Nathan Blomker & Marie Schmeling Blomker were married in the beautiful badlands of Medora, ND on August 13, 2011. It was another perfect summer wedding with warm sunshine, family and friends gathered around to witness Nathan and Marie unite in marriage. Congratulations to you both and it's so wonderful to hear how God continues to bless you. I wish you all the best in your future and thank you for choosing to have me capture this special day.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
Kadrmas Wedding Highlight
Gregg and Nicky were married on July 23, 2011 at Zion Lutheran Church in Bismarck, ND.
The weather was great with the shining and all their family and friends gathered around as
they pledged their love to one another. Gregg & Nicky you two are so happy and are Blessed
in so many ways! I'm so grateful I got to work with you both and I pray God will continue to
Bless you and watch over you both.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Hello December!
I'm simply amazed at how fast this year has slipped by. And jaw dropped that December starts tomorrow. The snow falling outside shows December, however my work says "Please can't it still be October?"
I was just telling my hubby the other night that I had such a productive day and listed all the things I accomplished and got done! He even said, "Wow that's great!" Then the dreaded, "What do you still have to do?" Ugh, my feeling of satisfaction with the days productivity was gone after realizing what still lays ahead.
Then I got right back at it again come the next day and still had a great day. I was really excited and wrote down all the projects that are still waiting for my attention; with it in the back of my mind that I'd like to have all of my projects to my clients by Christmas.
HELLO DECEMBER!!!! I've got a lot of work to do if I'm going to get this done by Christmas. I just want all my clients to know that I'm putting in lots of hours on the computer and trying to get things out as fast as I can.
But as it never fails nothing can work perfectly, don't get my wrong, I'm very thankful for the growing business and somethings do go right but I have a lot of trials and tests that I'm put up against. We took a trip out to see my sister and family, I was actually looking forward to the 10 hour/one way drive as it'd be a great time to edit. Needless to say; I edited from Dickinson to Jamestown and accomplished 10 minutes of wedding edit. I had to restart my computer over and over because the program kept "not responding". Then on the drive back I figured I'd try it again so from Fargo to Jamestown I tried again and only got 8 minutes edited in. The worst part is those clips where pre-ceremony picture footage! So I when I got back the laptop went in for a Dr. Appointment to Smart Computers and Consulting. I'm very happy with how fast they worked on my computer and it took only a week to get it back (with it being over Thanksgiving and two days they weren't open). But the bad news was my hard drive went out. So quite a few dollars later I now have a working laptop again. My only regret is that I didn't take it in prior to the trip, because I could've completed that wedding and worked on Wedding Photos.
But after discussing turn around time with other professionals and asking brides if they have their items back from other vendors, I'm happy that I am keeping up with my turn around time as I'm not doing this 10 hours a day. When the day comes that my business has expanded enough for me to make this my main source of income, my hope then is I can get products to clients sooner.
I'm very thankful to every one who has chosen to work with me, everyone who has helped me further my business and to those clients now who are being patient in waiting for their video.
This past week I was able to finish two wedding photography sessions and mail them out to clients. I will put up pictures after things are caught up.
I'm sacrificing my updates on the website and this blog a bit, to help me get a little ahead on the editing. After January, you'll be seeing more of my writing, photos and videos than you'll probably want to :)
Have a great evening everyone and Merry Christmas!
Take time after this Thanksgiving to keep being thankful to God and telling those you love "I Love You".
Have a Blessed Christmas,
Nikki
I was just telling my hubby the other night that I had such a productive day and listed all the things I accomplished and got done! He even said, "Wow that's great!" Then the dreaded, "What do you still have to do?" Ugh, my feeling of satisfaction with the days productivity was gone after realizing what still lays ahead.
Then I got right back at it again come the next day and still had a great day. I was really excited and wrote down all the projects that are still waiting for my attention; with it in the back of my mind that I'd like to have all of my projects to my clients by Christmas.
HELLO DECEMBER!!!! I've got a lot of work to do if I'm going to get this done by Christmas. I just want all my clients to know that I'm putting in lots of hours on the computer and trying to get things out as fast as I can.
