Welcome 2010!

Welcome 2010!

Thanks to all our amazing clients, wonderful friends and loving family for a great 2009!

We had a very successful year. We photographed 24 weddings and each was wonderful . New clients brought new friends and great times :)

A few highlights from the year:

First was attending The Mid-America Institute of Professional Photography (MAIPP) with my friend Jenni Hahn (www.jennihahnphotography.com). We had so much fun on our week stay in Iowa learning from Masters of photography. I studied under Chris Carlson (www.carlsonphotography.biz) from Wisconsin. It was well worth the 14 hour drive.

In June, Chris went part-time with FourFront to become more involved with the studio. It was so nice to be able to work with each other during the week and on the weekend for weddings. We also had two amazing interns from Black Hills State University. We enjoyed the extra help and creative input and hope they learned lots as well.

In late July we packed up our Subaru and headed for the East Coast to photograph a wedding in Washington DC! We took the long way... and found our selves camping in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on Twelve-Mile Beach. SHHH.... This is suppose to be a hidden secret, but it was so breath taking it is hard to describe how peaceful, relaxing and uncrowded the campground and beach were.

We arrived in Fairfax, Va a few days early to play tourists before the wedding. Washington DC is somewhere everyone must go in their lifetime. The monuments are amazing and huge! It is like you are walking around an empire.

Our whole experience was wonderful as both Sara & Andrew and their families were very accommodating and treated us just like family.

In the fall, Chris created LaRvArT (www.larvart.com). It is truly amazing what he can do with great images, perfect lighting and details.

Our biggest and most exciting decision of 2009 was closing our first studio location. I was so overloaded with the workload of our expanding business this fall. I am incredible thankful for it, but we’ve decided in order to accommodate our clients and be better photographers we needed more space.

So we will be putting our home up for sale in the next week and are currently looking for the next location for Black Hills Portraits! (We are definitely staying in Spearfish!)

I am looking forward to what 2010 will bring!

A year of experience and knowledge as I journey to Las Vegas with Erin Vossler (www.lifeinpicturephotography.com), Sara Munneke (www.studio5sd.com) & Jenni Hahn (www.jennihahnphotography.com) for the Wedding & Portrait Photographers
International (WPPI) convention!

A year of change as we open a new studio location and growth for our business. Lots of new sessions and products are in the works.

Time with our family, friends and clients will make 2010 our best year yet!

Wishing everyone the best for the New Year,

Loni & Chris LaRive

Here are just a few highlights from 2009! There are more on Facebook! As always, you can view more of our work on our website.