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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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iowa city family: mason

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Photography

I was so excited to shoot this family because they are beautiful and energetic, plus, Mom informed me that her youngest was a “ham” in front of the camera.  That’s a photographer’s magic words.  Sprinkle that fairy dust, she really is a ham and I was loving every minute of it.  Never has a three-year-old […]

knocking on doors late at night

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Personal

The clock is chasing midnight and here I sit, still staring at the glowing computer screen.  My eyes are tired, but my mind is just bumbling along like there’s no tomorrow when, in fact, there will be soon. I have nothing profound to say–I don’t know if I could speak profoundly at this hour anyway–but […]

four sisters

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Personal

“Isn’t it amazing that we’re all here?  All four of us sisters together,” my Great-Aunt Edna kept saying.  “Four brothers and four sisters and we only have one brother left, but all four of us girls are here.” Truly remarkable was that all four sisters were in the same room today when I stopped by […]

Carly & Dustin

A Riverside Iowa Fall Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

What a perfect afternoon for a photo shoot!  I am so excited to work with this lovely couple again at their wedding in December.  They were so easy to work with and so much fun (and isn’t she gorgeous, by the way?).  I loved the shots so much that I couldn’t wait to edit a […]

win-win

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Personal

It was an early Saturday for me.  I rarely see anything before 9:30 on the clock on Saturdays, but this morning I woke up at 8:35. Maybe it was excitement? I have had this little plan in my head for a week now.  A patient at work brought in some donuts from the Tipton Bakery […]

the mexican turtle

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Personal

The little Mexican turtle shines his bright, exotic shell on our bookshelf, bobbing his head as if agreeing with everything he overhears in our house.  Except sometimes, sometimes he turns away from us and face the wall.  Then we know. When were in premarital counseling, we were told this true story about another couple.   […]

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