But as it never fails nothing can work perfectly, don't get my wrong, I'm very thankful for the growing business and somethings do go right but I have a lot of trials and tests that I'm put up against. We took a trip out to see my sister and family, I was actually looking forward to the 10 hour/one way drive as it'd be a great time to edit. Needless to say; I edited from Dickinson to Jamestown and accomplished 10 minutes of wedding edit. I had to restart my computer over and over because the program kept "not responding". Then on the drive back I figured I'd try it again so from Fargo to Jamestown I tried again and only got 8 minutes edited in. The worst part is those clips where pre-ceremony picture footage! So I when I got back the laptop went in for a Dr. Appointment to Smart Computers and Consulting. I'm very happy with how fast they worked on my computer and it took only a week to get it back (with it being over Thanksgiving and two days they weren't open). But the bad news was my hard drive went out. So quite a few dollars later I now have a working laptop again. My only regret is that I didn't take it in prior to the trip, because I could've completed that wedding and worked on Wedding Photos.
But after discussing turn around time with other professionals and asking brides if they have their items back from other vendors, I'm happy that I am keeping up with my turn around time as I'm not doing this 10 hours a day. When the day comes that my business has expanded enough for me to make this my main source of income, my hope then is I can get products to clients sooner.
I'm very thankful to every one who has chosen to work with me, everyone who has helped me further my business and to those clients now who are being patient in waiting for their video.
This past week I was able to finish two wedding photography sessions and mail them out to clients. I will put up pictures after things are caught up.
I'm sacrificing my updates on the website and this blog a bit, to help me get a little ahead on the editing. After January, you'll be seeing more of my writing, photos and videos than you'll probably want to :)
Have a great evening everyone and Merry Christmas!
Take time after this Thanksgiving to keep being thankful to God and telling those you love "I Love You".
Have a Blessed Christmas,
Nikki
Friday, November 11, 2011
Matthew and Mindy:: Get Married
Matthew and Mindy were married on July 2, 2011 in Williston, ND. It was a really sunny warm July day filled with friends and family gathered around. I really fell in love with Mindy and Matt, which was very easy to do as they both are so down to earth. They didn't see eachother prior to the ceremony and it was so fun to watch Matt look at his new bride as she came down the aisle. While Mindy and Matt were at the front of church you could see that she took his breath away as he would look her up and down and hold her hand. Congratluations to you both and I had a great time with you on your wedding day! Thank you for choosing me to capture this special day in your life and for being my very first Williston Wedding! Thank You!
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Hello Again
I have been wanting to blog for the longest time now, the problem is I just haven't had the time. Every extra minute I get to be on the computer I've been either editing videos or photos.
I have so many project to get completed and even though I feel like I've been working my tail off, I just don't seem to have enough hours in the day to get everything done that I'd like to.
I had to actually just now go look to see when my last post was.... 9/27/11....that is insane.
So much has happened since then and I'm thinking I'll have to overload you and update you. (The house is quiet as everyone is sleeping, so I got some time I'm going to devote to my blog readers)!!!
Lets See:
September was full of lots of good times.
I spent Labor Day weekend with the West and Fong families as Jordan and Whitney were united in Marriage in Bismarck, ND. They had a great sunny day for their wedding and lots of friends and family were there to share in their special day.
The next weekend I was all tied up in pre-wedding festivities for my little Sister Teresa and thankfully my sister Dani came home to help me get things prepared for everything. We also had the help of our Sister Nancy, Mom, Trevor's family and our wonderful Aunts who came early just to see if they could help!
We had a fabulous time with a Bridal Shower in the afternoon and continued with the Bachelorette party in the evening! It was so much fun and I was so happy to have gotten to spend this time with our family, friends and meet more of my soon to be Brother-in-laws family!
