Judd Sather Photography Blog

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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As you can imagine with 12 photographers, 40+ weddings a year, and session requests rolling in, the day-to-day studio operations were getting a little much for me. So in May we promoted our designer extraordinaire, Allison (below with her favorite pose idea book and tending to Dom’s flying hair), to full time studio manager & designer. Joe will continue as our award-winning primary video editor (as well as photographer), and Josh will be helping with photo & video editing as well as our “staff of light” specialist (picture below). These changes have freed me up to meet the demand of our expanded high school senior and family portrait sessions! Below are some fun shots of us from some of our recent sessions. Happy 4th everyone!

Ella, Sophie, and Maxwell came over Sunday for Ella’s 1 year pictures and the kid is so cute I could have seriously stopped after 5 minutes of shooting. But I took about 150 more and got this fun one of Sophie on the rope swing and Maxwell and Sophie searching for frogs in the grass. It’s more fun than I imagined to chronicle the lives of growing children; this is the fourth time this family has been to the studio for pictures! -Judd

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Click here to view Dan and Bethany’s engagement guestbook from shots in downtown Stillwater this spring.
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Dan and Bethany & wedding party braved the humidity today to get some fun shots on the Stone Arch Bridge and beautiful Oak Ridge Conference Center in Chaska. They got married in a small Lutheran church in Minneapolis where they met in Sunday school class where Dan’s dad, Bob, was the pastor. Bob made a funny quip during the toasts that Bethany still owed a couple sermon notes from when she was in confirmation class (Dan had perfect attendance for confirmation class that year!). The Stone Arch Bridge always yields great photos as well as colorful characters! This gentleman below tipped his cap for the camera. The pictures in front of the fireplace at Oak Ridge were made possible by a nicely placed coffee table that I propped up with my feet while sitting on the ground to get the top of the huge smokestacks out of the fireplace. This was an HD fusion video wedding for us as well, so we’ll post that edited video here when it is ready in a few weeks! -Judd & Jessi

Jessi caught this cool image of Bethany while she was being bustled (the image of Dan looking through the window at her was when he realized that dresses can “transform” magically.) Bethany’s reflection happened to be close enough to get in the shot.











And their highlight video!

This weekend was a blast! Josh, Troy and I captured some traditional Nigerian wedding celebrations and couldn’t have had more fun doing so. We tasted great food, danced to fun music and saw beautiful authentic dresses. Everyone was very genuine and down to earth and understood us “men in black” aren’t necessarily familiar with the culture 🙂

Bisi & Kossy had an amazing ceremony Saturday at the Cathedral in St. Paul and we got some great shots along the river. Kudos to Kossy on the height during our jumping shot! Another highlight was having dollars thrown at us during the celebration, check out Josh’s expression. As we ran out at the end of the night to get a send off video, the New Jerseyian was a little tuckered out!

Congratulations Bisi & Kossy! – Joe, Josh & Troy

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