There is something magical about a hidden falls engagement session. This place has everything I love – woods and water and stone and earth – and it is filled to bursting with the most incredible light. Every time I walk through these old woods, I can’t help but revel in the history here and think of those who have wandered these paths over the course of years long since passed. How many people walked here, searching, hunting, dreaming. If I close my eyes and sit quietly, the emotion trapped within this place becomes palpable. It lingers sweetly on the back of my eyelids and hums in my ears. At times I swear I can still hear the quiet echo of children chasing wild through the thickness of summer heat, the damp air clinging to their clothes as they rush to the river for a swim. I am completely in love with this...
an evening with amanda | minneapolis portrait photographer
things I want to remember | july
I spent a few hours with a dear friend of mine on Sunday. She came over for dinner, along with her husband and their two darling daughters, and we started discussing how quickly childhood goes, and how badly we want to remember all the little bits that seem to get lost in the clutter that is life. She keeps a blog to remember these things – for posterity or blackmail or graduation party slideshows and wedding toasts – and she mentioned that every month she writes down all the things she doesn’t want to forget. The little things that are big things when they happen. Minutia. Celebrations. Hard days. Good days. Smiles and tears. Any and all of it. I liked the idea so much I’ve decided to steal it. I used to be a mom blogger. I used to keep better track of my memories. These girls are growing like...
catie + tim’s handmade madison wedding | a don’t give up story
I believe in fate – in serendipity and timing and that the universe has a plan for each of us. I believe that I was destined to meet Catie and Tim. To tell their story. To be with them, alongside them, as they etched scribbled words onto the first page of this next chapter in their lives. I went to Madison in May for their engagement session and knew instantly that this love was something different. Something that not everyone has the blissful opportunity to experience. These two are proof that you cannot love in moderation. You love with all of you. Every last ounce and drop and itty bit. And as we ventured around Tenney Park that gorgeous Spring evening, we talked about that kind of love. About the joy and bliss and awe that is life. About relationships and trust and dancing. We talked about giving up. What it...