Then September 17, 2011we were off to McClusky, where our good Friend Travis married Melissa. The hubby and I took the weekend off to attend the wedding and work it as well. We were double shooting that day, doing video and photos. I started the day of with Melissa who was such a calm and excited bride and when I finally saw Travis, he was the happiest I had ever seen him, that is until he kissed his bride ;) Nothing could contain that happiness. We had such a wonderful time with our friends as well.
Here are a few photos from our day spent in McClusky:
Then I think I had a weekend off (pretty bad that I can't remember, huh) and then it was WEDDING TIME again!!!!!!
The final week of September was crazy busy with the preparations for my little sisters wedding. My Sis Teresa got married on Friday, September 30th and it all started on Tuesday! Tuesday we ran to Bismarck to pick up my older sister Dani and her family. It was such a wonderful thing to have her, my brother in law and my nephew here with us for almost and entire week. Wednesday was the start of decorating the Hettinger Armory and we managed to turned a gym into a beautiful reception! Thanks to the help of our Mom, my soon to be Brother in law Trevor and his Family!
We also had the talented Reyne Schaefer there decorating for us as well. Reyne really knows how to dazzle up a reception hall and does such a fantastic job!!!
Here is a photo I took at the end of our day on Wednesday and actually it was the early morning hours of Thursday!
After the two days of decorating we were able to spend the day Friday getting ready and getting Teresa & Trevor hitched. It was such a wonderful time to have us all home and such a great pleasure to officially have Tr in our family!
Here is a photo of us girls, the family and the wedding party which infludes my beautiful daughter K, who was a flower girl!
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I have so many project to get completed and even though I feel like I've been working my tail off, I just don't seem to have enough hours in the day to get everything done that I'd like to.
I had to actually just now go look to see when my last post was.... 9/27/11....that is insane.
So much has happened since then and I'm thinking I'll have to overload you and update you. (The house is quiet as everyone is sleeping, so I got some time I'm going to devote to my blog readers)!!!
Lets See:
September was full of lots of good times.
I spent Labor Day weekend with the West and Fong families as Jordan and Whitney were united in Marriage in Bismarck, ND. They had a great sunny day for their wedding and lots of friends and family were there to share in their special day.
The next weekend I was all tied up in pre-wedding festivities for my little Sister Teresa and thankfully my sister Dani came home to help me get things prepared for everything. We also had the help of our Sister Nancy, Mom, Trevor's family and our wonderful Aunts who came early just to see if they could help!
We had a fabulous time with a Bridal Shower in the afternoon and continued with the Bachelorette party in the evening! It was so much fun and I was so happy to have gotten to spend this time with our family, friends and meet more of my soon to be Brother-in-laws family!
Then September 17, 2011we were off to McClusky, where our good Friend Travis married Melissa. The hubby and I took the weekend off to attend the wedding and work it as well. We were double shooting that day, doing video and photos. I started the day of with Melissa who was such a calm and excited bride and when I finally saw Travis, he was the happiest I had ever seen him, that is until he kissed his bride ;) Nothing could contain that happiness. We had such a wonderful time with our friends as well.
Here are a few photos from our day spent in McClusky:
Then I think I had a weekend off (pretty bad that I can't remember, huh) and then it was WEDDING TIME again!!!!!!
The final week of September was crazy busy with the preparations for my little sisters wedding. My Sis Teresa got married on Friday, September 30th and it all started on Tuesday! Tuesday we ran to Bismarck to pick up my older sister Dani and her family. It was such a wonderful thing to have her, my brother in law and my nephew here with us for almost and entire week. Wednesday was the start of decorating the Hettinger Armory and we managed to turned a gym into a beautiful reception! Thanks to the help of our Mom, my soon to be Brother in law Trevor and his Family!
We also had the talented Reyne Schaefer there decorating for us as well. Reyne really knows how to dazzle up a reception hall and does such a fantastic job!!!
Here is a photo I took at the end of our day on Wednesday and actually it was the early morning hours of Thursday!
After the two days of decorating we were able to spend the day Friday getting ready and getting Teresa & Trevor hitched. It was such a wonderful time to have us all home and such a great pleasure to officially have Tr in our family!
