Judd Sather Photography Blog

Tom and Anna’s wedding links:
Wedding Album Pre-design
Link to all pictures (The EVENT KEY is Anna’s maiden name – Tom and Anna will release these after they have seen them all first)
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What a fun day to capture Tom and Anna’s wedding since I know them well – I played baseball with Tom in college. We started out finding some creative spots for images since there was two-story scaffolding in the church at the time we wanted to start pictures. That’s when we did the shots below of Anna in front of the old school door (she had a sandwich in her hand BTW!) Some of my other favorite shots are below: The 200 year-old necklace Anna wore, Tom’s dad singing with emotion during the ceremony, the shot of the sun rays coming down into Anna’s flowers (Aron got that one), the “booty bus” RV complete with rose petals on the bed, reservoir dogs on the Stone Arch Bridge, this cool loading dock location that was Tom’s idea, groom’s assistant Alexia, and the first dance at the spacious Union Depot. We snuck in a surprise same-day slideshow of images during the reception which is becoming a staple of our service. Fun to see Tom and Anna’s reaction to that! -Judd and Aron

Shawn and Amy had a great group of people surrounding them on their wedding day. There were family and friends supporting them and sharing stories throughout the day. Let’s get another round of applause for the 63 years of marriage for grandma and grandpa! We took some amazing photos today capitalizing on the beautiful blue sky that covered us all day long. With some cooperation, we also accomplished a great pyramid on the tee box! Check out Amy’s rock star pose 🙂 Later in the evening we decided some friendly bean bag toss would help generate great sunset shot ideas… and it did! Check out the amazing shot of the newly weds as the sun was setting. – Joe & Chad

Shawn and Amy’s wedding links:
Wedding Album Pre-design
Link to all pictures (The EVENT KEY is Amy’s maiden name – Shawn and Amy will release these after they have seen them all first)
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Tim and Nikki’s wedding links:
Engagement Guestbook Album

Wedding Album Pre-design
Link to all pictures (The EVENT KEY is Nikki’s maiden name – Tim and Nikki will release these after they have seen them all first)
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The McNamara Alumni Center is an amazing place to capture a wedding; especially for a one-of-a-kind couple like Tim and Nikki. Nikki had these amazingly unique red accents on her dress that just popped out at your eyes. I’m pretty sure Tim didn’t stop smiling the whole day until I asked him to do some “serious” pictures. I always strive to take 3-5 pictures at each wedding that I have NEVER taken before. It really challenges us and gives our clients unique images that no one else will have. As you can imagine after 8 years of weddings, we’ve pretty much exhausted the unique fun/natural/happy shots we always do that our clients love. So, I can feel myself digging deeper with the couple and venues to create some really cool images and we nailed some really cool ones as Tim and Nikki were totally up for it – fun stuff! We even went rogue with the help of best man Matthias and stepped into the almost complete TCF stadium for the Gophers. Man is that place going to be nice for games this fall. It was great at this wedding to see so many of my former math students and baseball / football players too; even Neil Cooper, the construction supervisor who kicked us out of the stadium! -Judd and Josh

We were honored to be invited to Minnesota Bride Magazine’s Best of 2009 Awards this year at Dinky Town’s Varsity Theatre . It was a great time and we enjoyed meeting many great wedding vendors. I think it is safe to say that everyone there will remember Studio J after seeing Judd dance to Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean and us jumping in and out of the photo booth! Here’s one of the pictures! In order, Josh (Photo Editor/Photographer), Allie (Studio Manager/Designer), Joe (Photographer/Videographer) and Judd (Boss Man and Head Photographer). Check out the nominees.– Josh & Allie

You saw the “behind the scenes” of the shoot in the previous post and now here are the pictures! We had a blast during the senior shoot and Dom was up for anything. We found a lot of hidden spots for pictures in downtown Minneapolis including a waterfall, luckily none of us fell in! Dom is going to be a senior at North High School and is one of our 2010 senior ambassadors. -Allie

Many photographers have trouble taking pictures of their own family – kind of like the barber that can’t cut his own hair very well… now that I think about it a little more – maybe not actually. Anyway, it’s difficult to get 3 boys under the age of 7 to do much together (bribery was involved…), but here are some of the fun shots of them from a walk around downtown Stillwater with the family on a great July summer day. Kudos to my lovely wife for the giant lollipop idea!

Happy 4th! Tom & Stacy were very laid back and a blast to be around. We started the day off with a thunderstorm rolling through that threatened our day, but soon passed. After a beautiful ceremony under a huge tent at Stone Ridge Golf Course, we took off for the famous “barn” for some fun shots. The rustic aesthetic makes for some memorable photographs! With the sun shining, we took a creative shot of their shadows in the middle of a fairway. At the end of the night, what’s better than fireworks and dancing!? -Joe and Josh

Here is their wedding album!
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