Chasing the Light

Last week our other car was out of commission so I had to drive my husband to and from work so that I wasn't left all day without a car with 2 kids. Just in case & for the fact that I would go insane if I had to sit in the house all week! I snapped many pictures in the morning with my phone and on the second to last day I thought to myself, why am I not doing this with my camera?! The last day I took my camera with me, in the morning we were a few minutes later than the rest of the week so I missed the nice part of the sunrise (figures. since I had my camera!). But that evening I left the house early to catch some of the sunset. I felt like I was chasing the light. It had been so long since I've gone out to shoot, I felt alive. 
It was freezing, the wind was coming directly from the West, but I suffered and got some nice pictures.

Anne Marie & Matt's Sturgeon Bay, WI Wedding

The 1st of my 2 weddings I shot last month. Such an experience!
Anne Marie is a first cousin on my dad's side of the family. We grew up in the same town, so of course we celebrated Christmas Eve with our huge family every year either at Grandma's house or her family's house. I was honored that she and her fiance asked me to do their wedding photography.
The ceremony took place at the Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Sturgeon Bay, WI. It was a catholic wedding with mass and communion.  The reception was located in a tent on the property the Groom's Mom owns. It was a beautiful piece of land right on Sturgeon Bay.
Here are some of my favorite shots from their special day!

Mother of the Bride, crying.

Some reception decor 

The Wedding Party

I just love this shot of the bride, she looks so happy.

Bride & Groom

Driftwood at Sunset

A couple more photos from our long weekend in Ontonagon a couple weeks back. 

Lake Superior Summer Sunset

If I were to name one place on earth that I loved it would be by the shores of Lake Superior. I love the feeling of being there, so calm & relaxing. My soul was craving being by the Lake for months, so of course once I was able to go there I had to take some pictures.  I love watching the sun go down on the Lake, every night's sunset is different. This is from July 24th, if I remember right.

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Winter Sunset

I love to watch the sunset. I really need to just go out by myself one day to see the whole process because sometimes just after the sun goes down the sky is still pretty.

Snowy Fields

Happy New Year! I believe this is my first post of the new year? These were actually taken at the end of last year though. I hope to get out this weekend since it's supposed to be in the 30's!!!!!!!! Can you say heat wave? It will feel like summer after these last few days of -35 or below wind chills. Cant' wait! Maybe we can take a road-trip.

Camping at Brunet Island State Park

On Friday we decided to go camping since my husband got off of work early. We took a risk by hoping there was a walk-up site at Brunet Island State Park & there was. If you don't mind packing up with the risk of not having  a spot for the night, the walk-up sites are the way to go, much cheaper at $12 than $21 if you made a reservation (Shhh) . The park is about  a 20 minute drive for us so even if there wasn't anything it wasn't a huge deal. 

Here are a few shots from our trip. I have many more pictures from our little trip that you will see this week. One reason I love going on road trips is that I can get many different photo-shoots in! 

The park is located on the Chippewa River in Cornell, WI. 

Day

Sunset 

Night

I tried to take some photos at dusk, but they didn't come out so well. This is with even having the camera sitting on my lap. I need a tripod! 

Field Sunset

I hadn't been out this summer (yet) to do any sunrise or sunset photos. I've been slacking on that one, actually I've been doing my workouts at the time of night the sun sets so I haven't had the time. I've seen a couple of  nice ones where I wish I had my camera on me.  As for Sunrise, it seems like there hasn't been many mornings that the sun has even been up at that time. I actually have yet to take a sunrise picture with this camera.
Anyway, I snapped these pictures quickly on the way back last week from doing my 1st photo-shoot. I've been wanting to do a sunset in a field so I was glad it was a nice night.