On a cold and windy day in October I like to reminisce on a beautiful July day with two pretty great people! This last summer Hope and Steven were in Iowa to help our friends at Fairholm during the IA State Holstein Show, we managed to squeeze in their session, a cow show, a kayak … Continue reading Steven + Hope

In honor of Tanner Scheckel's newest album, My Hometown, being released today, here is the branding session we did for the artwork for his album! Tanner and I connected when Kyle and I were searching for a band for our wedding, at the St Patricks Day festival in Farley we walked in and heard Tanner … Continue reading Tanner Scheckel

I had said I'd be better at blogging my sessions.....whoops! But to make up for it, here is an amazing session with a sweet couple who live only a town over from I! When we we're going into this session I told Meredith to have a few drinks and simply get ready for a fun … Continue reading Jason + Meredith

This session was so fun last fall, it was also frigid cold and windy but you couldn't tell from these smiles! The Wernke's used to be our neighbors before they moved out to their family's farm right outside of town! Their new land is a photographers dream and we walked all over their property capturing … Continue reading Wernke Farm Family

I am ready for any weather that doesn't involve snow or ice so today I thought I'd share Regans senior photos from a beautiful fall day in October! Regan is my fiance's youngest brother and a one of a kind guy. When he's not in school he's usually on the farm working with the cows … Continue reading Regan Demmer | Western Dubuque Senior

The other day I had mentioned doing some Spring Mini Sessions and Katie messaged me about Clayton's Six Month photos and I was pretty much like, "Wait, no, 6 months?!" How does time fly by so quickly?! This seems like yesterday, we had two photo sessions to get this in-home newborn session done because it … Continue reading Clayton Wolf | Newborn

This past Fall I offered two Fall Mini Sessions, one in the Dubuque area and one back in my home town of Lake Mills, WI. I had the greatest group of families and littles come out for this, despite the awful mosquitos we still had. On a side note, hoping this cold spirt will really … Continue reading Mini Sessions

And on this -55 below day, I like to look back on a warm August evening with an expecting family to be. Laura and Ryan had their maternity shoot all the way back in August and now their sweet little Kacey Lee is 4 months old, needless to say, I'm behind on blogging...however I've made … Continue reading Kramer Family | Maternity

Meet Myra, she's a spunky, fun loving girl whos active in extracurriculars than I knew existed. We started her session at an Iowa creek bank, went to downtown Dubuque and then dashed back to the creek to get some pictures in the creek itself! It was cold and we may have run into a spider … Continue reading Myra Clasen | Western Dubuque Senior

I haven't been the best at regularly posting on the blog, but now that my "busy season" has slowed down a bit I'm determined to get more on this! So to start, here's Cody's senior session from this past summer. Cody comes out to Le-O-La and helps during the summers and has been a great … Continue reading Cody Horsfall | Western Dubuque Senior