Wirken Photography Blog

I met Denise and Dan the week of their wedding, though I had come to know them vicariously through Denise’s mom in previous months.  the night of the rehearsal dinner, hearing stories from the friends and family that love them most, and watching their sweet affection with one another, I fell in love with these [...]

This was a wedding that I had been looking forward to for a long time. Carrie and I go way back. I met her years ago through her good friend Morgan whose wedding we shot.  From there the relationship just bloomed.  Carrie and Morgan are terribly talented graphic artists and have helped us over the [...]

My dear brother Ben welcomed me to his hometown San Francisco last weekend.  I gave myself a break and took only pictures with the  SX-70 Polaroid camera that he had given me for my birthday.    Polaroid cameras are magic to me in their ability to emphasize the fleeting nature of a moment.  You shoot the [...]

As some of you may remember we just had our first in a series of workshops that we hope to host for the serious amateur photographer out there. The basic  idea is to offer multiple workshops throughout the year targeted to help non-professionals get better at documenting the everyday. Well our first “Normal Day” WIRKshop [...]

I got to meet Gabriel Graff when he was ten days old, but here’s a look back to August when he was just a little bun in the oven.

Family is what we are all about. We love when families welcome us into their lives and let us document important moments for them. It is even better when we get to be there for years and years of “firsts” in their lives. The wedding of Rachel and Greg came to us through Becca. Much [...]

So I inherited the Gyllenborg family from Tyler.  He photographed Kristin and Matthew’s wedding a few years ago, and they have always been one of our beloved Wirken families.  When Tyler found out he would be out of town for Lauren and Justin’s wedding, he was truly sad, and I was hoping that I could [...]

There is something special about getting out of town to shoot a wedding- everything is new to my eyes, and I have this kind of sense of solitude- being away from places and people that I know.  That combined with the total trust and excitement that I received from Niki and Andrew really lent itself [...]

Trying to figure out the best words to put down when describing this day has been hard. I have written and re-written this a ton and still am not doing it the justice that it deserves. I am not a words-man (did I just make that word up?), but rather a picture-man. Please bare with [...]