Meeting new people is an art form in and of itself. Obviously one starts with “Hello,” but then the flow of conversation could instantly take a thousand different turns. Do you talk about who you are, or do you ask them questions about themselves? You wonder, “Am I overthinking this?” only to realize that you […]

The zoom call was coming to a close, and after Ali and Zach had shared their story with us, they told us they had one special request: “We have this dream of hiking up to one of our favorite date spots and taking pictures there. We know we would be in our wedding clothes, but […]

Connections are funny things. At any given moment, you could be impacting anyone by your words and actions, even if you aren’t aware of it. Last summer, we spent the day photographing Anna and Spencer’s wedding near Grand Rapids; and as we left their reception, we knew that the chances of seeing them would probably […]

You never know where life is going to take you. We live in a world where just a few hundred years ago, people would spend their entire lives only traveling 30-40 miles away from where they were born. But today, a short drive can take you to brand new places you have never seen or […]

So you probably weren’t expecting this blog coming from wedding and portrait photographers…but here we are! Life has a funny way of bringing opportunities into your life when you don’t even realize what the opportunity is yet. Sometimes, you have to take a step of faith in order to find out what is in the […]

They say that opposites attract. We’ve all heard the stories about how two people come together; one is crazy while the other is quiet, one is adventurous while the other is a homebody. And in all honesty, that tends to be the norm; two people coming together who are very different from each other but […]

As the snow blankets the ground around our home, we can’t help but find ourselves thinking back to the summer of 2021. We still think back to our special South Haven beach where sand was warm between our toes and the water was just the perfect temperature for having fun and cooling off. It’s so […]

It’s been over two months since we shot this session and we have been patiently (ok, not so patiently) waiting for the week that we can finally share Sophie’s senior photo shoot with you! We had gotten to know Sophie’s family quite well in 2021, especially since we were able to capture her sister and […]

Tears: one of the clearest signs that a moment is full of emotion. Whether joy or sadness, or a mixture of the two, we all tend to feel the weight of a moment when we see someone begin to tear up. Over the past year, we have seen our fair share of tears shed all […]

As Alyssa and Zach hopped out of their car, we couldn’t help but smile as we remembered that just a few weeks earlier, we were hiding behind some sand dunes down in St. Joe, Michigan as Zach got down on one knee to propose to his soon-to-be fiance! Our evening with them in St. Joe […]