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Tayler & Travis

A Linn County Fairground Summer Wedding

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Weddings

Back at their winter engagement shoot, with temperatures in the teens (we almost hit 20°F that day!), we knew it would be much warmer at their summer wedding. We weren’t wrong. The heat index this past Saturday hit 110°F leaving us a solid 90° difference between their engagement session and their wedding. These two know […]

Mikaela & Sam

A Hyatt Coralville Summer Wedding

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There is a theory that throughout our lives we will only truly fall in love three times, at three different stages of life, each time serving three very different purposes. This is known as the Three Love Theory. The first love is the one-dimensional love. It is all-consuming; it’s our introduction to the feeling itself, the […]

Iowa City Mural Guide

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Personal

Back in the summer of 2019, when Perrin was still tiny, we started a fun, informal mural hunt in downtown Iowa City. There were several murals at that time, but honestly, there are so many more now! So we put the remaining murals on our summer bucket list and earlier this week, we visited the […]

Yejin & Vivek

A Bella Sala Indian Korean Summer Wedding

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Weddings

It was the most beautiful weekend at Bella Sala celebrating Yejin and Vivek’s wedding. Do you remember their engagement story? They met last November in Florida, where he lives and she was attending a medical conference. Vivek knew immediately, “on the first date”, that Yejin was the one. He was so certain, in fact, that […]

The Whitmore Family

A Hancher Summer Family Shoot

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Family & Kids

Well, this was super fun!! I photographed Sarah & Ian’s wedding back in 2015 and then the entire Whitmore family when Wes was just a few months old. Now Sarah is expected their second (a girl!) and she reached out asking if I could do some photos of them. Of course! Wes was very unsure […]

Rachel & David

A Walker Homestead Spring Wedding

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The sky was blue, the clouds puffy and white, the sun shone brightly on the ground. The humidity was so thick, you could almost see it in the air. The ceremony would be outside in full sun so my goal for photos was to keep people as comfortable as possible outdoors and find some shade. […]

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