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Shooting in the country with Lisa

First of all, let me introduce Lisa! Lisa is a super-sweet girl that I’ve had the privilege to become friends with since I’ve lived in Wichita. She also happens to be an incredible photographer herself! She even made ME look good when I took my turn in front of the camera! After some scouting, we settled in for a while at a random shed on my dad’s property. The shed is one of the same places that I photographed back in college. This place needs no staging; so many random walls and areas were just perfect as is! For instance, the old machinery belt thing on the wall behind Lisa here? It was just there. How does that even happen?? Add a little bit of light and we were in business.

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Check out this next picture; doesn’t Lisa look like Lucy Liu here??

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We wanted to end the day in one of these canola fields, but we were really sad that we didn’t have strong enough sunlight for a glowy backlit look. Wanna know why? It was SO windy that day that the dust in the atmosphere made the sky hazy! Yes, we’re the kind of crazies that think it’s a good idea to go shooting in the country on the windiest day of the year.

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Found: Lawrence, Kansas

If you’ve ever read my blog before, you know how much I love Lawrence. So I’ll try to refrain from gushing. One really cool thing about Lawrence is its architectural character. Some of my favorite areas to shoot are around the coolest old buildings. When I was in Lawrence shooting Cassy and Dylan’s portraits, I discovered that someone has recently added a little extra character to some of the buildings I like to shoot around…

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Lawrence, Kansas: photographs

I just got home tonight from Lawrence, where I had the opportunity to photograph a beautiful wedding at Danforth Chapel on the KU campus. Taylor and Jacob held their reception at The Eldridge Hotel, which is by far one of my favorite wedding venues in Lawrence. I can’t say enough about how great the staff is to work with! They really make the entire experience so wonderful for the bride and groom, their guests, and even for me as their photographer. And the fact that their rooms are beautiful and super comfortable just completes the amazing Eldridge experience!

One of the coolest things about The Eldridge (and about Lawrence!) is its history. Though it was originally built in 1855 as The Free State Hotel, the building was burned down just a year later by pro-slavery invaders. The hotel was rebuilt with an extra floor, and they swore to build yet another floor each time the hotel was destroyed in the future.
Well, in 1863 William Quantrill rode into town from that crazy pro-slavery state to the east of us and burned our beautiful Lawrence to the ground. The hotel was rebuilt again and named after its rebuilder, Colonel Eldridge. The hotel’s seal and motto, “from ashes to immortality,” attest to Lawrencians’ determination to stand and fight for the rights and dignity of people everywhere.

How can you not love Lawrence?! What a cool place. Though the hotel has since been closed, reopened, rebuilt, and renovated several times, it retains its architectural grandeur. It’s really a beautiful building! I had the opportunity to make a few images of some of its details while Taylor and Jacob’s guests were in the ballroom, happily dancing the night away.

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I love how on this last one, you can see each of the years that the hotel was built.

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If you’re interested, you can read the complete story of The Eldridge Hotel’s history on their website.
Photos from Taylor and Jacob’s wedding day are coming up next!

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