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A Bread Garden Events at Plaza Towers Collaboration

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Weddings

When Christa from Bread Garden Events reached out to me a month ago to see if I’d be interested in doing a styled shoot, I was immediately all in! Her vision for the updated event space was to showcase the amazing light that ballroom gets as well as the fabulous roof terrace. I’ve photographed weddings […]

Jennie & Ryan

A Downtown Iowa City Spring Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They met during the pandemic; online first, but then one night, she decided to go into the bar where he works and ended up sitting with him all night. “Bars had just reopened, but no one was in Iowa City so they were pretty slow. I came into Sports Column one night with my good […]

Samantha & John

A Fossil Gorge Spring Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They first met in high school when they swam for the YMCA swim team, but it wasn’t until the summer after graduation that they got to know each other better (she was a lifeguard and he was a pool manager–“scandalous, I know!”) and had their first date. “I couldn’t believe she joined me because I […]

The Ohloff Family

A Downtown Iowa City Spring Family Shoot

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Family & Kids

I’d have to go back and calculate, but I think I’ve had the pleasure of seeing the Ohloff family almost every year since I first met them back when the girls were little. I have had the pleasure of photographing Elizabeth and Seth’s engagement, wedding, and multiple family sessions since then (here, here, here, here, […]

Lindsey & Jeremy

A Downtown Iowa City Spring Maternity Shoot

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Family & Kids

Just two weeks shy of their one year anniversary, we got together on a beautiful spring morning for some photos, this time celebrating the upcoming arrival of their baby! Last year this time, they were moving into their house (yes, right before their wedding! Lindsey does take credit for that, but I support her reasoning; […]

Kesha & Calvary

A Downtown Iowa City Spring Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They first met in junior high. Seventh grade band class, to be exact. Their first date was years later, “sometime freshman year of college.” Neither of them can remember it. Calvary said, “I feel like it was a simply dinner and a movie, however, after a while, we became unsure what we actually did.” So […]

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