Vicki and I often get asked “So do you guys only shoot weddings?”. Our answer is that while weddings are our primary focus, and truly do keep us more than busy (a quick estimate of 40,000 delivered wedding photos per year), we enjoy all types of photography . One great thing about what we do is being able to chronicle the various stages in our couples lives through photography. People come to us as clients, and we end up being friends because of these shared experiences. Case in point, Amaris and Brendan who hired us to photograph their engagement, wedding, “wear it again“, and recently, family session. It gets us all misty to look back over four years ago and see where we started with them, all the way up to now with the newest addition to their family, Manny (who couldn’t be any more adorable and truly is the best of both his parents). It’s a great feeling to do what you love for your livelihood, all while getting to know great people better, and watching them thrive!

Back in December of 2008 at their engagement session:

June 2009 at their wedding:

September 2009 “Wear it again!”:

Their recent family session:

Amaris & Brendan, we love you both and want to tell you again how much fun we had with you and Manny – you guys do great work .

xoxo,

Erik + Vicki

Last July, Vicki and I received an email inquiring about having us do an unorthodox photo shoot for one Nancy Shulins, and her magnificent thoroughbred horse Eli. Oh, and by the way, could we do it within the next week, and have the photos ready within the next couple of days after? We of course said “Yes”!, even though July for us was already jam packed with weddings and engagement sessions (nine in all), and proceeded to pack up our gear for the drive out to the farm for the shoot. We had never photographed an animal quite as large as a horse before (the closest being two Great Danes, which are pretty gigantic in comparison to our Chihuahua, Myles), and certainly not one with as much charm and personality as Eli . So we weren’t quite sure what to expect, other than we knew we had to come up with a perfect cover photo for Nancy’s new book (released today!).

You see, Nancy Shulins is kind of a big deal as it turns out. Not only was she the first woman special correspondent in the more than 150-year history of The Associated Press, her in-depth features for AP earned two Pulitzer Prize nominations and a Clarion award, and are included in numerous anthologies and textbooks. And her book is really, really GOOD. We were treated to an early release of “Falling for Eli“, and both Vicki and I couldn’t put it down once we started reading it.

That being said, we were treated to not only a fascinating discourse on the intricacies of horse ownership (or is it the other way around?), but also to the many wonderful facets of Eli’s personality (and he has it in spades) during our afternoon session with Nancy & Eli. The cover photo that was chosen for the book was one of our favorites out of the many great shots that beautiful July afternoon, and we couldn’t have had a better time getting to know Nancy and Eli . The fact that Nancy is such an amazing writer (seriously, go buy the book now, it is good in the “I know I was supposed to go to bed an hour ago, just one more chapter!” kind of way) was just icing on the cake to our newly found friendship with them.

We are so excited to announce that for the third year in a row we have won The Knot Best of Weddings.

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