Wirken Photography Blog

Expressive people are the easiest ones to photograph.  To communicate what a subject is feeling and make the photo as powerful as the depth of feeling in real life- that is one of the toughest challenges of photojournalism.  Caroline and Peter made it easy on me.  They are so passionate and expressive.  They look at [...]

Here are a few bits about Jayne and Kelly that I like: At our first meeting, Jayne and I went on a long rabbit trail about design and style blogs for a good many minutes, and we both left with new urls to stalk. At our third meeting, Kelly showed up at the studio with [...]

  Yesterday as Jewel and I shot Karin and JC’s wedding, we looked at each other several times saying, “how sweet are they?!”  and I think we might have even had a few tears as we photographed Karin and JC committing themselves to one another and celebrating with their dearest friends and family.  Today I [...]

Matt didn’t tell me this (he’s a humble guy) but I learned it from his best man’s toast- that he was a 4 time State Championship hockey player.  So it might seem funny that one of the words that comes to mind most when I think about these two is sweetness.  They are both kind, [...]

The importance of friends and family comes to mind when thinking about Lisa and Keith and their wedding. It was obvious that Lisa and Keith value their friendships as well as their families.  In fact it was hard to tell sometimes who was a friend and who was family which I found wonderful.  They even [...]

Annie’s love of life is infectious. Bobby’s devotion is endless. The honor of documenting the union of these two, their caring family and friends, and their enthusiasm for their faith has been inspiring. It’s not often we see a couple so focused, so devoted and also so jubilant about life. It was a pleasure to [...]

I just spent another amazing week at Roots Workshop in Cape Cod teaching as well as soaking in some well needed r and r. I am normally one of the first ones to leave the workshop house and take that bittersweet trip back home to Kansas City. This year though Pam and the boys met [...]