Danielle + Terry were married in the woods on a perfect summer-fading-into-fall day just over a year ago. Their wedding day was ripe with emotion and joy and laughter and beer and dancing and hot summer sun. On that beautiful September day we knew that we’d be getting together once more, Terry + Danielle in their wedding attire and I with my camera. We just didn’t know when. Autumn faded into winter, and winter into another perfect wedding season for me, and a wonderful season of newly-wedded busy-ness and bliss for the Biercaps. Suddenly their anniversary was upon us, already the leaves were beginning to settle into their harvest glow before falling softly to a snow-ready ground, the air turning cooler, denser, the breeze blowing the seasons over with a damp heaviness. It was time. We met along the bluffs of the St. Croix River, one of my most favorite places in the...
love is waterfalls and weddings and adventure and new beginnings. love is shorey + phil | part one
Shorey and Phil were married at BauHaus Brew Labs in late June. Their wedding was a dream and wholly representative of who they are, not just as two people planning a wedding, but as two people starting a new chapter of their life together. It was my kind of day. There were four different food trucks and craft beer and a monsoon of a rain storm and a ferris wheel and easy smiles and bottles of whiskey and dancing under cafe lights and capital F family. Shorey + Phil and I became friends on their wedding day. We got together for beer (more Bauhaus!) and dinner about a month later, and then a few weekends ago ventured to one of my most favorite places in the world to make a few more images of them. This isn’t their wedding day (but don’t worry, that’s coming, too) even though it looks like it....
love is music and family and love and light. love is emily and kyle’s minneapolis wedding at aria | the jeune lune
Emily and Kyle were married on a perfect Sunday in Minneapolis. Emily is a self-proclaimed introvert, though she’s also fiercely loyal and loves deeply. You can feel it the second you step into her presence and it lingers long after she’s left. It’s a quality few possess and Kyle is the lucky beneficiary of such a wild, deep, full love on a daily basis. Kyle is funny, though he’ll likely not admit it himself. They both have incredible taste in music and food and friends and brought all three together for their wedding day. I cannot do their story justice with words, but I can pay it homage in photographs (though I wouldn’t have done it the same justice without my wonderful second shooter, Kelsea, by my side). Here are some favorites from their laid-back, relaxed, perfectly wonderful Aria wedding:...
letters to a stranger us all | my depression story
It’s been one year since Robin Williams’ death. Three hundred sixty-some days since the reality of depression rocked most to their core. For those of use who battle(d) depression, Robin’s passing elicited an all-too-familiar feeling. Some were discouraged, “if Robin can’t win this fight, what hope do I have?” was a phrase uttered by many. It’s really easy to succumb to depression. To let it envelop you wholly, pull you under it’s seductive, mysterious, alluring spell. It’s harder hardest to fight. It’s hardest to pull yourself out of bed and choose to live another day. To breathe another day. To not-die-today for one more day. To Carry on. It’s easy for those who have never battled depression to tell us to “get over it” or “it’s not that bad” or brush off our feelings as if they’re nothing more than a distraction. A nuisance. But for us it’s visceral. It’s...
