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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, […]

Perrin : Five Years

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Happy birthday, my darling girl. It seems impossible. My teeny, tiny 6 pound infant is overflowing with personality and feelings and laughter and jokes and imagination. You are shy and feisty and silly and sweet. You are so excited to be five years old and even more excited that you get to go to kindergarten […]

The Nepola Family

A Voxman Music Hall Fall Family Shoot

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Family & Kids

Ali was a bridesmaid in a wedding I photographed last year and she reached out to me a couple of weeks ago to see if there was any chance I’d have time to do a family photo session while she and her family were in Iowa over Thanksgiving. Between their schedule and mine, there was […]

The Bloomfield Family

A Kent Park Fall Extended Family Shoot

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Family & Kids

The last time I got to photograph the Bloomfield family, they were a bit smaller in number, and it is always so fun to see how time change and the kids keep growing. I first met this group at Elisabeth and Seth’s wedding. We had a bit of a last minute rescheduling since the weather […]

The Penick Family

A Kent Park Fall Family Shoot

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Family & Kids

The last time I got to photograph the Penick family was when Colby was still on the inside; just weeks from her birth. It has been so much fun seeing Cortney and Christian grow their family!! I’ve been with them since their engagement! They got married in 2016 and then I got to photograph them […]

The Larew Smith Family

A Kent Park Fall Family Shoot

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Family & Kids

If you’ve spent any amount of time around my blog, you know I absolutely adore Trent and Jean Louise. I first met them back in…2021 (is that true? It feels like so much longer ago than that!) for their engagement session and it was absolutely amazing. So when their wedding came later that year, it […]

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