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Alissa & Jared’s Wedding Album — Duluth, MN

DRock — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:23:21 +0000

Name sound familiar? I posted images from this August wedding a couple months ago. For about half the weddings I shoot, the couple requests an album and the last few months of the year are usually spent working around the clock to put these together and get them out before the holidays. I've found designing albums to be a nice change of pace and something I enjoy more and more. Well this was the book I designed for them. The first image in the gallery is the cover, while the second image in the slideshow is the opening page which does not have an opposing page hence just the single square image. The rest are two page spreads.

I'd love to hear comments about the design and any suggestions. This is something I'm still fairly new at, but enjoy more and more each year. Thanks!

Alissa & Jared’s Wedding in Duluth, MN

DRock — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:27:58 +0000

About a month ago, I was able to spend 16 hours with Alissa and Jared from the time they began decorating the Depot in downtown Duluth until midnight rolled around and the reception ended. In between, it was an awesome journey marked by some really cool moments. Shortly after saying their vows and immediately after the minister proclaimed them husband and wife, a larger crack of thunder echoed out of the clouds and rain began to fall, but the wedding party was prepared. Umbrellas shot up over the bride and groom and two members of the bridal party grabbed a chair and used that for cover. It was definitely something I had never seen before at a wedding, but who wants a boring and uneventful wedding day right?

Now, a month later, here are some photos from their day at Alissa's aunt's home in east Duluth, Leif Erickson Park and the Depot. I'm in the middle of designing their wedding album and will post pictures of that once that is done. Hopefully these pictures can illustrate how awesome of a day it was and how much of a great time I had covering their wedding day.

Engagements and Weddings…

DRock — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:35:53 +0000

From now on, I am going to start updating my blog with pictures from engagement sessions and weddings that I am shooting. The end of this month through September is going to be really busy for me with about four weddings in five weeks. However, I've already started shooting some weddings and engagement sessions and the more I do these, the more I am liking them. Here are a few shots from the past few weeks...

The first three were from an engagement session I did with Anastasha and Ryan who live in Rochester, MN. We went to the Hartley Nature Center, which I had only visited extensively in the winter while photographing assignments for the Duluth News Tribune. Hartley Nature Center in Duluth is one of the more popular parks in the city and when taking a run along the many trails it offers, it's not uncommon to see everything from turtles to deer run in front of you or almost into you as you meander around.

Now, I normally won't combine images from different engagements and weddings, but I'd like to get these in before the season heats up. The next set of images are from the wedding of Shawn and Hayley. Shawn was the brother of my college roommate Brandon. I'd see Shawn a couple times a year when he would come up to visit friends at UW. Him and Hayley met at UW-La Crosse and like Anastasha and Ryan above, both work at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. The wedding took place with an awesome backdrop of a small lake. It was near perfect weather and it was great to shoot a wedding with friends in attendance.