Monday, January 21, 2008



On Friday evening, a friend and I went to the Barnes Bull Riding event at the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City, Iowa. They had around 40 cowboys attempting to ride a bull for 8 seconds! If you have never seen an event like this, I would highly recommend attending one. I took photos with a Nikon d3. I used a 400mm lens, an asa of 4000 and .60 second at f/5. The Tyson Events Center has great lighting so I was able to stop the action quite well!

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Barnes Bull Riding Competition

This is really great stuff! Be sure you watch this.

Friday, January 18, 2008

Coffee Table Books


This is the time of the year when many of the couples that we photograph bring us their selections for their coffee table book. We spend a lot of our time designing and preparing the books for them. These are a couple of panoramic pages from a wedding that we photographed at the Art Center in Sioux City, Iowa. This is a circular building with glass on at least three sides so Joan and I went to the Art Center and took practice photographs two days before the wedding so we could end up with images like these. Both of these were taken with a Nikon D2x in natural light. A 24 mm lens was used in each case. The building made the bottom photograph look like it was taken with a fisheye lens but it was not.

Friday, January 11, 2008


Be sure and check out the movie from Brett and Erin's wedding! The wedding was on New Year's Eve so there many fun photographs. I really like the photographs of Brett and Erin having fun with the plywood guitars at the dance. Be sure you check those out!

The Wedding of Brett and Erin

Monday, January 7, 2008

I am sure that some of you think we must spend every minute taking photos but that is not true. Last Friday I spent the day in Minneapolis with our grandson. We went to the 40 foot climbing wall at the REI store. It was so much fun to see him climb up to the top and ring the bell. No, I didn't even thing about trying it. Every climber needs an encourager, don't you think?














The photo on the left is from Brandon and Marcia's Christmas wedding in Le Mars. The center photo is from J.D. and Melissa's wedding in Le Mars and it took place during a snowstorm. The photo on the bottom is from Brett and Amber's wedding in Alton. It took place on a beautiful fall day. You can view movies from any of these weddings by clicking on the movies posted below this.


The wedding of Brandon and Marcia