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Are you ALIVE? I love SHOOTING PEOPLE with a camera, click.  I love wine, good music (I stay far away from the "Top 40"), great art and LIFE.  In fact, I love life so much that it compels me capture it professionally with a camera, but if you stick around you might catch me catching life with video and audio as well.

This brings me to the most important question that I have for you:  Are you ALIVE, not just breathing and eating, but LIVING?  

If you answered YES, we should talk, I want to capture it (your life that is).  If you're just an eater and breather, give LIVING a shot, we'll all be dead soon enough.
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Hi there, I'm Jill, the other part of Tim Larsen Photography.  I take care of the accounts for Tim.  I'm making my blogging debut with an awesome deal!

I just started thinking about our winter wedding season (yes, in the midst of summer) and Tim has shot some pretty awesome and beautiful weddings in the winter months.  

Know anybody that just got engaged and is planning a winter wedding?  It really is my favorite time of year and if I could go back in time, I would have had a winter wedding.  Love, love, love the thought of them.  White lights, snowflakes, greenery = BEAUTIFUL!  Now there are not as many people who feel this way, therefore, it is a slower season here and that is why you are in luck......we're offering a 20% discount on all creative fees for the months of January, February and March.  Yep, that can add up to hundreds of dollars with the same amount of WOOT! WOOT! Tim provides!  In addition, if your wedding is on a Friday, you would get an additional 10% discount.

Contact us by clicking the contact button in the upper right, or at 218-833-2660, we'd love to hear from you!  

Here are a few (I had trouble narrowing it down) of my favorite images from some winter weddings Tim has done.

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Jill



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Hey everybody, I have some new contact info!   Keep in mind that all of my old contact info will still work, but I would greatly appreciate it if you would use the new contact info to get in touch with me.

Phone:  218-833-2660
Email: shootmetim (at) gmail (dot) com  
Mail: P.O. Box 269 | Brainerd, MN | 56401

Sorry about the way I entered my email address, but I'm sure you can figure it out.

Thanks

Tim

PS - Edna Valley Pinor Noir is great wine for a summer campfire!


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My last two posts have been pretty heavy and I couldn't think of a better post to be more lighthearted and fun than Preston and Aimee's superawesometastic engagement session!  We had a ton of fun, first at Preston's family business where I could have shot all day long because it was so interesting, but to add on to that we then went wakeboarding on Pelican Lake!

Preston and Aimee, enjoy... and thank you!

Preston was kinda worried about this whole process, but he rocked it along with Aimee and her fantastic dress.
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Off onto Pelican Lake for some sun and wakeboard!     
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Ummm....   diamonds on the lifejacket, it doesn't get any more perfect for a wakeboarding engagement session.
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This takes mad skills...
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Aimee and Preston, after an engagement session like this, I can't wait for your wedding!


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Kraig Leuthard:

These are the coolest engagement pictures I have ever seen! We can't wait for the wedding.....and I want that boat.

(07.10.09)
Kristi Shanks:

Love the pictures! Wondering Tim: Where were you standing??? Awesome job.

(07.13.09)
Tim:

@Kristi, just walking on the water! Actually, I am in the water, it was an awesome engagement session to shoot! Bang.

(07.13.09)
Aimee Eklund:

Hi Tim! We received the pictures and they are incredible! The hand in hand picture between the pallets is AMAZING. Can't wait to have you shoot our wedding!

(07.20.09)
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A little about my family, I have a wonderful wife and two little girls at the writing of this blog post.  Everyday when I am with them my humanity screams that I don't deserve these wonderful people in my life.  I haven't done anything and nothing that I could ever do could make me DESERVE their presence in my life.  If my humanity makes me certain of this, then they can only be one thing, gifts.   

Even more, their freedom, which is based on their humanity, prevents me from ever owning them or having them as my possession, because they can or God can choose to take their presence from me at any time.  Therefore not only are they gifts, but every single day with them is a gift.   The fact that they are gifts necessitates a giver, and when I truly see this reality I am overwhelmed with love and with the question of life, who.

As I reflect on my first meeting Erik, McKenna and their daughter Adison at their engagement shoot at St. Anthony's Main, this is what I remember striking me.

Our time together started with all three of them to capture the sense of their family and once Adison had had enough of me, Erik, McKenna and I continued on for a little bit to capture a sense of them as a couple.