Here is a photo of us girls, the family and the wedding party which infludes my beautiful daughter K, who was a flower girl!
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Wild Week!
Surprisingly it's been some time since my last post, once again.
I really enjoy blogging as it gives me time to reflect on what I've gotten completed and the things I still have to do.
This past month has been filled with many activites from personal events to weddings!
It's been very exciting because today we just went and picked up one of my older sisters from the Airport, as our youngest baby sister is getting married!
My baby sister is getting married to the greatest brother I could ever ask for this Friday!!!
I can't wait to share in their union and I'm so excited for all the family and friends who will be making the trip to be here. Just today we were surprised to see that one of our Aunt and Uncle's were on the same plane as my sister and ehr family; it just gets me even more excited!!!!!!!
As for the production side of things, oofta! I've been working on many photo sessions, finished the Colbert/Gion wedding and I've started on the next! Things have been really busy here and I'm so thankful for this busy as it means a growning business! So thank you all for everything and I'll blog a bit more when I've got more time.
It's getting late and I'm just trying to finish up a project for my sisters wedding and I can't wait to update you all next week! Have a great rest of your week, a terrific weekend and I'll be back to work again on Monday!
Have A Blessed Evening,
~N
I really enjoy blogging as it gives me time to reflect on what I've gotten completed and the things I still have to do.
This past month has been filled with many activites from personal events to weddings!
It's been very exciting because today we just went and picked up one of my older sisters from the Airport, as our youngest baby sister is getting married!
My baby sister is getting married to the greatest brother I could ever ask for this Friday!!!
I can't wait to share in their union and I'm so excited for all the family and friends who will be making the trip to be here. Just today we were surprised to see that one of our Aunt and Uncle's were on the same plane as my sister and ehr family; it just gets me even more excited!!!!!!!
As for the production side of things, oofta! I've been working on many photo sessions, finished the Colbert/Gion wedding and I've started on the next! Things have been really busy here and I'm so thankful for this busy as it means a growning business! So thank you all for everything and I'll blog a bit more when I've got more time.
It's getting late and I'm just trying to finish up a project for my sisters wedding and I can't wait to update you all next week! Have a great rest of your week, a terrific weekend and I'll be back to work again on Monday!
Have A Blessed Evening,
~N
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Photo Sessions
I've been keeping real busy lately with photos sessions and I wanted to share some of those photos with you, here are just a few of the highlights, if you'd like to see more Please visit my Facebook Page and the Gallery to see many more photos of these sessions!
Have a Blessed Day~N
Lutz Family Photos
Nielsen Family Photos
Kari::2011 Senior
Bellies::Baby Hanel
Wedding:: Mr. & Mrs. Boyd
Updates
Once again it's been awhile since my last post, one week to be exact! I might have to start blogging on my iPhone! Yep that's right I've stepped into the world of smartphones, AND I'm loving it!!! It even cuts down a bit more on my emailing here at the desk, leaving even more edit time for me to get things completed! I'm all for more editing time.
I find it really frustrating when I lay down at night and I tell my hubby, "That was a very productive day, I got (list) done today!" Then in my mind I'm thinking wow, I got so much to do yet.
I finished the Gumke wedding and I'm just about completed with the Gion wedding.
Here is the edit project list and where I'm sitting for upcoming edits, I'm about one month out which I'm very happy with::
*Jayden & Haylee Peters ~ July 22nd*
*Greg & Nicky Kadrmas ~ July 23rd*
*Trent & Olya Klienjan ~ July 30th*
*Jeff & Laura Boyd ~ July 30th*
*Nathan & Marie Blomker ~ August 13th*
*David & Channing Backes ~ August 20th*
Then I've got quite a few photo sessions I've had within these video projects as well. I'm right now working on Newborn::Trinity. Upcoming:: Reese turns One, LJ turns Two, Channing & David Wedding, Senior::Clarence, Newborn::Brady & Maternity::Crystal. I think that is everything and I'm not forgetting to list one.
