Hi!  We are Don and Robin Russ and we live in Lake Bluff.

We have been photographing weddings in the Lake Forest, Lake Bluff and Lake County area for two years.  A small selection from our recent work is posted to this website.  We enjoy this work and we would like you to know how we came to it.

 

When we were planning our marriage we wanted to know that we would have pictures.  We wanted good pictures and many of them, but we didn’t want to burden our guests with that chore, and we didn’t want to rely on them for the high quality images of all the key moments that happen just when they would be enjoying themselves most.  So we shopped for a pro.

 

Many professional photographers charge by the hour.  For weddings, they usually have a price for some number of hours and a per-hour rate for any excess hours, but it amounts to the same thing.  Some professional photographers retain ownership of the photographs they take, so after you pay them for their time you still must pay them for the photos.  A few professional photographers even demand “exclusivity” which prevents anyone else from taking photos.

 

We wanted a different approach..  We wanted the photographer to be vigilant throughout the entire series of events, always ready to capture the magic moments that pass so quickly and are so easily lost in the rapid succession of activities.  We wanted good pictures and many of them, but we also wanted the photographer to fit in to our group.  We wanted him to work unobtrusively.

 

And we didn’t want to watch the clock, nor did we want our pictures held for ransom.  We wanted the events to unfold naturally and easily and for hundreds of good photos to follow naturally and easily a few days later.  And that is what we now do for other couples.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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