I was hired by my good friends, Tim and Bevin, to shoot their nuptials in Traverse City, Michigan. Tim is an insurance agent for Hagerty Insurance and Bevin is the photographer/owner of SweetPea Photography. She has a love of cowgirl items and 50’s styling. Her wedding was “Bevinized” with old woodsy charm and a country...
Category Archives: Weddings
Blasky Wedding
I’ve been so busy lately with shooting during the summer season that I haven’t had the chance to update the blog. It’s been a couple weeks already since Kristi and Michael came from Las Vegas to East Lansing to get married at the MSU Alumni Chapel. The wedding couple were reporters who work at the...
More from Claudia at Phatpuppy
Claudia does it again. She has been using some of my photographs as the basis for her art. We have only been working together for a week and so far she’s edited four photos and had one accepted for the cover of a new novel. How cool is that?? Both of these are photographic art...
Samantha Harris Studio Shoot.
My good friend and fellow wedding vendor, Samantha Harris, is graduating from Michigan State University College of Communication Arts and Sciences soon and is starting a business as a wedding videographer. She asked if I could help her with profile photos for her Timeless Media Productions website. Samantha is very creative and we always have...
Roy and Dana Stein wedding
I shot a wedding last Wednesday for Dana and Roy at the Garland Lodge and Resort in Lewiston Michigan. Dana is my new step-sister. Her mother is married to my dad. I have known Dana ever since she was a baby so it’s a joy to capture her wedding. Our families lived next door to...
Matt and Kristie Pahl’s Northern Michigan Wedding
Kristie is a emergency room nurse and Matt is an engineer. They met in Northern Michigan and have been together for the past six years. They finally decided to get married and chose Greystone Mansion near Honor, Michigan. Kristie originally wanted the wedding at the beach in Frankfort but changed her plans because of the...
Dad and Sue’s Wedding Slideshow.
My father, who is in his mid-seventies, was married recently to Sue Taggart, a woman who was our next-door neighbor when I was growing up. Sues’ son, Brent, was my best friend and Sue was like a second mother. Our families often went on camping trips together. We sometimes camped at the Interlochen State Park....
Fun with Photoshop Actions.
I downloaded a fun action today from Deke McClelland’s website. http://www.deke.com. Photoshop actions are a set of instructions that you can load onto a photograph to automate an effect. The water droplet effect turned out pretty good. It was completely automated in Photoshop. This is a photo of Meg Howard that I took last year...