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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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Catherine & Rob

A Lake MacBride Spring Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

She had just returned from France where she was getting hands-on practice with her foreign language studies. He was neck-deep in dental school. Neither of them were interested in a blind date. Finally, amid their mutual friend’s pleadings, they decided to meet in a group of friends, still refusing to be the subjects of a […]

blue skies shining on me

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Personal

After all my emotional upheaval from last week’s Easter flu, I finally feel like I’m on the upward slope. Or downward. Whichever is better. I’m feeling better. My head has started to clear and I can finally put thoughts together without getting a migraine. So, it was a rough one, big deal, right? Moving on… […]

Midori & Aaron

A Parkside Banquet Hall Wellman Iowa Wedding, Part 2

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Weddings

You already saw the first part of the day here, but now I get to show you everything that happened after the ceremony. Midori and Aaron had lined up an old Model T for their getaway from the ceremony to the reception. It was a classic beauty.

the bullet list

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Personal

It’s been a rough week. I cannot lie. I had the privilege of shooting such a beautiful wedding last weekend and then, almost immediately afterwards, came crashing down from that high with the Easter flu. I call it that because I’ve realized that every year around Easter, I get sick, even on the year when […]

the photo girls

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Photography

As we sat around the table, eating Casey’s pizza with our fingers, we tried to remember how it was that we all met. We pinned it back to PPI when we first all met each other, but the intricacies of who met whom when were much harder to figure out. Sarah and I had met […]

Midori & Aaron

An Upper Deer Creek Wellman Iowa Spring Wedding, Part 1

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Weddings

It would’ve been easy to give in to wedding day jitters and worry about the looming clouds overhead with impending rain coming. But not them. They surrounded themselves with family and friends and took on the day with both grace and elegance that went far beyond anyone’s expectations. Because they knew that this day was […]

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