Portraits: Katie

March 25, 2016 in portrait

Katie performed the 1st movement of the Elgar cello concerto on March 12th at Bucksbaum Center for the Arts and blew it out of the water!

Portraits: Mónica

February 27, 2016 in studio, portrait, dance

Desde chica Mónica ha bailado el ballet folklórico del Estado Mexicano de Jalisco. Su madre cosió por mano su vestido bonito. Fuimos al estudio un día frío en invierno y sacamos fotos, y aprendí que tengo mucho que aprender con respeto a tela que está moviendo!

Since Mónica was little she has danced ballet folklórico from the Mexican state of Jalisco. Her mother even made her beautiful dress by hand! We went to the studio on a cold wintery day and took some shots, and I learned I have a lot to learn about taking photos with moving fabric!

Bárbara Hernández: Extreme Swimmer

December 18, 2015 in portrait, travel

I met Bárbara while swimming on an intramural team at the University of Chile in Santiago. She specializes in swimming in freezing water (32-48 degrees Fahrenheit) and let me tag along to document one of her practice swims at Laguna del Inca behind Ski Portillo, a ski center at 2880m (9450ft) in altitude. She is training to swim at the World Championship in ice swimming in Russia next year!

Portraits: Eva

September 27, 2015 in portrait

First time doing portraits in awhile! I met Eva as a fellow exchange student last semester, and we had a lovely afternoon at Quinta Normal park taking some shots.

Carrie

January 07, 2015 in portrait

I had a vague idea of what I wanted to do for this shoot, done during the last day of finals week. One swimmer friend and a dark-colored bed-sheet later, this is what came out:

Athena

January 04, 2015 in studio, portrait, dance

Athena has trained in classical ballet and pointe and competes in pole vaulting for Grinnell. Yep.

Alex & Linda

November 02, 2014 in portrait

This forest filled with beautiful golden afternoon light was perfect for portraits of these two beautiful young women. This gorgeous place was only a short walk from the animal sanctuary we were volunteering at over fall break. Meant to be...

Linda's creative vision of having the leaves fall around Alex comes to life

Fun fact: they both have twin sisters :)

Studio Lighting 101

October 08, 2014 in portrait, studio

I took the plunge and purchased studio lighting (knowledge of how to use it not included). Thanks to some awesome studio lighting tutorials by CreativeLive and patient friends willing to model, here is the first batch of studio-lit portraits.

Portraits: Gina

September 19, 2014 in portrait

Gina, a field of flowers, a flowery dress, and golden light of Iowa's sunset = an awesome portrait shoot.

Catherine Coffey

September 17, 2014 in portrait

I've been itching to post these since Catherine and I did this shoot this summer for her upcoming album (!!!). I am lucky to know this amazing human as a friend and as the talented artist she is. Check out her music page here and listen to her music on her Youtube channel here. Fun fact: she was one of the first senior photo shoots I did when I was still in high-school.