Scott and Jessie's Story of our Love Post 3

Posted by posted by Kindra Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 4:25 PM


We found this cool alley in Valley Junction with a lot of good photo opportunities. Since it was November, they had lined the trees, with Christmas lights so it set a very romantic mood.



The Christmas lights and fire escape were great backgrounds. We probably could've spent half their session in this alley easily.


A moonlit walk down the alley. Thanks Jessie and Scott being so flexible with the bad weather and never complaining how cold it was. Hopefully it'll be much nicer weather for your Spring session. We're really looking forward to your next session. I think you've come up with a lot of great locations.

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Scott and Jessie's Story Of Our Love Post 2

Posted by posted by Kindra at 4:09 PM


Another cute family photo from the dog park. We can't wait to see how much little Tuck has grown when we photograph him again in the Spring for their Iowa City part of their session.



I love Jessie's expression in this. You can tell how much she loves Scott in this one.


This one was taken in Valley Junction at a nice shop. Another cute, snuggly one of them. I love how relaxed Scott and Jessie are with each other.

Check back soon for some more portraits on Jessie and Scott!

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Jessie and Scott's Story of our Love Session Post 1

Posted by posted by Kindra at 3:33 PM


You'll probably remember a couple of months ago that we posted a sneak preview from Jessie and Scott's Fall Story of our Love session. With all the busyness with the holidays, we didn't get a chance to meet with them until last weekend so here are some of the best from their session. Scott and Jessie love drinking coffee together so this was taken in a coffee shop. I love the expressions of them gazing at each other.


Here's a photo of Jessie with Tuck and Callie while Scott went to fetch another collar for Callie. It was snowing while we were at the dog park but you'd never know it was that cold by the expression on Jessie's face.


I love this one.

Here is Scott and Jessie's favorite photo of the day because it shows their family. They decided when they announce their engagements in the papers that they're going to use this one. We have a dog named Buddy so we love sharing cute pet stories with them.

We will be posting more portraits from their session within the next week so keep checking back!

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Matt and Stephanie

Posted by posted by Kindra Monday, December 17, 2007 at 10:54 AM

Matt and Stephanie had a wonderful wedding in West Bend, Iowa. Stephanie looked so beautiful and her dress had so many pretty details to it! Stephanie had suggested that we take the portraits of her and Matt's first look of each other at her Grandmother's farm. There was so many fun places to capture portraits including a barn and Stephanie's family's semi. After the wedding, we took the wedding party to the Grotto, a site that West Bend is known for because of it's stone sculptures (also it is the world's largest grotto). We were very pleased we were able to get two outdoor locations accomplished, despite the chilly weather. Thanks Matt and Stephanie for letting us celebrate in your special day! We've had so much fun getting to know the two of you and we wish you all the love in the world.

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Doug and Molly

Posted by posted by Kindra Thursday, November 08, 2007 at 1:30 PM

We captured Doug and Molly's engagement session at 2 locations, The Rose Garden in Des Moines and Iowa State University. They ended up receiving a nice mix of summer and fall portraits. Doug and Molly had met while in college at ISU so we were glad to go to a location that is important to them. We even went to the location on campus that Doug had proposed to Molly. Molly and Doug are a really fun couple and have been such a joy to work with. They are very tender with each other but also very playful. What we love about these portraits is you can tell how deeply they love and appreciate each other. Some of our favorites at ISU were taken near sunset showing all the beautiful fall colors and the sun reflecting off the water. We are really looking forward to your wedding, Doug and Molly!

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Carla and Jess Engagement Session

Posted by posted by Kevin Barber Monday, June 04, 2007 at 6:51 PM

We had a great time taking Carla and Jess' engagement pictures. They were excellent models and we look forward to photographing their wedding this September in Des Moines.

Kindra had a great idea for sunset pictures and we decided to return to Big Creek State Park in Polk City. It had been rainy all day and so we were considering doing just studio pictures, but luckily the weather had cleared up just before our session, so we kept with the original plan.

As you may be able to tell, the beach was a bit soggy and it made getting onto the boat docks a little interesting. Its good that Carla and Jess were easy-going and flexible; they had no problem wading through a little water here or there.

Here is a slide show of some of our favorite images from the session. (be sure to click 'play' to see it in motion)



Technical Details:
For the silhouette photos, we metered off the sky and then composed the shot.
For the portraits with the sunset/sky background we used the Canon 580EX, metering with the flash to the couple.

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