Jim & Tessa Wedding | Hinsdale, IL | Ruth Lake Country Club

A good friend got married last weekend. It was truly an amazing ceremony and party. It was great to see so many friends too. I just couldn't not bring a camera either.

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Kelly & Jared | Engagement Session | Quincy, Illinois

Kelly and Jared weren't extremely excited for their engagement pictures. So we started brainstorming ideas to do something different with the shoot. With talking with them, Jared is a huge gangster, 1920s, Boardwalk Empire fan. So we decided to have a 1920s inspired engagement shoot. More brainstorming led to the idea of a bank robbery and jail break. Talking with friends and family in the area, we gained access to an old bank, and the old Hannibal Prison. Yes that's right we had access to shoot in an old prison!! Very excited!

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The flooding of the Mississippi

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Fourth of July festivities.

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Peter & Priya Proposal | Quincy, Illinois

I met Peter over a month ago and he told me he was planning on proposing to his girlfriend. I said I could help him out and off we went scouting locations and plotting how's and whens. It was fun but as the date got closer the weather was a pain. Was it going to rain was it not. Good thing we had two locations picked out. It was raining at location 1 but not at location 2.



Priya said Yes!!



So these two girls were in the fountain dancing around and yelling at me to take their picture. I thought they were going to blow my not so secret cover. They went up to Peter and Priya to congratulate them. It adds to their story.



After the proposal I introduced myself, congratulated the couple took a few pictures of them and off they went for what Priya thought was a nice dinner for two. Peter worked with Chef Michael at Bittersweet Confections here in Quincy. They had an amazing Indian spread and 15 close friends there. The friends didn't know they would be engaged either.



After dinner we went out around downtown and took a few pictures.




Had a great time with them and a huge congratulations again to them! Congrats Priya and Peter!!

Lil Jay's Birthday

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