Enjoy...


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McKenna and Erik...  thank you.

Tim
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Chelsie:

Tim! I love these... and love what you wrote about your girls... St. Anthony Main is a great place to shoot. I love the way everyone shoots there differently. The possibilities are endless. Great Job and i hope you're having an excellent summer!

(07.09.09)
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If you came to me and said, "Do you think I am in love?"  Without knowing you at all, even if I had never met you, I'd say, "Nope, you're not in love.  You won't have to ask anybody when you're in love, you will KNOW!"

If you are or have been in love and I came to you and said, "Love isn't a thing, it isn't a thing because you can't explain it to me, and I can't make myself be in love."  You'd either think I am crazy or you would have pity on me for having never experienced being in love.  But you certainly wouldn't say, "Huh, you're right, love doesn't exist, how could I have been so dumb, thinking I am in love"

True knowledge, the kind that changes who we are and what we value, the kind of knowledge that changes our lives and how we live doesn't lie in the world detectable by our senses.  Rather the only true knowledge is an affective knowledge that can only be gained through experience, by judging our own life against the needs of our humanity.  

What are the needs of our humanity?  Our need for beauty, truth, goodness, justice, love and all of the things that we can never get too much of.   I like pizza, I like music, I like wine, I like my job but there comes a point when I say, "Okay, enough pizza, enough music, enough wine, enough work."   But you'll never hear me say, "Okay that's enough beauty, can I have some ugliness please."

These convoluted past 4 paragraphs are the fruit of me trying to answer the "Why photography?" question again.   Photography allows me the detachment, the circumstance and the deliberateness to look.

Justin and Gina, thank you for bringing me to the beauty of yourselves, your friends and family and your relationship.

Enough blathering Tim!  Show me some pictures already!

My day started at Crosswoods Golf Course in Crosslake with Justin and his friends, followed by the ladies and gentlemen getting ready at Gina's family cabin.
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The ladies finished getting ready at the beautiful new Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Crosslake, MN
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Whoa, beauty alert.... if you've had too much beauty today look away because pictures of a beautiful bride with a great personality are coming up.
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I love this image, we've all been there.
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Time to get married!
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Apparently the flower girl need a better seat.
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We made a stop at Moonlight Bay in Crosslake.  Well, Justin's nickname is "Snake", and well this guy in the purple hat, hilarious wig and rockin' ACDC t-shit is also called "Snake", so both "Snakes" decided to arm-wrestle over who's the biggest "Snake."



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A cocktail hour was held at Gina's parent's beautiful cabin.  This is where LaJeanna at Social Butterfly just begins to show her mad wedding-planning skills!
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Justin, you've got a good one!  Taking time for wii bowling, a beer and your little brother on her wedding day!
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The reception was held at Breezy Point Resort's beautiful new reception facility on the shore of Pelican Lake.  More of LaJeanna's beautiful work.
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I beg that my girls can be like this one day, they're one (Lauren) and three (Grace) right now.
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Even though Justin and Gina danced first, Gina and her father are the one who kicked off the partaaaaaayy.
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Dang, that ring is HUGE!
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Gina and Justin, you guys are awesome, your friends and family are awesome, thank you for letting me be with you on your wedding day.

Tim

P.S.

If any potential brides are looking for:
a great videographer look here:  http://videonpros.com/
a great wedding planner look here:  http://socialbutterflymn.com
a great florist: http://limegreenery.com
a great reception location with great views of Pelican Lake: http://breezypointresort.com

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LaJeanna Eckhoff:

Great photos Tim - always a pleasure working with you! Thanks to Gina & Justin for allowing me to be a part of their special day - she looks amazing. I do have to give a shout out to Sarah at Lime Greenery for the beautiful floral & to the whole staff at Breezy Point!

(07.02.09)
tjlarsen:

Great point LaJeanna! Blog post is edited to add Lime Greenery and Breezy Point Resort for their awesometasticness!

(07.02.09)
Matt:

Tim- I am sure you are busy...but had to comment on the photo on the dance floor. The picture of the bride with her ring hand in the foreground....WOW!!! That photo can sum up the whole day (awesomeness), and I wasn't even there. You have accomplished in one picture the emotion of the whole day...you epitomize wedding photojournalism!

(07.02.09)
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