More behind the scenes from a recent shoot for local dress designer, Tara LaTour

I prefer to work one on one. I don't like that feeling of someone looking over my shoulder as I experiment and try to create. BUT, often it takes a crew of people to pull something off. This shoot resembles that on a small scale. We used an expansive, new local venue (Machine Shop Minneapolis), the perfect HMU team (Julie Swenson & Melanie Rivers), top dress designer and her gang (Tara LaTour--Bridal couture for the cool kids), and a very patient and trusting model (Katie Lee from Ignite Models). If you see me in a photo it was taken by my amazing assistant, Josiah. Hope you enjoy these. I'll be posting my favorite photos from the shoot in the next post. Hope you all get some time to slow down and enjoy friends and family this week.   

Something different. Behind the scenes for Tara LaTour

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I usually don't get photos of me working, but after a recent shoot for Tara LaTour, one of her assistants texted me these sweet bts pics and I'm so thankful! Thought I'd show you a side by side of me shooting and the resulting images. One thought I had while looking through these (more bts images to come!)...There's nothing magical about whats going on, necessarily. It's more about how the photographer is seeing light, shape & form and how to capture that. Our eyes are amazingly complex, but film doesn't behave the same way. Thinking the way your film or camera thinks and how they will react to the light is more the excitement and challenge. Thanks for sticking with me all these years. 2016 has proven to be as crazy as I thought, but its been amazing. I haven't had time to blog much, but I know it'll slow down eventually and I'll have no excuse!