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We're illuminare photography + cinematography and this blog/website serves as our initial meeting ground, allowing you to get to know us and our work a little better.  While we have a portfolio section and frequently post blog highlights from our weddings and portrait shoots, we also keep the blog rolling with a bunch of various photos and videos that we do for ourselves when we're out just having a good time.  We feel that it's important to share this side of ourselves and allow you to see who we are, how we work, and what we think is cool. 

So sit back, relax and have fun browsing around!  And if you feel that we'd be a good match for you, we'd love to hear from you!

Monthly Archives: July 2009

the koenen clan

Alyssa & Brian Koenen (Renee’s brother and sister in law)  came down for a weekend earlier this month and we just had to take advantage and get some photos with everybody together.   Whew!  A one year old and a two year old can sure use up some energy!  Not to fear, we had a blast...

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15K race-happy birthday me!

The too hot to handle 15K race was on July 18, the day after my birthday!  So I decided a few months back that my birthday present to myself would be the ability to run 9.3 miles!  The farthest I had run at one time before was 7 miles so I was a little nervous...

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nelo – the video

We posted the still photos of the nelo shoot.  So now here’s the awesome video that Bret did for them!  Enjoy!

nelo – Two Years Ago from illuminare on Vimeo.

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The Hefners

I had the pleasure of photographing the Hefners with their newest addition.  I shot Holden’s whole first year of photos and now it’s so cool to see him all grown up into a big kid! It was really sweet to watch him with his little brother, Hudson!  It was so cute!

I love shots of mom...

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nelo

We love trying new things and are always looking for new projects to get involved in.  A few months ago we started thinking about doing a video of a band singing and playing some of their favorite songs in a really casual setting.  Bret called an old friend who happens to be in the band ...

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Pathetic Puppy

We are puppy sitting this weekend for Renee’s dog Bo.   I used to spend a lot of time with Bo. Before I met Bret and Renee was traveling a lot more it seemed like I had him almost every weekend. He still loves coming over and hanging out with us!  I think even though...

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