Well my goal of writting a blog post every tuesday this summer has been shot now that my little girl has arrived.
Adalie Michele Dettmann (Adalie is pronounced similar to Natalie just take off the A)
Born: 8/1/10 @ 8:02
weight: 7lbs 14 oz
Length: 20 in
Attitude: feisty

She is a ball of cute and when she was born she had her arm wrapped around her head thus making the delivery very difficult. She has her moments but when she is up she is extremely talkative and wants to have your attention. As I write this right now she is in a moby wrap so I have two free hands (for now). If you have been receiving emails from me and you realize that I don’t capitalize or punctuate my typing properly that is because I’m becoming very proficient at writing out emails with only one hand!

This experience has been quite the shift for me, as many people told me time and time again, you just will never know how much work it takes until it happens to you. Which is true, I was expecting that life would go back to normal after the first two weeks. I could sit at my computer uninterrupted while Adalie nap’s quietly in the background. Not so much, yet somehow the work still gets done and all of my self imposed deadlines are more than met. At first I was stressed out about how I was going to manage and then someone gave me some great slap upside the back of your head advice “Normal will never happen again as you know it, get used to the “new” normal and you will be ok”

So this is my quest of the New normal which includes many diaper changes, waking up extremely early while she is sleeping to edit photos, holding her while responding to client emails and helping my wife as much as possible in the in-between times while she is trying to study for her last year of law school.

I’ll leave you with a couple of cute images we took out in our back yard.

Share on Facebook

I know another one of my catchy titles: I picked this one up while I was shooting a clients wedding in Ireland this past spring. I do have to say the Irish have some great one liners but onto the point….
Most people have no clue how to write a best man or maid of honor [...]

Share on Facebook

Yesterday I received an email inquiring if I had a date open for wedding photography. Reply: Yes.
Today I received a phone call at 9:43 from a really nice Girl (the one who emailed me) by 9:46 she confirmed to book a her wedding photography with me. Three total minutes of interaction and now I’m shooting [...]

Share on Facebook

I am a firm believer that in order to excel in anything you must have a great many skills to accompany that one thing you are excelling at. That brings me to the title of my article “photographer meet my swiss army knife”. Many of you know me personally and many only professionally, I’ll dive [...]

Share on Facebook

I was talking with my friend (one of the worlds best wedding videographers, not exaggerating) Matt Brue of Capture Studios based out of Minneapolis a couple of weeks back and he struck a chord that resonated inside of me. He said “our generation is different, we want to know everything about someone before we are [...]

Share on Facebook

This week it is going to be a short one folks, Why might you ask? Well, its wednesday and I forgot to write out my sweet blog post yesterday thus short but sweet today.
This week we are talking about the phrase, when life hands you lemons make lemonade. As a wedding photographer many times I [...]

Share on Facebook

Ireland… Its like driving to door county to shoot a wedding, except for the unique accents and a couple of customs checks. Some of you may recall the Volcanic ash northern europe and a large part of the world was affected by early this spring. Well I was almost one of those people. On April [...]

Share on Facebook

Catchy title I know, but its true. I for one didn’t always like “shooting” taking pictures of babies. They are so unpredictable and when they get upset they just start crying. Not to mention getting peed on is the grossest thing every (well almost) See the picture below of one of my clients being graced [...]

Share on Facebook

Summer is upon us YippEEEEEEE

(steve rocking the wake surfing!)
Anyways I’m  making a commitment, yes a commitment to make your tuesdays a bit brighter. How will I do this? its quite simple, I’m vowing for the next three months to blog every tuesday.
So put an alarm in your calendar, tuesday stalk the capfoto blog!
What will our [...]

Share on Facebook

Very few times in your life are you presented to do work for friends you have not seen in a long time. I have the opportunity to do just that and shoot my friend from high school’s re-wedding ceremony. Her Husband Cliff and her were actually married one year prior, but had their real wedding [...]

Share on Facebook