I absolutely love-love shooting around the Old Capitol & Pentacrest area in Iowa City. There is so much history right here in our city and the architectural lines reflects that. Almost always, sessions there are with couples simply because of the hassle of parking and walking with kids. But Shamus trusted my ideas (and I […]

The moment she saw him, she started asking around about him. “I had joined roller derby the summer before and it was the first game that two of the people I started with were playing in. I was setting up the merch booth and this guy walked in wearing black jeans, a black tee, and […]

They met at Iowa State University in 2019 at college orientation. “Our major was pretty small so there were only two other students there that day,” Emma recalled. “I thought he was very cute so I was excited when we then became lab partners our first semester of college.” Matt said their first date was […]

It was a very humid morning, but you wouldn’t know by the looks of Mary Kate and West (and Gus)! They were open to ideas for location and I’ve been dying to use this ivy wall (because of its location, it can only be used at very specific times) so we did some ivy wall […]

It was an enthusiastic “yes,” but prior to that, Jacob had been working really hard to set up this surprise. He contacted me back in May to see if I would be available to photograph his proposal to his girlfriend, Anna. They met at Iowa and he was thinking of proposal in front of the […]

It’s been nine years since I photographed Stephanie and Sam’s wedding day and I still remember how much fun we had that day (and how hot it was!). In the nine years since, they’ve grown to a family of six and moved multiple times around the country. They knew they would be in Iowa this […]