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Mary & Michael

A Downtown Iowa City Winter Engagement

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Engaged

I first met Mary several years ago when I photographed her sister Eva’s wedding. In the time since, Mary moved to India, where she directs a Hindi-Urdu language learning center in Delhi. Her business co-owner was the one who first mentioned Michael to her. Michael grew up on a game farm (“basically a house in […]

Amy & Jace

A Downtown Iowa City Winter Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They met at a mutual friend’s house during an Iowa v. Iowa State football game. “Jace swears I ignored him, but he was really just too nervous to talk to me,” said Amy. Their first official date was a few months later to a hockey game where Jace “thought I had made her angry or […]

Ashley & Jon

A Vander Veer Davenport Winter Maternity Shoot

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Family & Kids

I’m so excited for Ashley and Jon to welcome their first child into their home! I have been lucky enough to know them for several years now, since their engagement back in early 2021 and then their wedding that fall. We took pictures both times at Vander Veer Park in Davenport so it was a […]

Maddison & Aaron

A Bella Sala Winter Wedding

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Weddings

It was an overcast, but otherwise lovely day for Maddison and Aaron’s December wedding at Bella Sala. The temperatures weren’t bitterly cold like they had been leading up to the wedding and the lack of a breeze helped! I have been so excited for this wedding ever since I first heard from Maddison over a […]

The Walsh Family

A Kent Park Fall Family Shoot

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Family & Kids

The Walsh family is are not new around here and they somehow get cuter every time I see them. I first met them when Evie was brand new and it’s wild to me how quickly she has grown up! I photographed them again when she turned 1 and then, earlier this year, I did a […]

The Lopez Family

A Kent Park Fall Family Shoot

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Family & Kids

The last time I got to photograph Laura & Matt was at their wedding and it was so much fun to see them again, this time with their son, Theo! He is the happiest, smiliest child and the weather was so warm (much warmer than L&M’s engagement session, hah) for November. Enjoy some of my […]

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