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Lauren & Thomas

A Copper Creek Ridge Summer Wedding

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Weddings

A few days shy of exactly two years ago, I met Lauren when I photographed her sister’s wedding. A year ago, I got an email from Lauren, asking if I would be available for her own wedding: “We literally got engaged yesterday and nothing is even close to set yet. We’d love to make next […]

Austin

A Kent Park Fall Liberty High Senior Shoot

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Senior

Austin is in his senior year of high school at Liberty High. He is smart and outgoing, involved in cross country and show choir and hoping to study aerospace engineering in college. He enjoys playing video games, working out, running, and playing frisbee. He wanted his senior photos at Kent Park and had picked out […]

The White Family

A Kent Park Family Painting Shoot

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Family & Kids

The first time I met Lincoln and Josh was over 4 years ago and Lincoln was pregnant with their first. They now have two children with a third on the way! Lincoln reached out to me a few weeks ago with an idea for a painting-in-the-forest style of shoot. She worked really hard to get […]

Maddie & Justin

A Walker Homestead Summer Wedding

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Weddings

The forecast said “abundant sun” and it did not lie, haha. While the temperatures were warm in the mid-80s (and no clouds!), we were thankful it was cooler than a few days before when the heat index was well over 100 degrees. We also utilized as much shade as we could for pictures to keep […]

The Smith Family

A Kent Park Summer Family Shoot

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Family & Kids

We had a sweltering heat wave for the Smith family’s pictures, but we scheduled them for the morning which helped a lot. As is the case with my own kids, taking pictures in the morning also helps a lot with kids’ attitudes and Owen and Piper did so good! Remember Piper’s amazing short hair from […]

Xiaoni & Jung

An Iowa City Summer Anniversary Shoot

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Anniversary

There are some weddings that a photographer just never gets over. Even years later, we look back with such fondness and delight at how the day unfolded. Xiaoni and Jung’s wedding seven years ago is one of those for me. So when Xiaoni reached out for an anniversary session, I was so thrilled to see […]

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