Avoid wedding day make up issues with these simple make up tips for (and high school seniors too). Very few make up artists set out to make you look bad. Just about all my clients look fantastic right out of the make up chair. That’s not the issue. The problem is that not very many...
At Last! A Gay Wedding in Michigan! June 26, 2015 – On the date that will go down in U.S. history as the day the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, it will also mean something else for Jenn and Emily. Friday was all about getting married to the person they loved. They’d spent months and...
I decided last week that I “needed” to have my personal photos updated. It had been a decade since my wonderful photographer hubby (and back up shooter) Rodney Curtis (www.rodneycurtis.com) had been allowed to take any formal photos of me. Like many photographers I know, not too many of us like being in front of...
Detroit Winter Wedding Photography Detroit, Michigan winter wedding photography featuring favorite places to shoot indoor winter wedding photos as well as popular Detroit outdoor winter locations. Yes, that lovely reflection of the church IS ice! Turns out brides and grooms get married in the Metro Detroit area all the time in the very late fall...
It’s Michigan, it rains and it’s senior portrait season! Photographing in terrible weather is par for the course. What you don’t realize is that it can create dynamic, dramatic and really unique senior photos. As a photographer who always creates studios on location (or as you may like to call it: outdoors), weather is always...
BOUDOIR PHOTOGRAPHY ADVICE: As Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching, I thought I’d give all the ladies out there some important advice before they book their boudoir or glamour photography sessions here in semi tundra we call Michigan. 10. Find a compatible photographer both you and your partner will be happy with. If your partner is...
Meet Eleanor… cutest baby in the world! I decided to post some of her images because a) she’s cute, b) she’s one of my wedding couple’s baby and c) it turns out she’s the perfect age to shoot! I’m often asked what the perfect age is to take baby photos. Newborns are awesome, but the...
I overheard this story from my groom at last week’s wedding. He sees his beautiful bride walking down the aisle towards him. She sees him and bursts into tears. The first words out of her mouth when she reaches him? “I can’t do this.” His heart lurches; his stomach tightens; he breaks out into a...
Here are a few wedding day tips for my Michigan wedding clients! Orange barrel season is in full swing! Drive the route you sent out to all your guests a week or two before the wedding to make sure all the maps and directions you gave your guests still apply. If detours or delays are...
There is a new trend out there for the wedding fashionistas and Kate Middleton has nothing to do with it! I shot two weddings back to back that both featured the bride in a knee length wedding dress. Both brides relished their fun, sassy and easy to wear take on their wedding dresses. I have...
