Wirken Photography Blog

Just after New Years was the wedding of Laci and Ryan.  A wonderful, down to earth couple that I have not known very long, but that did not matter. Very quickly they let me into  their lives and I was able to shoot their day with no inhibitions. With just one meeting before their wedding [...]

Annie and Victor’s wedding wrapped up a really wonderful season of weddings for me.  As I kicked my feet up the day after my last wedding of the year, and thought about the night, I just could not get over how moved I was by several elements from this wedding- particularly Victor’s toast to Annie [...]

I would like to introduce to you a new direction we are currently going in with our wedding photography storytelling.
The key word here is baby steps.  This is one of the first attempts of mine at using multi-media to tell a better story.  I have always felt that the combination of still photos and audio [...]

Emily and Johnny and I got connected through mutual friends, David and Holly, who’s wedding I photographed two Decembers ago.  Last night these two came to the studio and we watched their warm winter wedding slideshow for the first time.  At the end of the night, I felt the same way that I did about [...]

You all saw a preview post of Katie and Matt’s wedding a while back.  Well their show is now ready.
Thanks again you guys for everything!  Sit back, grab some popcorn, maybe a tissue or two and enjoy the rest of the images!
Tyler

Friends, Hello, and Happy New Year!
I am excited to share another wedding after a long break from the blog over the crazy-busy holidays!
Staci and Robert.  Let me share a few of my favorite impressions of these two.  During our engagement session, they cracked me up.  I specifically remember Robert disarming the awkwardness of getting started [...]

What a joy it was to document another Shaw family wedding.
A couple of years ago I had the pleasure of documenting the first wedding of the Shaw family.  Sarah and Art.
I quickly became very fond of the Shaw’s.  It really was such a joy to watch their family dynamic again as the second of three [...]

Alright, Alright.  I normally title my posts with the couple’s first names, but I couldn’t resist the French-Italian poetic hyphenation of LeClaire-DeCelles.  Stephanie’s dad joked about the flowery nature of the combination of their two names in his toast, and I agree that it’s both notable, and nice to say.
Stephanie and Nick will be forever [...]

I think of engagement sessions as a kind of first date between me and my couples.  Michaela, Patrick and I had a really really good first date.  After shooting pictures for a few hours, we ended up sitting out on their back patio drinking wine as they brought out pictures of Patrick’s proposal and shared [...]

Kansas City:  the biggest small town in America.
I have heard this so many times and so many times I find myself amazed at how true that statement really is.
My relationship with these two has gone from common interests to me having quite the emotional moment behind the camera that moved me to tears.  More on [...]