***Just a reminder on the process of prioritizing photo editing:: All photos are edited within the time I'm doing Video edits. While I'm waiting for a video to rendering I work on photos, most of the time you'll see the photos on Facebook or here on the Blog before they are uploaded to the gallery. When the photos are uploaded to the Gallery, they are large files and take quite a bit of time****
I find it really frustrating when I lay down at night and I tell my hubby, "That was a very productive day, I got (list) done today!" Then in my mind I'm thinking wow, I got so much to do yet.
I finished the Gumke wedding and I'm just about completed with the Gion wedding.
Here is the edit project list and where I'm sitting for upcoming edits, I'm about one month out which I'm very happy with::
*Jayden & Haylee Peters ~ July 22nd*
*Greg & Nicky Kadrmas ~ July 23rd*
*Trent & Olya Klienjan ~ July 30th*
*Jeff & Laura Boyd ~ July 30th*
*Nathan & Marie Blomker ~ August 13th*
*David & Channing Backes ~ August 20th*
Then I've got quite a few photo sessions I've had within these video projects as well. I'm right now working on Newborn::Trinity. Upcoming:: Reese turns One, LJ turns Two, Channing & David Wedding, Senior::Clarence, Newborn::Brady & Maternity::Crystal. I think that is everything and I'm not forgetting to list one.
***Just a reminder on the process of prioritizing photo editing:: All photos are edited within the time I'm doing Video edits. While I'm waiting for a video to rendering I work on photos, most of the time you'll see the photos on Facebook or here on the Blog before they are uploaded to the gallery. When the photos are uploaded to the Gallery, they are large files and take quite a bit of time****
Grant + Robin::Get Married
Grant & Robin were married in Richey, MT on June 18, 2011.
Their wedding day was absolutely gorgeous and filled with smiles, laughter, great humor, family, friends and two silly personalities. I worked with Megan Wold Photography again, Megan did an amazing job at keeping things moving smoothly and I enjoy our chats throughout the day. Grant & Robing spent a lot of time personalizing their wedding details and the result was stunning! This is the first wedding I attended that had lighting in their reception hall and it was beautiful (you'll enjoy their lights during the first dance)!
Grant & Robin thank you for choosing me to capture these memories for you and thank you for the all the laughter.
This Wedding Story captures the love Grant & Robin have for one another; the first song was written and sang by Grant to his new lovely bride and their first dance is enough to make you giggle! Congratulations and Best Wishes!
Their wedding day was absolutely gorgeous and filled with smiles, laughter, great humor, family, friends and two silly personalities. I worked with Megan Wold Photography again, Megan did an amazing job at keeping things moving smoothly and I enjoy our chats throughout the day. Grant & Robing spent a lot of time personalizing their wedding details and the result was stunning! This is the first wedding I attended that had lighting in their reception hall and it was beautiful (you'll enjoy their lights during the first dance)!
Grant & Robin thank you for choosing me to capture these memories for you and thank you for the all the laughter.
This Wedding Story captures the love Grant & Robin have for one another; the first song was written and sang by Grant to his new lovely bride and their first dance is enough to make you giggle! Congratulations and Best Wishes!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Jenell & Brandon get Married!!!
On June 4, 2011 in Glendive, MT Jenell Pickart was united in Marriage to Brandon Gumke! It was a gorgeous day for their wedding with plenty of sunshine, not much wind and a gorgeous location for photos. I met and worked with Jenny Burman Photography out of Glendive for the first time and she was alot of fun!
This was also a fun day because my good friend was in this wedding and is best friends with the bride, not to mention her husband is the Groom's brother! In Tiff's words, "Brandon made her dreams come true by marrying Jenell and she gained her as a sister!" It was a super fun family and I enjoyed meeting the other half of the family (Jenell's family).
Congratulations Jenell and Brandon, may God continue to Bless you in your future!
Bellies::Baby Luka
Here are a few photos from the session I had with Melissa and Daniel as they await the arrival of Baby Luka! We shot an extended hour session and so there are more photos but I wanted to show you a few!
Enjoy and have a blessed day,
~Nikki
Enjoy and have a blessed day,
~Nikki
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