Jake & His Cape

My little guy, Jake, is four and half years old. He is my shadow. Following me around all day. Copying everything I do. Wanting to be just like me. Today I found him sitting on the floor staring at my camera. When I walked into the room he quickly put on his pouty lip look and said, “I just WISH I could have a picture of me and my batman [...]

 

Africa. Land of JOY.

Africa. It’s like my second home. I miss it when I’m not there and I feel at home when I’m there. While I am a Denver wedding photographer most of the year, I also spend a great deal of my time photographing in the extremely rural villages of Uganda, Africa. Places where they have never seen someone like me. Where there is no electricity. No flushing toilets. No television. It’s [...]

 

Ask The Camera Chick: How do you decide what to photograph?

For this week’s Ask The Camera Chick question I will be answering: “How do you decide what to photograph?” When I am on the job as a Denver wedding photographer I try to capture the events of the wedding as if I were going to put the images into a story book. I want the photographs to tell the story of the day without needing to add words. I want [...]

 

Ask The Camera Chick: Can you really do ANYTHING in Photoshop?

For our very first Ask The Camera Chick question I decided to start with the most common question that I am asked: Can you really do ANYTHING in Photoshop? For me, as a Denver wedding photographer, Photoshop is a tool that I use to take good images and make them great images. After a photography session you’ll find me zipping back to my computer to download all the images from [...]

 

Ask The Camera Chick: The Reveal.

For those who are my friends on Facebook, you saw the hilarious video that I posted a few days ago. It was a spoof video about all the funny things that people say to photographers and it was 100% accurate! I watched it at least a dozen times and laughed so hard that tears were rolling down my cheeks. A few of my photography colleagues watched it and said they [...]

 

Welcome to my NEW blog!

Welcome to my NEW photography blog! I am very excited to begin blogging on this new blog so that I can share my most recent work, share tips & tricks and announce my latest photography news. I have been photographing wedding for many years in Iowa. However, after my husband finished dental school and his orthodontic residency at The University of Iowa we moved across the country and began our [...]