Hayden is 2!!!!

Greg, Brevinn and I were all part of this session in New Holstein, WI! I had the honor of photographing Hayden, who is actually a 2nd cousin of ours! Scott(who is Greg's cousin) and Marissa have a son named Hayden! They were married this past spring, and our gift to them was a photo session!
The session was late evening and we went to a park, just down the street from their home! We had Parker John's pizza before the photographs were taken. It a very casual session, which are my favorite, and really fun to hang out with Scott and Marissa! Hayden is a great kid & he is quite the ham!!!! Can you tell?

CONGRATS KATIE & DJ {Milwaukee, WI - Wedding Photography}

I am uploading a quick preview of a wedding I shot yesterday in Milwaukee! We had a blast, DJ and Katie were amazing to work with and their love was so real!!! God's blessings you two and more pictures to come of course!!!!

M.L.Y.G Camp Out {Messiah Lutheran Church, South Windsor}

Greg and I are the youth leaders at our church, Messiah Lutheran, in South Windsor! We organize several events every year, this was a huge event as far as planning purposes! It was a huge success due to ALL of our volunteers who contributed their time and talent!

The slideshow is made up of pictures taken with my camera, but a ton of people were able to use it and take some GREAT PICTURES, thanks everyone for helping capture this event, it's fun to be on the other side of the camera a little bit!!!

The Gran Brothers, College Grads {Old Wethersfield, CT}

A couple weeks ago I photographed Jarrett & Justin. They are brothers who are graduating from college a year a part and their mom wanted to get some creative photographs of them. We needed head shots for Justin who is studying to be a minister We also needed some portraits of Jarrett in his cap and gown, because the day of graduation he had a pretty bad black eye, from what I understand. These boys are all about the extreme sports, like snowboarding, skiing off
extreme vertical cliffs, and Jarrett evens flies his own planes. During the session we talked about taking photographs of them while they are skiing, as well as Jarrett giving me a plane ride to capture aerial photographs of CT & NYC!!! AWESOME!!! I'm up for both of these ideas & I know in both cases we'd get some rad photographs of you two!!! Hopefully this fall and winter we can make it happen!

Class of 2010 Seniors {Micah, MLS}

So, last week I had the pleasure of photographing Micah, who goes to school in Michigan at the Michigan Lutheran Seminary, a WELS H.S.! He is our Pastor's son at Messiah Lutheran in South Windsor and that is how I got connected with him, saying this because I don't advertise in a high school seniors market. Frankly, I just don't have time to advertise!!! I guess that is a good thing!!!

Micah plans to go to school for engineering, fantastic! He could also have a solid career modeling....but I HIGHLY DOUBT he wants to do that!!! Thanks again Micah, God's blessings on your last year in H.S.!!!

Johnny Rocket's is a GREAT Place to shoot!!!
Of course, I'm obsessed with RED, so that may be a reason I loved it there!!!

FUN FAMILY 4th {Wisconsin 4th of July}

I'm excited to post pictures from our visit to Wisconsin from the 4th of July weekend. It was really special because we usually NEVER see family on an actual holiday!!!! I realize I STILL need to post pictures from our spring ARIZONA trip...ughhhhh...it never ends!!!! BUT I LOVE IT ALL!!!!

These photographs were taken in Karen & Jerry's (Greg's parents) beautiful backyard in there NEW home in Kiel, WI!

Thanks to my good friend Jen Plisch, I composed the image, and she was able to snap the picture!!!





This wasn't the best time to photograph the 3 grand kids...but I don't know if anytime is perfect.....in these pics Brevinn was SO ready for a nap and I believe Ava was just ready to be done with all of the nonsense!!!! Overall I was happy with the outcome...it's so amazing that in 2 years there are 3 cousins...boom, boom, boom!!!! YEY, it will be such a joy seeing them grow up together!!

NEW product, Artist Series

Ok, so I have this product FINALLY!!! It's a really fun gift idea, and VERY economical!!! Check it out!!!! For more information email me, missy@galleriavivid.com and I'll send you a PDF of all of my updated products!

ERIN rocked Hartford {Calendar Glam Session, M.V. Photography}

Ok, so this week I had the pleasure of photographing Erin, a friend of ours that also works at ESPN. She is getting involved in our calendar for charity, so exciting!!!! As well as we needed to take "head shots" for her potential future opportunities, long term, to be doing some on-camera work. Erin, you would be great, you are such an honestly sweet person, I wish you all the best for always, wherever life may take you!!!

These shots look sooooo vintage to me, I love them!!!

THE GOLD BUILDING, I FINALLY SHOT THERE!!!! YEY!!!!

This was taken at a very cool, chill coffee shop on Pratt Street called JoJo's!!




City Steam rocks for many reasons: 1. is the beer 2. the atmosphere YEY!!!