30 & Fabulous.....

Send Derrick some Birthday love. Today is the BIG 3-0. Derrick's Mom brought some delicious carrot cake over earlier and now we are off to the the Badger game and local establishments to celebrate. (hopefully the freezing rain holds off)

Thanks to Derrick's Mom for the pictures. :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DERRICK!!! Love lots! April

Post show - Pre Valentine's Day offer

$300 off all of our wedding packages until February 15th 2010.  This includes our already heavily discounted Photo and Video packages ( limited availability ).  Contact us to check availability on your wedding date and for more info. 

2010 Winter Wedding Planner and Guide Show - Madison

This year's Wedding Planner and Guide show was a huge success.  It was the perfect combination of great weather and no Packer game that I think allowed for so many people to come out.  Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth.  We enjoyed meeting so many different people and getting a glimpse into their planning process.  We look forward to working with everyone who took advantage of our show special and booked us over the weekend and to all the couples who are still considering us and who we'll be meeting with in the coming weeks.  We want to thank Katie, who was one of the fabulous bride's we worked with this past year, for joining us in our booth on Sunday to help field questions and hand out info.  She did an awesome job and we think added a different perspective to describing our services that we obviously can't offer ourselves.  And we owe a great deal of thanks to Brian for helping put together and tear apart what we think was one of our best booth's ever.  Professor Brian, as we now call him because of his new career path, has shot with and worked with us for over 7 years now and is always there when we really need him, so thanks again.  We are still offering $300 off our packages through February 15th, so if you're considering us it's definitely a great value.  Below are a few pics of our set up.    

11.28.09 Christina + Rob are Married!

When Christina & Rob picked November 28^th as their wedding date they couldn’t of ever imagined that it would be such a beautiful day and that we’d be able to spend so much time taking photos outside.  With it being a ‘winter’ wedding we had to deal with the fact that the days are short and with the skies often being overcast, quality light is even shorter.  So wisely they decided to see each other prior to their ceremony and take the bulk of their ‘portraits’ before officially walking down the aisle.  Though this is a break in ‘tradition,’ it’s a strategy that is becoming more and more common for a number of reasons.  Besides being able to take advantage of the light, it seems like the couples we work with who do this are often more relaxed during their ceremony and therefore able to take more of the experience in without having nerves cloud things quite so much, they also typically are able to transition into the reception with their guests much sooner.  Even though Christina & Rob first saw one another prior to the ceremony, they still made a moment of their first meeting.  We got some really great shots at the Union, and although the chairs had all been put away for the season, the blue skies more than made up for the absent color that they bring.  We then headed over to the capitol before making our way back to the church.  After the ceremony they made a stop at the Old Fashion, where they had their first ‘date’ before heading to Nakoma Country Club for their wine themed reception.  I truly enjoyed documenting their day and we are really proud of all the great moments and images we’ve collected for them.  Below is a preview of some of their proofs.  - Derrick

Happy Holidays!!!

This year marked the first Christmas that Koeplin fully understood that Santa was coming, and the first Christmas that he got into making Christmas cookies, wrapping presents, opening presents, reading Christmas stories and so on. Which means this year was one of the first that I truly felt the magic of Christmas as an adult, cheesy as it sounds. There is nothing that will put a bigger smile on your face then looking up your stair case, Christmas morning, at 6 a.m. and seeing a 2 year old ready and waiting to discover what Santa brought for him! We hope all of you enjoyed the holidays with family, and felt the excitement of Christmas as much as we did!

Every holiday season we have clients order Christmas cards from their Weddings or Portrait Sessions, and of course we always send out personalized photo holiday cards as well.
Here is this years cover. The shoot was a bit more challenging with two kids this year.

Lyla's Christmas Shoot...

3 years ago I shot Lyla's Mom & Dad's wedding in Janesville, so when they were interested in doing a shoot for their Christmas cards with their one year old, Lyla, Derrick & I were thrilled.
Since I took a few months off from shoots to be home with Kohen, Derrick handled the shoot by himself, and got some great shots of Lyla in our gallery.

Kohen's Newborn Session...

It's hard to believe our little baby is already a little over 2 months old! (which means these pictures are as well) I have been meaning to post a few of his newborn shots for quite some time now. Thank you to everyone who has sent emails and notes with well wishes, we have been enjoying our first few months with Kohen, and Koeplin is loving being a big brother.

Kohen slept through a majority of his newborn session, which made our job even easier. I always love doing newborn shoots, but this one was of course extra special...

Sawyer is 1!

The last 2 months have been a whirlwind with shoots & the new addition of Kohen to our family, to say the least, we are a bit behind on our blog, but in the coming week we plan on posting a ton of our recent shoots, so continue to check the blog out for some of our later fall/winter weddings and some great couples and portrait sessions.

Our shoot with Sawyer was brief, due to rain and chilly winds, but plentiful in great moments of little Sawyer.  We can’t call him a baby anymore, as in past blogs, he’s definitely growing fast and becoming more and more of a little boy everyday. It's hard to believe Sawyer is now 1!

As always we loved working with Sawyer and his Mom & Dad!