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Thank you so much for stopping by. I am a photographer who loves to capture the real you by telling your story, showing your emotions, and having fun during the photo session. I am a wedding and portrait photographer who captures your life's story through a journalistic style.

Enjoy the blog! I try and update it often, so come back and visit. I hope you will comment, I love hearing from everyone!

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Wedding Albums

There are so many options out there for wedding album designs. My vision in creating a wedding album is timeless simplicity. I want to tell the wedding day story in an elegant piece of art. Below are some pictures of the wedding albums that are included with my wedding packages.

These albums are hand made by Priscilla Foster using the finest materials. The book is covered with silk, bound with ribbon, and followed by ivory archival pages separated by glassine interleaving to protect each image.

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Below is a wedding album recently designed for the Caitlin-Michael wedding. Each album typically includes 90-130 photographs from the wedding day. The album includes three different sizes of images; 4x6, 5x7, and 8x10. Every page is designed with the photographs that best tell the wedding story.

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I also design 8x10 page layouts to include more photographs from the wedding day. Below is an 8x10 layout of the first time the bride and groom see each other. There are typically 5-10 custom designed 8x10 layouts throughout the album.

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An 8x10 layout of all the ceremony details. I create the 8x10 layouts to include more photos from the wedding day.

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Priscilla Foster also hand makes baby albums. Same look with baby material. I am in the process of creating the first album and once it is finished I will post some images. I am going to include the baby albums in a "first year" package. Email me for details.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Kuehn Family

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What a fun family! I work with Kent and recently had the chance to get to know his wife, Marci, and girls, Dani and Miranda, better. I was asked to photograph Dani's reception earlier this July. They are so much fun and made the hour just fly by. We went down to River Front Park by the Yellowstone River, which is a beautiful place. It looked perfect driving into the parking lot, until I got out of the car; it was being overrun by mosquitoes. I have never seen so many mosquitoes in my life! If we were not trying to take a photo we were all moving to try and keep the mosquitoes off us. I took over 150 photos and around 50 of them were pictures of one person trying to swat away a mosquito. So coming home I wasn't sure what I was going to get for pictures, or if everything was going to be waving arms in the air.

I ended up getting some great pictures, and below are some of my favorites.

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Dani and Miranda are awesome. They had great ideas for some fun pictures, and they were so easy to work with. Don't they look like models?

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I haven't taken photos of a family with older kids in a long time. I thought this photo was fun.

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I think this one is my favorite.

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Thank you so much Marci for making the group come out to take some family pictures. I had a great time. Hopefully no one suffers from the bug bites too bad.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Jeff, Lisa & Family

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This family has a great time together and a love for Montana's great outdoors. They are always hiking, white water rafting, and enjoying what Montana has to offer. The location they selected was perfect and together they had so much fun. Below are just a few of my favorites.

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Such a cute couple.

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These boys have fun together, always exploring.

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This photo is way too cute. Yes mom asked them to dress up and I think the outfits are perfect. Here comes the next sequel to Indiana Jones.

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Thank you so much for calling and letting me capture your family having fun. I enjoyed meeting you all.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Kacee & Dani

What a sweet couple. I am shocked what this bride and groom put together in six weeks with the help of family and friends. They found a reception site, a beautiful dress, sent invitations out, had flowers, a cake, and a great dinner. Their family and friends came from all over to help celebrate their marriage. Below are just a few of my favorite pictures from the afternoon.

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Thanks for asking me to be a part of your day. Congratulations and have a wonderful time in Washington.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Isaac

My baby is 1 year old, and this year has just flown by. I can not believe how much a child learns their first year, and how frustrating some days can be trying to teach them. Here is a picture of Isaac on day 1 in the hospital, so peaceful sleeping.

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Here is Isaac for 1 year pictures. Yes he now likes to throw rocks. Man are we in trouble. . .

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He started walking at 10 months old and this photo shoot was crazy to try and get him to sit. I needed help, lots of help, and never got a great picture of him smiling outside. But I did get a great picture of the tantrums we get now. They are fun. My poor nephew, just sitting there all ready to smile with his cousin, and this is what I got. Yes the feet are kicking.

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So outside I didn't have any luck, maybe next month. Inside I did have some luck keeping him in front of the camera. Here is my sweet boy with his great smile and beautiful blue eyes. I wish I could see his smile all the time.

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Something fun to do at a year old portrait session is to bring in a cake and at the end of the session let the baby destroy it. I spent quite some time making this cute cake. He did not eat one bite of it (he doesn't like sweets) but he did end up destroying the cake. He had a lot of fun getting all sticky, which ended in bath time.

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Happy First Birthday!

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Caitlin - Michael

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What a fun wedding, beautiful day, and the largest wedding party I have seen in a long time. They would do anything, so we got some great photos. The day started out at the salon where all the girls were putting on makeup, fixing their hair, visiting, and having a great time.

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Caitlin looked gorgeous and she has such a wonderful personality. It was fun to see her meet Michael for the first time.

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We took some wonderful photos all over the campus of Rocky.

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What a large wedding party. They were a lot of fun.

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All the beautiful details. I loved this cake.

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This photo was way too cute. Good thing it is finally the wedding day.

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Thank you so much for letting me be a part of your wedding day. Congratulations.