It was COLD – 7 degrees – but Alissa and Dan were troopers and froze for their fun engagement session at the super awesome Packard Proving Grounds! (How awesome are they? Donna, one of the grounds-workers, was literally warming Alissa between takes!) The temperature outside didn’t matter though, as they warmed each other with their...
I met Erin and Jonny about 2 years ago, as our kids went to the same pre-school, and we became friends on the playground even more than our kids themselves were! So when Erin asked me to photograph their wedding, I was incredibly honored – being able to capture someone’s wedding is always a little...
It was a very special day photographing the wedding of the wonderful Ron and Andy. Special because they were so obviously in love, special because it was their wedding day, but more than that – SPECIAL, because they were to be the first same-sex couple to be married in the Michigan Supreme Court, showing how...
Robin (a talented photographer who is also local to the area) and I were talking one day about how much fun cake smashes looked for kids, and inevitably the conversation turned to one of us mentioning “Why do kids get to have all the fun??” Since it was her birthday right around the time of the...
I’d always wanted to photograph a wedding at the amazing Detroit Institute of the Arts ( D.I.A ), so when Cynthia and Kenneth contacted me, I was overjoyed at the chance! The happy couple was more than willing to enjoy going all over the museum (as much as we were allowed to after-hours) and take...
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