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Best of 2009
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Jessie & Scott’s Engagement Guestbook
Thursday, May 21st, 2009We received Jessie and Scott’s “Story of Our Love” engagement guestbook album yesterday – just in time for them to pick it up. The “Big Day” is tomorrow! Jessie has put a lot of work into planning and designing the details of the wedding. I can’t wait to see the results of all her hard work.
The cover of the guestbook album is padded (a new feature) and printed on canvas
Here are the pages of the album…
(cover)
(introduction)
(Jessie told us this black and white image of them kissing is her favorite image)
There were so many images that we created from their Story of Our Love sessions, but didn’t have room for in the album since we had to leave plenty of whitespace for people to sign on.
Jessie and Scott: Story of Our Love Session 2 (Part 2)
Sunday, April 26th, 2009Some of you may remember Jessie and Scott’s Des Moines Engagement Session last Fall. They had met while attending high school in Des Moines then went on to the University of Iowa for college. They are presently living in Iowa City. Since both Iowa City and Des Moines are important places to their love story, Kevin and I wanted to make sure to photograph them in the locations that were most special to them.
Jessie loved this photo – it was her vision for a sunset portrait, we made it happen!
I love this sweet moment between the two of them.
Jessie and Scott backlit by a streetlight with cherry blossoms in the background (created near the Pentacrest)
This is Kevin’s favorite image created for Jessie and Scott’s guestbook (its going to look sweet! We’ll post the pages after they’re finished.)
We have really enjoyed getting to know Jessie and Scott the past several months. They are easy going, creative and fun to be around. Their wedding is less than a month away! We’re so excited.
It’s easier than ever to let us know what you think of our portraits. Please leave a comment. We love to hear your feedback. Your comments inspire new ideas for us. What is your favorite portrait from Jessie and Scott’s Story of Our Love Session?
Jessie and Scott: Story of Our Love Session 2 (Part 1)
Saturday, April 25th, 2009Here are some of our favorite photos from Jessie and Scott’s “Story of Our Love” engagement session in Iowa City.
Jessie, Scott, Tuck (chocolate lab), and Callie (yellow lab) at the University of Iowa canoe house.
(This one is Kindra’s personal favorite)
Jessie and Scott outside Kinnick Stadium.
We will be posting part 2 tomorrow… check back then for the rest.
Jessie & Scott: Engagement Skyscraper
Friday, February 6th, 2009
When we originally started offering “Skyscraper” portraits, we specifically had seniors in mind. Jessie and Scott liked the idea of a skycraper for some photos from their “Story of Our Love” engagement portraits so that they could have some photos of their dogs – Tuck in particular, since he’s a growing and quickly-changing puppy.
Through a twist of computer issues and less than wonderful planning in Photoshop, I ended up creating a new Skyscraper background design. You really have to see this up close to see the results, but I am loving how it came out. (Even though I know exactly how it will look while editing on the computer, It is always amazing to see the results when we get the photos back from our lab.)
As it turns out, the colors we selected for Jessie and Scott ended up perfectly matching our curtains – where we have our sample skyscraper portrait normally hung. So… we may end up having to order a second of this wall portrait!
Scott and Jessie’s Story of our Love Post 3
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
We found this cool alley in Valley Junction with a lot of good photo opportunities. Since it was November, they had lined the trees, with Christmas lights so it set a very romantic mood.
The Christmas lights and fire escape were great backgrounds. We probably could’ve spent half their session in this alley easily.
A moonlit walk down the alley. Thanks Jessie and Scott being so flexible with the bad weather and never complaining how cold it was. Hopefully it’ll be much nicer weather for your Spring session. We’re really looking forward to your next session. I think you’ve come up with a lot of great locations.
Scott and Jessie’s Story Of Our Love Post 2
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Another cute family photo from the dog park. We can’t wait to see how much little Tuck has grown when we photograph him again in the Spring for their Iowa City part of their session.
I love Jessie’s expression in this. You can tell how much she loves Scott in this one.
This one was taken in Valley Junction at a nice shop. Another cute, snuggly one of them. I love how relaxed Scott and Jessie are with each other.
Check back soon for some more portraits on Jessie and Scott!
Jessie and Scott’s Story of our Love Session Post 1
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
You’ll probably remember a couple of months ago that we posted a sneak preview from Jessie and Scott’s Fall Story of our Love session. With all the busyness with the holidays, we didn’t get a chance to meet with them until last weekend so here are some of the best from their session. Scott and Jessie love drinking coffee together so this was taken in a coffee shop. I love the expressions of them gazing at each other.
Here’s a photo of Jessie with Tuck and Callie while Scott went to fetch another collar for Callie. It was snowing while we were at the dog park but you’d never know it was that cold by the expression on Jessie’s face.
I love this one.
Here is Scott and Jessie’s favorite photo of the day because it shows their family. They decided when they announce their engagements in the papers that they’re going to use this one. We have a dog named Buddy so we love sharing cute pet stories with them.
We will be posting more portraits from their session within the next week so keep checking back!
Album Epoca Bridal Album
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
We just received the album from Doug and Molly’s wedding in Ames, Iowa.
Doug and Molly’s wedding was very special to us because of the memories involved with it. They had attended ISU together and we created some amazing portraits of them around campus. Our favorite from their wedding day was in front of the campanile. Also they were getting married at the church that they had attended while in college. Molly’s sister had also gotten married in this church and we took some portraits of her by this stained glass window that her sister also had gotten portraits taken in front of. We love to photograph these special moments in a couple’s life and this is a lot of the fun of photographing weddings.
As you can see, the pages lay flat and allows us to create one continuous page spread with no interruption of the images.
Here are the pages in the album.
Story of Our Love: Scott and Jessie
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
It seems to be a trend with us that the weather doesn’t cooperate with us for Story of Our Love engagement sessions (to the point of nearly calling it off). However, it also follows that the couples we work with have been very open-minded and we end up capturing some really amazing photographs for them.
Well, we didn’t break our streak with Scott and Jessie! As we drove to our first location, Raccoon River Park in West Des Moines (for the dog park), the first snowfall of the year was raging! But between Jessica, Scott and us, we were determined to capture some fun, intimate portraits.
The snowfall subsided after we arrived at Valley Junction. We found some great locations and backgrounds at Valley Junction – had it been warmer (and had more daylight), we could have spent hours photographing there!
As you can see, we still had some light snow on the ground at the dog park. We had a lot of fun with their dogs, Tucker (the Chocolate Lab puppy) and Callie (the Yellow Lab).
Scott and Jessie were high school sweethearts from Valley High School and now live in Iowa City, so we captured part of their session here in Des Moines and the other part will be in Iowa City in the Spring. We can’t wait to photograph them at their favorite hot spots around Iowa City.