{updates} life + work

I know, I know, I've been slacking, or so it seems! In truth, I've been super busy getting some albums finished up to send out for printing, doing some family shoots (which I need to blog!) and just living my life. It's been a crazy hectic couple of weeks and I will soon return to my normal semi-regular blogging, but there's still so much work to get done. So, I haven't forgotten about my loyal bloggers, but I have been working even though I have not added anything new here.

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Our brand spankin' new sample album

I got home from my long day at work today to find, well I knew it would be waiting since I'd been checking the tracking number all day, my Finao ONE sample album!!! It is utterly gorgeous and so substantial, you won't have to worry about hurting this baby, it's one tough cookie. The album, which is our new offering for 2009, is completely handmade, which we love, and is packaged completely green, the album is wrapped with handmade paper made from recycled pineapple leaves and wrapped in a ribbon from recycled mulberry leaves. Take a look:



Now, here are a couple of our albums with the new ONE on the bottom. The ONE is a 12x12 flushmount with metal armor cover, then we have an 8x8 Element in Lady Danger, and to top it off a 5x5 Upper Element in Bomber Jacket, which is such a gorgeous leather, I could just hold it all day!


Look at this gorgeous spine, and the pages are so thick and smooth.

This baby lays flat, yeah you heard me, flat! We've got a gutter running down the center, but we can also do creased prints, but you can barely even see the gutter. Now, you may remember some of these images, we shot one of my high school friend's wedding in August and they had the most amazing wedding so we just had to use their wedding for our sample.


I am so happy that we finally got our sample in, I love it, have I said that enough? Now I really can't wait to start designing these for our clients, I know you'll love them just as much as us!

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{real life} milller session - paquette park - portage, wi

So, last week I met up with my best friend, Karen, and her super cute family for their photo session. I love my job. She has two little ones and I did not believe it was them at first - they have grown up so fast and are getting so very big! Sylvie is walking and talking and Seth was adorable in his fancy black shirt and cowboy boots, I know Steve was jealous that Seth had cuter shoes! Haha. What sweeties. Karen even brought a little red wagon for the kids. Love!

Take a look at the teasers, let us know what you think, we had the perfect day for it, not too much sun and it wasn't cold hardly at all! And if these aren't cute enough, I've got a senior to blog and another session from Paquette Park from today!! Yay!

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{super awesome news!!} our website

It's been a labor of love, but the website is up and running!This is really exciting news for us, because now we feel official.

Check it out:
www.realphotographyrealpeople.com

Real photography. Real people.

That's our motto, and our clients have all been so awesome for us that we are incredibly excited to be able to get some of our fav images up on the website, although you know our favourites will always be changing!

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{in love} amanda + aaron, devil's lake, baraboo, wi

Two weeks ago we had the pleasure of meeting Amanda and Aaron for their Get to Know You Shoot, or engagement shoot if you want to be all formal, wink. Amanda and I had gone to high school together and we met Aaron at Mollie and Scott's wedding, so we aren't strangers, but it was really great getting to know Aaron.

We met up out at Devil's Lake, hoping to get some awesome fall foliage, but the leaves just seem to be changing and dropping, but I still think that we got some rockin' shots, and these two will be a blast at their wedding, I mean, the let us talk them into some crazy stuff, like getting next to a spider infested window, I'm fine, no spiders got me, I gave the rest of that area a wide berth after that. We hiked up and down, got some shots of these two down by the beach and they put on their Badger wear for us, how sweet is all that? Now be sure to check out Amanda's ring, it's her birthstone, and I love it! (maybe because mine is a sapphire, it's just something different, but I love a little bit of colour!)

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{updates} on life

I know I've been slacking!! I'm sorry, but I have been working on some major reconstruction this week. Rob put in a new window in our kitchen, which looks totally awesome, we each had vacation this week and did a ton of stuff around the house, and I know I have a ton of stuff to blog about, we had an engagement shoot almost two weeks ago now, Jackie and David's wedding from last week, and this coming week we've got a couple of shoots lined up, plus I have got several albums that I need to get hopping on. So, here's a little treat for you, and if you haven't hit the apple orchard yet this year, I would highly recommend it, they have the best caramel apples.

So, along with all the stuff we've been working on at home, I've been getting our new website all spiffed up, take a look (let me know what you think, it's still in the early stages!): www.realphotographyrealpeople.com, and please, let me know if anything's weird on there! I can see the website in my sleep, hahaha.

And by the way, we still have a bunch of openings up yet this year, so if you are thinking of getting those family portraits done in time for Christmas and the holidays, please give us a call, we'd love to help capture your memories!!

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{wedding} jeff + joleen

I know it's taken me a while to get these pics up, but here is Jeff and Joleen's wedding from the 19th of September.

Well, they called this one the "Brady bunch wedding"! Between Jeff and Joleen, they have three girls and three boys, and you can definitely tell that this is going to be one great big loving family! The couple got married out at Lake Redstone at Joleen's parent's summer home in the backyard. They had just invited family and close friends and it was so super casual, the girls didn't wear any shoes, and they had their kids standing up with them. It was so perfect, the light was beautiful, the bride was gorgeous and there was so much happiness.

The ceremony was short and sweet, it started at 6:30 and we were losing light fast, but we got all the pictures done in the nick of time.

Appetizers were served along with the wedding cake on the deck overlooking picnic tables set out on the lawn below. It was such a fun group and a blast to be a part of their day, so fun and filled with love.

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