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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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"What's the point of an After-Shoot?"

This is a question I get all of the time, and different photographers have a lot of different answers.   I can't answer for them as I am not them.

What I can tell you are my reasons for offering After-Shoot sessions and perhaps my reasons will help you determine if you would like to do one with me.

These are, by the way, in order of importance.
  1. Your wedding day can be even more your WEDDING day, not a photo shoot with a wedding in the middle.   I can't stress this enough, in fact, I just decided to make this reason 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5.   If you're getting married and the ceremony is the most important aspect of your wedding to you, call me.  I want to shoot your wedding!  In fact, call me right now.
  2. see #1.
  3. see #1.
  4. see #1.
  5. see #1.
  6. There's not enough time in your wedding day schedule for an adequate portrait time as a couple.  This very strongly relates to #1.  I want you to have the wedding day you want to have, not the one I think would be best for "pictures".
  7. There's a location significant to your relationship that is not involved in your wedding day.
  8. You love my portrait images.  This applies whether I photograph your wedding or not!
  9. You're afraid of getting a little dirty on your wedding day.  I never aim to ruin a dress, but it will get a little dirty in the process.
  10. see #1.

Justin and Gina rocked their After-Shoot!  Thanks, Justin and Gina!


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Bang.

Tim
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LaJeanna Eckhoff:

Love these! If you all don't mind I would love to have a few for the Boutique.

(07.27.09)
Dr. Jerod Ochsendorf:

Justin, congrats man!!! Where you at these days???

(08.12.09)
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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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