The Osprey Nest at Flamingo Here’s our story and photos about an Osprey nest at Flamingo, Everglades (actually, we’ll talk about two nests). Joannie and I recently returned from a fantastic winter trip to Florida. Along the way, I had many great opportunities to create landscape, nature, and wildlife photography. One of the major places we concentrated on was at Everglades National Park. At over 1.5 million acres, we barely scratched the surface of this enormous park, but we did try! Our selfie, taken in the rain, at what is known as “The Entrance Potato” at the Homestead ..read more

Easter Photos with Real Bunnies Happy Easter everyone! We want to share another of our Easter photos with real bunnies this blessed Easter morning! Here are Anthony & Alex! These sweet two-and-a-half-year-old twin brothers had a blast with our bunnies, Jack and Cookie Dough! So much so, that I thought writing a story about it was very fitting. So, here goes! Anthony & Alex with our bunnies, Jack and Cookie Dough! History Repeating Joannie and I have more than a little history with this wonderful family. Where to begin? We’ve known the whole family for decades. I used to work in the g ..read more

Adorable Easter Photos Miss Delilah hanging out with Jack and Cookie Dough! We have some adorable Easter photos to share with you today! Meet sweet three-year-old Delilah, along with our two cute bunnies, “Jack” and “Cookie Dough”! Miss Delilah arrived to visit our bunnies along with her grandmother and great-grandmother. We all enjoyed watching her cuddle and enjoy Jack and Cookie Dough. She put on quite a show! One fun thing to note is that Delilah is wearing the very same dress that her mom wore when she had her Easter photos done, also with real bunnies, many years ago. That’s pretty coo ..read more

Caterpillar CS56B Vibratory Soil Compactor Here’s the story behind a cool light painting of a Caterpillar CS56B Vibratory Soil Compactor! I found this guy sitting right next to a Caterpillar 336F Excavator that I also light painted earlier that night. You can find that light painting’s story and images at this link. Both rigs are owned and operated by Veit & Company, Inc. out of Rogers, Minnesota. Here’s what the Caterpillar CS56B Vibratory Soil Compactor looked like before I got started on light painting it. I was up on Lake Superior that day to create senior portraits for a client of o ..read more

Caterpillar 336F Excavator Here’s another cool light painting of a piece of heavy construction equipment! This time it’s a Caterpillar 336F Excavator! Did you know that there are a bazillion different configurations of these excavators? I have light painted several CAT excavators, and not one of them is the same model! Here’s the setup photo, taken in light rain, of the Caterpillar 336F Excavator. It was a muddy mess, but worth it! This one is owned and operated by Veit & Company, Inc. out of Rogers, Minnesota. I found this big rig while I was up north on Lake Superior. It was after ..read more

Chart House Light Painting It’s time to share the beautiful Chart House light painting that Joannie and I created for Jess and Jess during their wedding reception. With all of the fall colors, their one-of-a-kind wedding artwork is really beautiful! This is our third post from Jess and Jess’ fantastic wedding day. Yes, it was that awesome! In our first post, we had lots of fun wedding photos and a cute music video with many more images. That story was all about the events leading up to their wedding ceremony. It included the first looks of Jess with his pretty bride-to-be (below), and, a short ..read more

Chart House Wedding Ceremony Joannie and I are thrilled to share more of our photographs from Jess and Jess’ beautiful October 28th Chart House wedding ceremony! Just a few days ago, we shared “Part One” of their pretty wedding day. It included all of the events that led up to their wedding ceremony. You can see many of those pretty wedding photographs, read about them, and view a cute music video, at this link. However, now it’s time for the really important part, Jess and Jess getting married!   Jess and her dad enter the wedding venue. Jess and Jess exchange their wedding ..read more

Senior Photos at Bunker Hills Here are some of our favs from Megan’s senior photos at Bunker Hills Regional Park in Andover, Minnesota. Megan is a 2024 senior at Blaine High School. I met up with Megan, along with her mom and dad, at Bunker Hills Regional Park on what might have been the last warm Thursday afternoon of 2023. We had originally planned on creating her senior portraits the week before. However, fall colors were one of the things that she wanted most in her senior pics, and the colors were just so-so at that time. So we took a chance and backed it up a week. That turned out to be ..read more

Senior Portraits in Downtown Minneapolis Time to share some images from another great senior photo session! This time, I’ve got Noah’s senior portraits in downtown Minneapolis! Noah is a 2024 senior at Wayzata High School. Here’s a nice portrait of Noah created on the bridge to Nicollet Island. There’s some great history here too. Joannie and I had the honor of photographing his parents’ wedding, Blake and Christine, back in October of 2000! I have also photographed Noah and his older brother, Gabriel, several times over the years as well. As a matter of fact, I also photographed Gabe’s seni ..read more

Senior Photos at Long Lake Regional Park Time to share some of Laney’s pretty senior photos at Long Lake Regional Park. This beautiful park is located in New Brighton, Minnesota. I spent a wonderful evening with Laney and her mom, Pam. The big bonus here was that it was a glorious fall day in Minnesota! Being asked to create Laney’s senior portraits is pretty special for me in a couple of ways. First, I’ve been the photographer for Laney’s extended family for many, many years. To continue to be asked to do so is truly an honor, to be sure! Second, and I didn’t know this until I saw Laney ..read more