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PORTAGE PARK ENGAGEMENT PHOTOS | ASHLEY & MATT | DOOR COUNTY ENGAGEMENT PHOTOGRAPHERS

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Engagement

ASHLEY & MATT STURGEON BAY, WISCONSIN Ashley & Matt picked Portage Park as their engagement session location after seeing it on Andrea & Phillips’s Engagement Session. They’ve passed it many times riding to the Sturgeon Bay Lighthouse & Canal while visiting a friends lake house. They wanted a natural setting with beach vibes for their […]

Downtown Green Bay Branding Session | Maggie Mae

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Branding

Wardrobe Stylist Maggie Mae Green Bay, Wisconsin For Maggie Mae’s Downtown Green Bay Branding Session, we photographed inside the Bellin Building first thing in the morning. We were blessed with golden light filtering through the windows perfectly. It gave a little extra dynamic to the scenery with these gorgeous highlights and shadows in all the […]

Summer Vacation to the Badlands | South Dakota Photographer

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Personal

Our summer vacation to the Badlands started off with some cool August weather which surprised us a bit as we made our way from Wisconsin through Minnesota and into South Dakota. We stayed our first night in a sketchy hotel along the highway that Troy still swears was nice. Thirteen years later we still have […]

Family Vacation to Glen Arbor & Sleeping Bear Dunes

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This year we started school Labor Day weekend. We kicked off the year with a family vacation to Glen Arbor, Michigan. Where the first part taking a day trip to the Traverse City area and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. We took a drive up to the Mission Point Lighthouse where we played on the […]

Fonferek Glen Motherhood Session in De Pere | Green Bay Motherhood Photographer

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Motherhood

Fonferek Glen Motherhood Session A few weeks ago we were lucky enough to have a family session at Fonferek Glen Falls with the Kunkels. While we photograph a family I love to focus on every relationship within the family. Making sure to pay special attention to, each child, Mother & Child(children), Father & Child(children), and […]

Family Session at Fonferek Glen in De Pere

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Family

De Pere, Wisconsin A few weeks ago we were lucky enough to have a family session at Fonferek Glen Falls with the Kunkel’s. The family photos were inspired by Josh & Brittney’s 10th Wedding Anniversary and if you havn’t seen those photos yet, make sure you do! beautiful family session at Fonferek Glen Falls The […]

Anniversary Session at Fonferek Glen

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Anniversary

De Pere, Wisconsin Brittney and Josh had the wonderful idea of celebrating their 10 year wedding anniversary with an anniversary session at Fonferek Glen in De Pere, Wisconsin. The natural landscape and a bit of adventure is where these two feel right at home. Brittney and Josh an incredible couple with radiant souls and have […]

Group Graduation Session in De Pere

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Portraits

Osprey Point We had the opportunity to document NWTC’s latest class of Registered Dental Hygienists as a group graduation session in De Pere at Osprey Point. These ladies all deserve a huge Congratulations to Graduating with their RDH all during this wild pandemic. Our session was filled with champagne & flying caps. A little rain […]

Boonesfield Village Wedding

Our Boonesfield Village Wedding in Defiance, Missouri

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Personal

Danielle & Troy I’m taking the time today to re-blog this special day, not only because it was our wedding day but today is in fact our 10th Wedding Anniversary. Let me take a minute to let that sink in. I can’t believe it’s already been ten years since we became “The Helgesons,” at our […]

Maggie Mae’s Branding Session

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Branding

Downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin Maggie and I started doing branding sessions together every couple of weeks and we are having a blast. For Maggie Mae’s branding session we started in the Bellin Building where they have this incredibly perfect elevator scenario laid out perfectly for Maggie’s grand entrance. Maggie is such a fashion icon, I […]

Downtown Green Bay Branding Session with Maggie Mae

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Branding

Green Bay, Wisconsin Maggie and I meet once about every other week for a personal branding session. Each session allows for 2-3 looks at 3-4 locations that are all in close proximity. Doing this many looks and locations within an hour is obtainable because we have pre-shoot communication. Maggie and I discuss the look, mood, […]

Santa Claus stopped at The Helgesons

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Personal

On Christmas Eve while laying our heads down to sleep we heard a slight rustling around outside our home. When our security camera alerted me that something was outside our door. I ignored it because we had just let the dog in and sometimes there’s a delayed reaction. I really didn’t think Santa Claus had […]

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