They’ve been together for a long time–since they were young highschoolers–and if you’ve spent any amount of time with them, it’s easy to pick up on their deep level of friendship and love for each other. They first spotted each other when she was a freshman, he a sophomore. “I was quite smitten with him […]

The whole day we all kept commenting about the weather and how we couldn’t have gotten anything better had we tried. The weekend before had been unusually cold with winds and rain, but on Saturday, the sun shone bright and the breeze brought welcome cooling. It was the kind of weather where you wanted to […]

They met during the summer at Texas Roadhouse (home of the best rolls & butter ever!). “She trained me, which is probably not something she’ll want to take credit for considering I was easily the worst server of all time,” Griffin said. “After falling out of touch for many years, we reconnected via Facebook with her […]

It was the summer of 2010. They were both camp counselors at an overnight youth camp. “I had gotten there a day early and was sitting in the camp office when I first saw him,” she said. They started dating July 11th. “I consider the day before we started dating as our first real date, […]

My typical photographic style is airy and bright and I schedule engagement sessions and portrait times on wedding days to be when the light is golden and glorious. So when I had to submit an assignment for The International Academy of Wedding Photographers that showed the use of “natural light” (no flash) after the sun had […]

I had misread the forecast and was expecting sunny-with-60-degree weather. Unfortunately, I was a day off and we were hit with overcast, gray skies and a chilly breeze. Thankfully, when I met Anne & Jim for their downtown Davenport engagement session, we managed to find some warmth indoors while still getting natural, outdoor light. They also straight-up […]