There’s something especially wonderful about spring in Iowa. The long, cold winter finally gives way to the chirping of birds and a landscape that starts to wake in a riot of color. We hit those early spring colors with the blooming crab apple trees downtown and the tulip field at Wilson’s Orchard and all of […]

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 […]

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 […]

They met online because she was bored and downloaded the dating app as a joke. She had set the radius to 100 miles and that’s exactly how far apart their addresses were. “I was alone in my dorm room when I saw someone had liked my profile. I looked through his pictures and saw one […]

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 […]

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 […]