the ashland ore dock

August 27, 2009   ·   4 comments   ·   tweet this   ·   share on facebook   ·   pin it

It has been a very fun August! Besides the weddings I shot this month (loved ‘em!), Jess and I actually had a week of vacation (and celebrated my birthday on that trip)! We spent our week in the Ashland/Bayfield area and it was great. I’ve got a lot of photos to process and get up yet I didn’t want to wait until they were all completed. I wanted to get something up sooner, so here’s the first set.

These photos are from the Soo Line ore dock in Ashland. Built in 1915, it became the largest ore dock in the country, at one point having a capacity 110,000 TONS of ore – that’s a heavy load (insert groan here…). Anyway – the rail cars would bring the iron ore out to the dock where it would be shoveled onto huge boats to be shipped off to Chicago and the like. It’s falling down now and they’ve decided to take it down. Luckily for us, some endangered birds nested there and kept it around long enough for us to see it before they start dismantling it. They fenced off more sections while were there, in prep for demolition, which they estimate will take about 1.5 years.

sarah + sean’s milwaukee engagement photography

August 8, 2009   ·   2 comments   ·   tweet this   ·   share on facebook   ·   pin it

I had the pleasure of working with Sarah for many years at my full time job. Before she left for another agency, she had meet this guy named Sean and they decided to get engaged. Needless to say, we were very excited for them both and wished them well. They gave me a call to do their engagement session and I was very excited to be able to do so.

The first half of the set comes from the courtyard were they were engaged. Very sweet!

Then they changed and we started to walk around Milwaukee. Didn’t need to get far before we found some neat architecture.

Congrats you two! Many blessings on your wedding and life together!