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We love Halloween. Dressing up, finding the perfect costume, dressing Jamie up so she’s the cutest little pumpkin or fairy, or both this year as the case may be, and then getting the house decorated for trick or treaters! We don’t get a lot of kids coming to our door as we are kind of off the beaten path, and perhaps the corpse handing out candy this year scared most of them away so I still have a cauldron full of candy, which is a bad bad thing at our house, but we do have fun getting things set up.

This year, we stole a couple of coffins, had a string of skulls lining the walk, and the creepiest monster/corpse to hand out candy. All right, perhaps Rob really was hiding under that ugly mask, and perhaps Jamie liked to kiss the mask, I know weird kid, right? So while Rob was dressed all creepy with his dad, scaring the kids that came to the house, Jamie and I dressed up as fairies. Yeah, we had awesome wings. I do believe that Jamie was the cutest little fairy in the house. I may be biased, but hey, she’s all mine and I’m allowed to be a little biased, don’t ya think? We did a little walking around ourselves, but really, a fifteen month old does not need any candy in my opinion, so we didn’t go too far before getting cold and coming home to make some awesome nachos and watch the kids come up to our own house.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween! Here is just a bit of what went on at our house this evening.

Here are some of my favorite shots from Amanda’s senior session this past summer. We shot both her and a friend during the session, Rob took Cole because the silly boy wouldn’t stop smiling at me, and smiling goofily I might add, so I got to take the lovely Amanda around.

We started in a tunnel, but then drove over to her location of choice, where I found an amazing blue wall, and Amanda showed me the perfect field of little purple flowers. There were plenty of bees upset by our intrusion, but we got some fun shots, my favorite with the fedora, and then headed out to an even bigger field of Queen Ann’s Lace and then to downtown Baraboo, where Amanda informed me that she enjoyed being enclosed. I love the shot of her standing in the big concrete opening, it’s one of my favorites.

Feel free to comment, I love to hear what you have to say, and I know our clients are always excited to read them, too!

Let me start out by saying that it’s not very often that we end up shooting our engaged couples by ourselves. Usually Rob and I are both out for the shoot, but for Shannon and Chris’ engagement shoot, it was all me. Which was more fun than I thought it would be, and of course my pictures were better than Rob’s, it’s an ongoing battle between the two of us, who’s pictures are better, ya know.

Anyways, back to the topic on hand. We decided to hit Pewitt’s Nest right outside of Baraboo for the engagement session. I’m always looking for the way that the light is flowing, yes light flows, so we’ll be walking and suddenly I’ll say, “wait! Come back, now step right in here . . . oh, watch out for that pricker bush-” or something like that. I’m always looking around for new and awesomer backdrops for my clients. The day we went out to Pewitt’s Nest was perfect, the leaves were turning a gorgeous yellow, and even some orange, we had most of the trails to ourselves, so Shannon and Chris didn’t feel too funny with all that lovey dovey stuff I make people do on these kind of shoots. Yes, I will ask you to hug your intended, and I hope you do it well or I’ll keep at you until I’m satisfied.

Not only did I get some awesome shots of Shannon and Chris, but they brought their puppy, err giant dog, for some shots. I got a killer jump shot. Take a look, and as always, I love to hear what you have to say!

It’s high time I starting sharing our Class of 2011 images, especially since this week is homecoming for this guy. As you can tell, Joe is big into sports. Rob and I had a blast with Joe, and even though it was crazy hot, you can’t tell that it was nearly one hundred degrees here, Joe was cool as a cucumber, not so much for Rob and I, let me tell you. Anyways, I’m getting off track here. Joe is big into sports as you can tell by his shots, we even hit the high school to get some shots on the track.

The clouds were amazing, and we got some sweet shots with them in the background, we even managed to finish up just in time for the sky to turn black and then start to get crazy windy, but not before Joe let me douse him with water, over and over, to try and get a Gatorade effect.

Take a look, let me know if you can pick out the Superman pose, and as always, we love to hear what you have to say, unless it’s spam, that’s totally not worth it to me.

I love all the equipment that Joe brought along, can’t you tell?

I just had to share a little from Kristina and Ryan’s fearless bridal session. Kristina was up for all that we asked, even getting into the icy cold water at Devil’s Lake for some amazing shots.

Here is just a taste, believe me when I say that we’ve got plenty more for you!

What a gorgeous day! Who knew that October in Wisconsin would be in the upper eighties temperature wise and utterly gorgeous?! We’ve been blessed, that’s all I can say.

We shot our last wedding of the season yesterday and while I haven’t had a change to go through the hundreds of shots to pick my favs yet, we went out today with a photographer friend of mine, Erin from Melissa Grace Gallery, and swapped family shots! I’ve been wanting to get family shots done for a while now, and this was the perfect chance. We met up out at South Shore and took a little walk. Little miss E was hilarious! She’s used to being the perfect model, and definitely let me know when pictures were done, lol.

I had so much fun, and had to share some of my favs from today, including a few of Jamie, notice the poor little eye. Of course she would get attacked by a mosqito the day before our family shoot! Those mosquitos love her, and she ends up looking just a bit like Quasimodo, poor baby.

I’ve got a ton to share, so expect more this week!

Where do I start about Joe and Sara?

So much love. Joe and Sara’s every little touch brings a smile to my face.

The church was amazing, it had giant origami cranes outside, and was so gorgeous inside!

Even though it was over 100 degrees on their wedding day, they and their awesome wedding party were troopers, especially when we drove down to the capital and found several other bridal parties with the same idea. I do believe that we had the best group, though. Plus, how many other brides can say that the State Street brat man came up to try to steal them away?

Check out the love that Joe and Sara share with every touch, I hope you’ll be as moved as I was.

Of course, you knew I had to end with my very favorite shot, right?!

This post has been a long time coming. I can not believe how swamped I’ve been lately. This is from Jamie’s one year old photoshoot. I wanted something fun, bright and I definitely wanted to utilize my own high chair. Oh yeah, this baby is totally vintage, notice how we tied Jamie to it so she wouldn’t fall out? I’m so happy that her birthday is in July, it made being outside and getting messy so much easier and a lot more fun, especially once I brought in my love of the flare.

Surprisingly, she wanted nothing to do with the cake, at least until she started eating the frosting.

I’d love to shoot your little one’s special day. Just contact brie@realphotographyrealpeople.com or call us at 608.434.5468.

As always, I love to hear what you have to say so leave me a comment (even if it’s just to introduce yourself), it really makes my day!