Is Impostor Syndrome knocking on your door? You are good enough! Don’t answer the door! Impostor Syndrome; (noun) -a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident success -the inability to believe that one’s success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one’s own efforts or skills -the idea thatRead more
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Minnesota’s Best Of the Event Industry Every year Minnesota’s Meetings + Events Magazine poles the community for their choices of the ‘Best-Of’ in a variety of event catagories. I’ve never been a fan of what I call ‘popularity contest’ awards, but M+E Magazine does a decent job of picking out the companies for each catagory.Read more
Corporate Costume Party Halloween is my favorite holiday, mainly because of the costumes and bags of candy. What other time of year can you get away with wearing a costume at any time of the week, plus purcahse ten bags of candy for yourself and no one questions you? If people do look at youRead more
Branding Photoshoot: Hammerhead Swimcaps & Breakout! Swim Clinic I love doing branding shoots! Especially when they are outdoors, in a pool, on a warm and sunny, summer day! In Minnesota, our summer’s come quick, stay for a short time, and then run off so winter can freeze all our outdoor water. My daughter is aRead more
Superbowl Weekend Hits Minnesota So, I can finally share all (or at least some) of the fun stuff we got to photograph over the crazy week the Superbowl came to Minneapolis, Minnesota! It was a super tiring, stressful, exciting, fun and interesting week! Watching all of my fellow vendors bounce from one event to theRead more
International Live Event Association STAR Awards Event I woke up Friday morning hearing about a spring blizzard that would hit Minnesota that night. Being a true Minnesotan, I thought little of the warnings and moved on with my day. It’s springtime after all. How much snow could we actually get this time of year…? Apparently, aRead more
How I Create a Composite Image I love taking multiple images and seeing how I can edit them together to create a whole new image! People often ask me ‘how in the world did you do that?’ To answer that question in detail takes a long time. It also has a lot of, ‘I’m not reallyRead more
When you have photos of someone who has passed I never really know what to do when death comes knocking on someone’s door I know. I don’t know if anyone truly knows the right thing to do at times like that. Each situation is so different. We want to help, hug, feed, cry, console, screamRead more
Women are not perfect enough, and men have no opinion, are the sad differences about how they each personally feel about having their own photo taken. I’ve been a photographer for a long time. I’ve photographed many different body types, and have seen the beauty they each possess. No one body is prettier than another.Read more
Corporate Team Building Done Right It’s always fun to see the different ways companies come up with to do a team building event or meet and greet event. I’ve photographed cook outs, fancy dinners, extravagant parties with live animals and face painting, (yes, that really happened) private concerts, boat rides, golf, baseball games, stadium tours,Read more