-3 feet of drifting snow in the last 24 hours here in South Bend!) Just before Christmas Katie and Lawrence caught up with me for a sunny and snowy winter engagement session. Turns out the date was the 1-year anniversary of their engagement! In addition to the celebration it was also a perfectly →
Tyler & Dakota’s Winter Engagement Session
We wrapped up December and 2010 with two wintry engagement sessions before Christmas and 2011 arrived. Started the year's finale with Tyler & Dakota on a bitter cold morning downtown. 9:00 am sounds like a good start until Indiana winter decides to blast you with icy wind! We ducked inside nearby buildings between gusts of wind for a mix of →
Winter Wedding Attire
Today's wedding photography attire will include ... thermal wear. Brr! Stay toasty everybody!
Gallery Debut – Rescheduled to March 7th
We've rescheduled the Gallery Debut to Saturday, March 7th to make way for an even easier time for our out of town guests and friends to join us! It's been over 20 years in the making. Ever since 1988 when Eric picked up a 110 camera and wandered the neighborhood with camera in hand he's been snapping photos ever since. Unknown →
Zack Arias sums it up in video
"Johnny 5, now you are hitting the nail right between the eyes." Wow. I caught this video following Zack Arias' blog. For those of you outside the photography world, this week is the WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) convention in Vegas. Yes, warm Vegas. Shiny, warm, not Indiana Vegas where rock star photographers show you shiny new books, cameras, software and →
Power of Positive Thinking
Ok, it was more than positive daydreaming, it was an entire city, state, and region of the country getting tired of the cold. But finally, WE'RE ABOVE ZERO AGAIN! This marks a 33˚ difference from the record-tying -19˚ it was yesterday. Stay toasty. I'm gonna go enjoy some positive temperatures.
Feeling frosty
I love winter. I don't love subzero temperatures. Just thought I should clarify.
Winter Weather in Song Format
Here's a glimpse at Indiana weather today, in song format. Ig2NtHY2g9k The arctic is no respecter of fashion. Ice, snow, nowhere to go. Be safe out there.
Tuesday Thoughts – 2009
Precaffeinated ramblings for old times' sake. I haven't written a Tuesday Thoughts post since last year, and long ago since November at that. Since Election Day there's been a flurry of things happening etting ready for the wintry holidays Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and post-holiday decompression. For anyone who hasn't seen him in person so far this year, Adrian is walking. He's →
First Wedding of the New Year – Indianapolis Wedding
Wedding photographers have it easy, we only have to work one day a week. (ha!) Let's review this one by the numbers: Running on 2 hours of sleep (excitement is contagious) in 20 minutes at 2am I will have been up for 24 hours since those 2 hours of sleep it took 6 hours of car travel and 2 Amp energy drinks, 2 cups of coffee, 1 →
Congrats Amber & Phil
Saturday I spent the evening celebrating with Amber & Phil in Elkhart, Indiana a perfect end to an incredible year. This was the second December wedding I've celebrated with my friend Phil's family. Both at his brother Nathan's wedding in 2006 and his brother-in-law Phil's wedding yesterday it was above 50˚ outside at the end of December. Here's a favorite from →
Sounds of childhood Christmas – $2!
Ever since our first snow in October I've been playing Christmas music while I work. I love the wintry cheer of holiday music. My favorite songs from childhood are, without question, those on the A Charlie Brown Christmas special that aired on TV every year. My parents still have a VHS tape we made of it on TV! (Last year →
Winter is here
Old news, winter's here in Indiana. For some fuss I couldn't post these pics yesterday but the photo cuteness of Adrian in the snow was too adorable to keep offline and I found a way to share them! Our snow baby all bundled up with Mama, ready for his first play in the snow! Wait a minute, this stuff is on the →
Spring has sprung – a snow leak!
My little sis came home from Missouri last weekend for Easter and to meet our baby Adrian. She missed her flight from Chicago to South Bend and made it to the Bucholtz (Polish) Easter late Saturday. Her flight back out early this week was canceled because of severe wind storms. The next was canceled because of this stuff - glops →
back in black
After waking up before my 8:00 alarm, cleaning up and finding my classic black garb, I'm headed out for this year's first wedding shoot. I look forward to being called wedding Paparazzi, Johnny Cash, a priest, maybe even photo ninja. To a very small group of photo nerds, this is my Zone System outfit - varying shades of black / →