A friend of mine that I went to college with just launched his new website Mauhaus.  Mike builds custom rocking chairs that are absolutely beautiful.  If you are looking for a rocker that your children will fight over after you are gone, give Mike a call.  Besides doing beautiful woodworking he is a super nice guy as well.

Here are few photos from Saturday’s wedding.  It was a perfect day, beautiful weather and a fabulous couple.  The service was in a small town nearby and the reception at the Grand Meridian in Appleton.

Almost GO time

No tears yet

The church was at capacity.  They had guests in the balcony and they had to bring up folding chairs from the basement.

The Jump

Lensbaby in action

A few weeks ago I did a wedding at Whistling Straits golf course.  It is absolutely breath taking place for a wedding.  The weather was perfect and I was  working with a great couple.  I finally have some images ready to post.  It has been hectic for me the past few weeks, but it is that time of year.

Some details from the day

I love to capture people smiling and laughing,  the real person comes out and it is always wonderful.  The groom was so easy for this, his smile and laugh were contagious, you can not help but smile as well.

They had the band Nightlife for the evening and they were out of this world.  If you are looking for a band for your wedding check them out.  They sounded great.

For about the past 5 years I have photographed the Xavier High School boys football team.  The photos are used to create a poster with the game schedule on it.  This year a farm was chosen as the background.  This farm I drive by all the time and I  have always wanted to shoot there.  It is owned by 3 brothers and as I found out the farm will be celebrating 100 years next year.  I have always like the farm because it is surrounded by McMansions and development, but the brothers still do their thing.  I think it’s great.

While we were waiting for the team to show up I photographed one of the tractors and then the 3 brothers.  I was was thinking that B+W would be great for the photos.

I really really like them in B+W, but I then started playing with them in color, you have to explore all options.

So now I am not sure because I really really like them in color as well.  So feel free to comment on which you like better, maybe we can see which is the winner.

Here are some behind the scenes photo of the shoot.  I can’t show you the final team photo yet, you will have to wait until the posters come out.

The behind the scene photos are from Jim Weiland.  I work with him at Image Studios

Yes I know it has been a while since I have posted.  My bad.  I will try to get better, but let’s not hold me to it.

I had a outdoor wedding today, Sunday, and it was unbelievably hot and humid.  Somewhere around 90 with humidity a little higher I think.  Any way I had a great couple and we had a good time.  Here is one of my favorite photos of the day.  I will have more to show in a little bit

On other news I just updated my blog software so there may be a few little glitches.  the only one I noticed is on older posts there is an A with a funny symbol above it after each sentence.  Looks like I could change it but I will leave it for now.