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EMILY CRALL BLOG

I'm Emily and I'm so happy you're here! This blog is a journal about my life and my latest work. Stay a while and say hello!

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the bullet list

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Personal

New Year’s always brings with it resolutions. And, honestly, I’m kind of tired of resolutions. It’s too much pressure. Too many check-lists in an already full schedule of to-dos. So this year, I opted out completely. Or, well, I was going to opt out, but I was coerced into making a fitness goal for this year. So, pending […]

wedding photographs in review: 2012

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Weddings

Without a doubt, 2012 brought some of my favorites weddings…and some of my favorite people. As an artist, I have to enter each wedding day with a fresh perspective. While it may be another wedding weekend on the books for me, it’s the most important day for two people and I cannot–will not–take that lightly. […]

how i make my personal yearbooks

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Personal

For the past several years, I have made a top effort to capture our own personal memories and catalog our lives; not just for us, but for our someday-children and grandchildren. It’s important to me to preserve the normal moments in life, not just the vacations or the funny stories, but the normal things that […]

first snow

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Personal

The 50-mile-an-hour winds and 0 mile visibility of snow yesterday, otherwise termed the “snowpocalypse”, didn’t quite leave the 10 inches we were expecting.

julianna + brandon // keota, iowa wedding photography

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Personal

It happened around Thanksgiving. They had been renovating their new generational home (it was her grandparents’ home) and had recently moved in when Brandon proposed to Julianna. They had been together for 10 years so it was really no surprise, but it had the culmination of all things meaningful to them: being together and having the […]

engagement photographs in review: 2012

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Photography

After every engagement session, I start another countdown. I look at the calendar and think, seriously, I have to wait that long until I get to photograph them again? Because I love–no, adore–my bridal couples! One of things I love most is the time we get to spend taking engagement photos. Engagement photos give all […]

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