Our sincerest congratulations and well-wishes to Brett & Maggie Albright. I had a wonderful time celebrating with them last weekend and today, I'm excited to share some images from their weekend wedding. Enjoy!

Last weekend's wedding was beautiful and much less rainy than the forecast told us it would be. And now that Brett has seen Maggie in her beautiful wedding dress, it's time for everyone else to see her too. Here's a few of our favorite bridal portraits. Wedding images coming soon :) Enjoy.

Yes, I have an Apple Watch. For those of you who know me, I’m sure you saw this coming. However, I didn’t just jump on the bandwagon because I’m an Apple fanatic. Apple products make up a large part of my work/home life because they integrate with each other so well and they just work. I've been using Apple stuff since college and for me, there was value in owning an Apple Watch, even in the product’s infancy. I bought it knowing that it wouldn’t be perfect, that there would be improvements as time goes on and that the overall usability would take some getting used to. But the fact of the matter is that in spite of its newborn limitations, the Apple Watch is off to a great start and I love it. There’s been quite a few in-depth reviews of the watch thus far so I’m going to keep this one short, sweet and visual. I'll touch on a few reasons why I bought the watch and summarize how it’s integrated into my life thus far. If you have any questions, please feel free to email. Enjoy.

**PLEASE NOTE** 

Our automatic email responders have been set but we've received a few messages via Facebook and Text message (to which there are no automatic responders) so I wanted to address those here. We are out of town this week for my daughter's surgery and I will be taking a break from responding to most email, voicemail and social media messages and posts. Instead, I will be focusing on attending to my daughter for her surgery and recovery while also taking care of my wife my son.

And to those of you who know about our situation and have responded so warmly, thank you again for all the thoughtful and heartfelt responses of love, prayer, and support. We truly appreciate it. 

Our collaborations with Red Barn Studio, Murdog Creative and 6th & Burnside continue. This week, we had the privilege of hanging out with local indy band, Brother Moses. This was our first full band live session so all had to wear earplugs. Here's some behind-the-scenes images as well as the final video. As always, thanks to Jason Miller for hosting and to Murray Williams for coordinating, directing and producing. Enjoy!

It was a great honor to begin the 2015 wedding season by celebrating with and photographing two very good friends as they began their new life together. Aaron and Brook are two of the kindest people you'll ever meet. Their love for each other and the people around them is obvious and inspiring. Their beautiful Spring wedding took place at an amazing new wedding venue in the area called Rockford Grange. What this venue lacks in cell phone reception, it more than makes up for in thoughtful details, beautiful scenery and friendly staff. Besides, it's my personal opinion that people should shut their phones off and just enjoy the celebration anyway :) Here's a few images from the day. Congratulations you two! 

I was inspired to make this post after reading a recent issue of Kinfolk Magazine. For those of you who are photography or design (or both) nerds, you've probably already heard of this magazine and if not, you should do yourself a favor and check it out. Kinfolk as a publication is focuses on creating content that encourages its readers to embrace a simplified and slow-paced lifestyle. Their latest issue is titled "The Entrepreneurs Issue" and the following quotes are taken from a recent Saturday morning that I spent reading it. The images that follow the quotes are both my interpretation of the quotes from the article and also, ways in which I myself am attempting to practice a more simplified and slow-paced lifestyle. I hope that these quotes inspire you as they have me. Enjoy. 

I once again had the opportunity to collaborate with local talent to create a music video for local artist and celebrity, Benjamin Del Shreve. Benjamin (who usually plays with a full band), brought technology (aka a BOSS RC-300 loop station for all you gear nerds out there), choosing to loop several instruments and vocal patterns on top of each other and then, sing along. The result was incredible and we're excited to share it with you. Once again, thanks to Jason Miller at Red Barn Studio for recording, Murray Williams of Murdog Creative for organizing, directing and producing, the video, to Bryan Fittin of 6th & Burnside for being an all-around great personality to spend the evening with and to Benjamin Del Shreve, for rocking our lenses and our faces off. Here's a few behind the scenes images along with the video. Enjoy!

