friday, august twenty-ninth, two-thousand and fourteen

Amid my speed-editing, I finally finished a batch of photos taken at a friends cabin in June. We picked up and escaped to northern Minnesota to spend a week group reading books, storm-swimming and baking. Click the thumbnails below to enlarge. 

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friday, august twenty-second, two-thousand and fourteen

above are a few photos that i've looked through from a recent work (and pleasure!) trip to the east coast. My boyfriend and I took a week off to travel to my hometown in Vermont and visit with family on Cape Cod, before a wedding I photographed in the area. Here's a teaser:

Thank you to Sara and Ben Canavan for being amazing clients and giving me a reason to see some of my east coast family! More photos of their lovely Cape wedding to come. 

saturday, august second, two-thousand and fourteen

It's been a busy week of shoots, editing, conspiring and goofing off. First, here is a teaser from a new group consisting of locals The Idle Hands' previous members. So far details are TBA. We scoped out good highway overpasses and had some fun.

Amazing photographer and good friend Crystal Liepa and I got together to work on an album cover that vibed with the likes of Billy Vaughn, Herb Alpert and other swingers of the 50's. We tried to mimic their obsession with using gussied up ladies to adorn their record covers like these:

Crystal and I experimented with different set-ups and I got some pretty lovely photos of her. Here are a few outtakes. 

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I got a lovely email this week from awesome public artist Marcus Young. He is currently Artist-in-Residence for the city of Saint Paul and I photographed one of his projects, "Don't You Feel It Too?" a couple of years ago. This public dance piece is performed by participants who bring their own headphones and ipod. 

Marcus is leading another dance in celebration of a year of marriage equality in Minnesota! You can check the details HERE along with a couple of my photos. 

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Nina Kolar

My busy week wrapped up another yoga job! My lovely roommate Nina Kolar teaches a FREE yoga class at the Patagonia store on Grand Ave in St. Paul on Tuesdays and I was asked to photograph their session. They have a lovely side-patio that is cozy and secluded. They provide yoga mats and rugs and Nina teaches her class for every level.  Here are a couple of photos

They can fit upwards of 50+ people on their patio. Yoga starts at 7pm on Tuesdays-- swing by next week. 

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And in honor of their single release, here is Tiny Deaths with, "The Words." featuring a photo from our promotional session

single artwork: zoe prinds-flash

tuesday, july twenty-second, two-thousand and fourteen

Welcome to the new website! This refresh has been a long time coming. My initial goal in recreating my website were to add more of an emphasis on the commission side of my photography business (Yes! BUSINESS! I am an official LLC as of April!) I have been marketing myself as a wedding and portrait photographer on other fronts and it has become time to follow suit with this website as well.

Here you can find updates and teasers of shoots that i've done as well as anything newsworthy that may happen on the business side of things. I will be linking to projects I'm working on and groups I'm working with. Sprinkled in these posts will be some of the more personal photos that come out of my camera each week as well. So, without further ado, this is what I've been up to!

Two weeks ago, mega-babe and talented photographer friend Crystal Liepa and I took a day trip to the flooded portion of the Minnehaha Creek.

Another friend joined us later and we ended up having the loveliest photoshoot. The water was pushing out and over trees, the outlying field, and even passing over the concrete walking paths that border the creek. We found thousands of night crawlers and even saw a trout jump. 

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Making as much use as possible of the flooded lakes, I also shot some promotional photographs for a new band formed from members of The Idle Hands. This time at night, I was able to use some cool lighting set-ups. Stay 'tooned for their debut. 

I am still working on photos from a recent cabin trip, so here are a couple of photos from a day trip to wisconsin that I took this weekend

And tradition tends to stick. Like the last blog, I will be leaving you with a song-- in honor of her amazing performance at First Avenue last week here is Sharon Van Etten from her latest outstanding record. 

                                                            Sharon Van Etten / Break Me