Wirken Photography Blog

So, as some of you know our house is a mixed one. I grew up celebrating Hanukkah in my family, and Tyler was a Christmas kid. We enjoy this time of year to the fullest! I love every aspect of it! However, no matter how hard I try the kids just do not get as [...]

As some of you know Wirken Photography has gotten a little sister. BoothBOOTH was created in Dallas by  some forward thinking photographers.  There is no booth out there with this kind of look, feel and quality. Just to give it a whirl we  donated our booth and services to the Visitation Church & School masquerade [...]

Okay, okay — I know that we owe you some weddings. I promise that the very next post will be something wedding related since we had an busy  October full of some awesome images! For now however I just have to share with you the wonderful chaos that is my life!   Alex has found his [...]

I have to tell you that this time of year has always been one of my favorites. This year tops them all. Nothing was more fun than watching Alex and Zach get into Halloween the way that they did. Watching them getting excited about dressing up and getting the candy…made me love it all over [...]

So, I am a few weeks behind on this post, but Alex turned 4 the end of August. We had his first “big boy” Nemo themed birthday party at our house mid-September. All his best buds came over to play in our bounce house, pound the pinata and eat lots of sugar! Enjoy some of [...]

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 was [...]

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 like [...]

For those of you who do not know Kenny Chesney — he wrote a song called “There goes my life”. It deals with emotional changes you go through as a parent as your kids grow up. This week was that for me. Tyler and I have had a lot of firsts once we had kids, [...]

As some of you may know, the Wirken clan just went on a family vacation. With two small kids a vacation is not something you do too often and you want to make the most of every moment because of that. This trip turned out to be more than I could have hoped for. We [...]