** Note ** Red Barn Studio Live Sessions is a collaborative effort to promote new and existing local music talent. It is also an opportunity for creatives to have a "jam session" of their own and to contribute to a fun project. If you're a musician or group and you are completely awesome at what you do, let us know. 

It's common knowledge among anyone that knows me well, that the opportunity to photograph anything bike related would be considered a dream job. And a couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to spend a couple of days doing just that.

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a multi-camera video shoot for music artist Chanika McLelland. We all gathered at Red Barn Studio, setup multiple angles and recorded while Chanika recorded a beautiful rendition of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide". Owner and producer Jason Miller captured some of the best sounding audio I've heard come out of a local studio and Murray Williams (Murdog Creative) produced an amazing video compiling all of the footage captured. It was a lot of fun working alongside these guys as well as Michael Drager, Bryan Fittin and Murray's son, Wyatt. Here's a few still images captured during the evening as well as a link to the final product. Enjoy!

Happy Spring! This time of year, the weather can be especially unpredictable. But Brooks and Cassidy managed to pick a wonderful evening to hang out and have fun with their engagement photos. Here's a few favorites from the evening. Enjoy!

Congratulations to Pepsico for their winning the supplier of the year award and a special thanks to Propac Marketing for allowing us to document the celebratory evening. Here's a few of our favorite images. Enjoy!

We've worked with AERT on a couple of different occasions over the years and we recently had the opportunity to work with them again. AERT is a company that converts reclaimed plastic and wood fiber waste into quality outdoor decking and railing systems, fence systems, and door and window components. Our photography work with them over the years has consisted of visiting homes that feature their products and photographing their products on-location. Our recent work with them however, involved not only on-location photography, but also in-studio product photography which we had a blast with. Here's a few selected images from our recent and not-so-recent work with this innovative company. Enjoy. 

We’ve been in business for 10 years and today marks 5 of those years being in our studio space. When we moved in, we were simply looking for a little more room to shoot, a place to have an office, a meeting place that wasn't a coffee shop and most of all, a space that was separated from the house. Over the years however, our studio space has become so much more.

For a few weeks now, we've been working on a super fun project and today, we're excited to share. One of the greatest joys of working with products is that we get to not only tell their benefits and features through a story, but we get think of ways to bring the product itself to life. Such was the case with the Zipper Bag by Cumberland Concepts. 

Cold weather and snow were in the forecast this weekend. But that didn't stop Aaron and Brook from celebrating their engagement. With coffee, cappuccino and hot chocolate in-hand, we road tripped around and stopped off at some interesting spots along the way. Here's a few images from our evening together. Happy Snow Day!

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. The local flower shops are busy taking orders, restaurants are filling up with reservations and of course all of the Walmart stores are overstuffed and overstocked with candies and balloons. And while it’s true that this holiday makes most of us think of love in a cute and romantic sort of way, we are taking today to celebrate a different kind of love. 

I recently had the opportunity to travel around the beautiful state of Arkansas with the Fayetteville based design firm DOXA, to create images for the new Bear State Bank. Bear State Financial recently purchased a few different banks in Arkansas and Oklahoma and they wanted to incorporate imagery of all the employees in their new internal and external marketing materials. Over the course of a 2 week period, I had the opportunity to travel to the different branches, meet the employees and photograph them in their work environments. Today, I'm excited to share some portraits of the incredible people that I met while working on this project. Thanks to DOXA for the opportunity and congratulations on the creation of a beautiful brand. 

It's currently spring weather in the middle of January and that little glimmer of Spring was great for Ben, Ryan and their engagement photos last weekend. Heres a few favorites from the evening.

Enjoy!

No, we didn't go to Chicago recently. But a few years ago, we did. Did we have fun? Not really. Mostly because unbeknownst to me at the time, I had Mono. I think without having Mono though, it would be fun. Not as much fun as New York City of course, but fun nonetheless. One of our early 2015 tasks is backing up and moving files around at the studio and yesterday, I happened upon these pictures. They were made before we ever launched this site but I still felt compelled to share a few here on the blog. Enjoy.