Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Alanna & Joe's wedding week: Aug 4th-9th
Bridal Shower: Aug 5th, Stoughton WI
Rehearsal Dinner: Aug 7th, Nauvoo IL
Wedding: Aug 8th, Nauvoo IL
Reception: Aug 9th, Madison WI
I doubled as the Maid of Honor and the photographer! It was crazy!
Bridal Shower:
Road trip to Nauvoo:
Rehearsal Dinner:
Festival in the Park night before wedding:
Wedding Day, outside Nauvoo Temple:
Olbrich Gardens, Madison WI, reception day
Reception!
For more of their wedding, go here, their gallery is either Tenney or Alanna & Joe, I forget, but the password is nauvoo

SUMMary of my SUMMer: July '08 continued

Just a few more randoms...sorry not more interesting, I took hardly any personal photos during July.
Lola
Lexie & Lola
Straight shot out of the camera ... no edits ... the lake in my hometown.
Them again ;-)
Jacque & me at a photography job

Just being silly in between wedding shots!

Playing around with my 16-35 mm lens...


SUMMary of my SUMMer: July '08

July was consumed by my regular day care day job and photography clients, not much time for anything else....here is a taste....
Hanah - Senior Portraits

Natalie & Tom - Wedding



Nicole & Aaron - Wedding


Christy & Mike - Wedding

SUMMary of my SUMMer: June '08

My brother got married on June 7th. On June 8th, as he was preparing to leave for his Jamaica honeymoon, he landed himself in the hospital with kidney stones. Luckily, at the end of that scare, he was able to go on the honeymoon and they had a fabu time.
We experienced horrible flooding in WI in the early part of June. All the storms and rain actually started during the reception of my brother's wedding. Our biggest tourist spot in WI, Wisconsin Dells, got hit pretty hard, as the whole lake in that area disappeared bc the dams broke. This photo was taken about a half hour from my home town, about a week after all the flooding. The water was still THIS HIGH. And no, we didn't drive thru this. ;-)
A little symbolism for my photography business...not many of my clients purchase actual prints (mainly just the PhotoCDs), so this print order was fun to put together and package...
Lola, the puppy, digging up the yard....LOL. Wow she looks so small here looking back! She is gone now, moved back in with my brother and his wife about a week ago.
And onto the million weddings!
As I said, my brother's wedding was June 7th.
And my cousin Natalie's wedding was June 14th.
And my cousin Nick's wedding was June 21st....and this series of weddings was only the beginning of my "Summer of Weddings"....
Their great cake!
Aunt Christy, Me, & Sister in Law Shannon at Cousin Nick's wedding....
Now we are to the Country USA Festival ... June 28-29th in Oshkosh, WI. We had the VIP tickets this year. Some headliners: Lonestar, Sugarland, Dierks Bently, KENNY CHESNEY, Brooks and Dunn.
Kenny Chesney's show.....
This photo was taken from way far back before it started to rain.
After coming back from Kenny's show...which had been cancelled when it started to downpour.
Result next day from all that storming: MUDDING!

And after all the Country USA excitement, I got a new toy that I had been saving for MONTHS upon MONTHS for! Canon 16-35 mm f/2.8L lens!

Another shot of the pooch:

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

{ Sharing Some Favorites }

That I took last time I went to Mexico...
And it seems Mexico is in the plans for next year!
Yay!!