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
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With Just a Little Imagination, and A Lot of Photoshop So you have a cool Halloween costume idea and you want to take a photo of it. Ok, cool. Are you the type to just go outside, take a quick photo and be done? Are you someone who sets up a fun location spot withRead more
The Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How Method When considering photos to use in your social media and marketing, it’s important to think a little bit more outside the box. Instead of showcasing just the obvious, showcase the subtle too. It will tell more of your story. People want to know more. Here areRead 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
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
Shoot and Share Contest 2017The results are in! And I’m a top 10 finalist! Every year, there’s a super fun photo contest that the company Shoot and Share put on. It takes hours and hours and hours of my life away from what I’m supposed to be doing online, and I don’t mind one bit!Read more
Minnesota Awesome Tee Shirt PhotoshootLove tee shirts that showcase your state’s iconic symbols and sayings? I love Minnesota. I’m a born, raised, and probably die in Minnesota, woman. So, when a tee shirt company called Minnesota Awesome needed a photographer for their clothing line, I was jumping up and down with excitement! These tee shirtsRead more