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Winter special!

Don’t forget! Our winter special continues thru March 31, 2010! Book any package and receive your choice of a FREE guest sign-in book or 20×24 signature print. For more info contact our office at 440-843-4554 or fill out the contact form on our website. (New contracts only).

Amie & Trevor’s engagement session

Clevelanders are rugged people and Amie & Trevor are no exception. Last Saturday was a very cold, windy and snowy day… “perfect” weather for an engagement session.

We went to Baldwin Wallace College for their session. The beautiful architecture of the old buildings on campus provided a great backdrop. Due to the cold the session was a little shorter than normal, but that didn’t stop Amie and Trevor from taking their coats off for a couple photos. Like I said, they’re Clevelanders.

My picks below.

Katy & Matt – January 9, 2010

It was a very cold but sunny day for Katy and Matt’s wedding at Parkside Church. I was really excited to shoot this one because they are such a great, fun couple.

Katy and Matt had a beautiful ceremony. After some formals at the church we headed to The Bertram Inn for the reception, (one of our favorite venues). The Art Company Orchestra provided some great entertainment for the evening. Before I left we took a couple photos out doors. It was bitterly cold but Matt and Katy were troopers!

Here are some of my picks from the day.

Christina & Jason’s engagement session in NYC

After an extremely busy 2009 I finally have some time to devote to the blog. Thank goodness!

Back in September Natalie and I went to New York City for our anniversary and while we were there I had the opportunity to photograph Christina and Jason’s engagement session. Christina and Jason are both in the entertainment industry. They met while working for Disney and Christina is currently a member of the famous Radio City Rockettes.

We had a perfect September day for their session. We started out in Central Park and then headed down West 72nd Street for some more urban shots. Christina and Jason were a great couple to work with and helped make our trip to NYC that much more memorable!

Here are a few favs from the session.

No news really is good news

Wow! September and October have been insane for us. Besides the fact that over one-third of our weddings are in these two months we’ve had bridal shows, engagement sessions (including one at Central Park in NYC!), family portraits and high school senior sessions. Considering we’re in a down economy we are definitely not complaining though.

As a result our poor blog has not seen a real update in quite awhile. For those who check here on a regular basis for updates, thanks for your patience! New stuff is coming soon.

Adam’s senior portrait session

Adam is a senior at North Olmsted High School and his Mom Liz has been our kids’ preschool teacher since we’ve moved to Berea. So I was really looking forward to this session.

We started in the studio for some headshots and formals and then headed to downtown Olmsted Falls. Adam is really active in marching band so we definitely wanted to get some pics with his trombone. We had a lot of fun and got some really great images too. Thanks Adam!

The cobbler’s kids get some new shoes.

It was a very long time coming but I finally took some new photos (in our soon to be “officially” open new studio!) of the kids Monday night. Since we knew how difficult it would be to get all six kids to sit together cooperate and smile we decided to do head shots and then put them in a composite. Natalie had the vision for this before we even started shooting. The print will 40×20 when it’s completed and will be displayed in our office.

For those of you who don’t know are children are from left to right: Abbi (12 yrs), Alex (10 yrs), Noah (7 yrs), Julia (5 yrs), Anna (2 yrs( and Ian (1 yr).

Katy & Matt’s enagement session

I will be photographing Katy & Matt’s wedding this January so the warm summer evening at Huntington Beach was quite a contrast to the winter wedding they (and I) are looking forward to. It was a perfect summer evening for photographs and Katy & Matt made it way too easy to get great shots. They have such strong chemistry and they’re both very comfortable in front of the camera.

Here are a few of my picks from their session.

Danielle & Seth – July 4, 2009

I had a great time photographing Danielle and Seth’s wedding. They were so fun & easygoing. We had a great time taking photos!

I started at Danielle’s parent’s home where she got ready. Once we finished up there we were off to St. Basil the Great in Brecksville for the ceremony. Afterwards we headed off to University Circle for photos around the lagoon at The Cleveland Museum of Art. The sky was perfectly overcast and provided beautiful, soft light for their photos.

The reception was held at Ridge Manor Party Center in Brooklyn. After a great meal and plenty of dancing we ended the evening with a few photos with some sparklers in honor of Independence Day.

Here are some of my favs from the day.