Little Cowgirl

What a fun one year old session! Mom is horse crazy so we had to incorporate Victoria's girly personality with moms western flare. The resulting birthday invite is one of my all time favorites!

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Lifestyle Session: Winter with the Horses

Lifestyle Family Sessions are all about You and Your Family in your Real Life

Erich's family are horse lovers so we decided the best way to capture their real life was to photograph them with their horses. I wanted to capture not only what this family looks like but what they felt like when they are enjoying time with each other and their much loved equine family because that is the most important thing about family photos:

the feeling of connection and love.

Want to know more about our Lifestyle Family Sessions? Contact Ruth today!

summer is coming and sessions at the lake, on the water and at Grandma's house are very popular!

Lost Creek Calendars are Here!

Perfect for the horse or animal lover in your life! 100% of the proceeds from this calendar directly benefit the rescue horses at Lost Creek Ranch- a non profit horse rescue located in Ellsworth, WI.

Calendars are 13 months (through Jan.2011)and are $20 each.

Order from Ruth directly (ruth@happilyeveraterphoto.com) or use PayPal and order from the ranch: http://www.lostcreekranch.info/

Lost Creek 2010

Happy Holidays 2009!

Happy Holidays from the studio! Thanks for a great season with so many unique weddings and fun loving couples. Our family/ babies/ kids sessions in 2009 were a blast too-

these kids just keep getting cuter!

If you are newly engaged and planning your wedding here are some helpful links to past weddings here on our Blog- enjoy!

Winter Weddings

Spring Weddings

Summer Weddings

Fall Weddings

and some more popular links:

downtown Minneapolis

downtown St. Paul

Twin Cities outdoor weddings and receptions

Rainy Days: Fun wedding photos in the rain!

just a few more:

Water & lake shore wedding photos

Twin Cities Engagement Photos

album design (page spreads from recent albums)

and we can't forget Facebook!

thousands of photos from our 2009 weddings are on our Facebook page.

Check it out and click the "photos" tab to see what we've been up to:

Facebook: Happily Ever After

Family Lifestyle Session: Horse Lovers

It is always a pleasure to be invited to photograph a family and it is especially nice to photograph them in their real life surroundings doing what they love.

This is Lifestyle Photography at its best!

Kary and I met on Facebook when she commented on some of my equine work, a conversation started and before long I was packing up for Cross Lake! (no one told me it would be 19 degrees for our trail ride or I might have though twice...)

True horse-people that they are Kary and her family own eight beautiful horses! We were able to incorporate them all in different shots as well as some non horsey images with the entire family. I hope you can sense the love and respect this family has for each other, animals and nature in these images.

LOVE the white eyelashes!

Cutest couple ever!

Snowy Day: Sally & Sienna

The first snow of the year came just in time for this very sweet session in Cross Lake, MN. Sienna is a lovely, lively Arabian who was very affectionate and sweet during our session but really she just wondered why she couldn't be running around in her paddock with her buddies... so at one point she took off and trotted all the way to her gate and waited for Sally to catch up!

photographed at Four Winds Horse Center in Brainerd, MN. What a wonderful facility!

Loving Grace

Grace is Terri's stunning mare! What a beautiful, sweet horse! Don't you love her fuzzy winter coat? What a lucky pair!

Women and the Horses they Love

Over this past fall and winter I have had the opportunity to photograph some beautiful horses and their people. Here are some of my favorites.

Many of these sessions were photographed at Lost Creek Ranch in Ellsworth, WI where I have had an amazing year learning to ride and living my girlhood dream of having my very own horse. If you are interested in horses or have kids who are this is a must see place!