My family and I recently had our family portrait taken with Joanna at her studio and had a…read morewonderful experience and beautiful photos we'll cherish forever. Joanna's a fantastic photographer! She's professional, has an eye for detail, listens to you, easy going, and fun to work with. I highly recommend her to anyone looking for beautiful photos and a great photoshoot experience and here's why. Prior to the day of our photoshoot, Joanna walked us through details to help us understand what to expect, while listening to our ideas of what we were hoping to capture from the photoshoot as well. She helped us design our coordinating outfits, (as I didn't realize so much goes into that!), and we discussed the "day of" expectations. It was helpful for me, as I am a detail person, and wanted to be absolutely prepared for my husband, young son, and I. On the day of our photoshoot, we were excited, and I have to admit I was a bit nervous, but the moment we stepped foot in Joanna's studio we really felt like stars. Joanna put lovely details into her studio and it makes you feel comfortable and glamorous at the same time. I honestly believe that speaks to Joanna as a photographer as well. She helped us feel comfortable in front of the camera so we could have real smiles and just be ourselves. I feel she actually captured us being us in that moment, but in a studio with lights and a camera. We had so much fun! When the shoot was over, we actually wished we could do more, but will have to save those ideas for a future family photo with Joanna.

We are so happy to have our family documented with such creativity and style by Carina…read morePhotographics! During our session we were a little worried that there wouldn't be anything good because our just-turned-two-year-old was being so, shall we say, energetic. Boy were we wrong! Joanna captured so many beautiful moments that we will treasure for a lifetime. She knew just how to handle a little one with a short attention span, keeping things cheerful and adjusting the pace as needed to keep everyone happy. We used the photos on our Christmas cards and our friends and family have been ooohing and aaahing over the pictures, too!

Laurie was fantastic to work with. Being photo enthusiasts my wife and I wanted to make sure we…read morewent with a great photographer and we were not disappointed! Being from out of state, she worked around our schedule to find slots to take our engagement photos and was super quick whenever I had a question arise. Her style and eye is great and she has a way to capture photos without them being too posed. I have heard horror stories of weddings where the bride and groom waited months to get back their photos, not only did Laurie get us a couple photos in a few days for some thank you cards... but she delivered the rest way faster than we expected. She plans out the shot list with you advance, and this helps tremendously to get a sense of timing for your event and when and where people need to be. We were both very happy to find her. And we enjoy looking back at our photos and framing them around the house.

Working with Laurie is delightful, and we've been dazzled and impressed by her photography skills…read more From the consultation meeting to our engagement photos to our wedding, everything has gone smoothly and been super easy with her in charge. Laurie is also fun and energetic, which is important because you spend a lot of time with your photographer! She's been super flexible, happy to meet whenever and wherever, even driving out to our area of town to meet with us. I'd book Laurie again with no hesitation.

I have been in photos by life image for almost 10 years!…read more They do the photography for many of the charity bike rides around Minnesota including the Red Ribbon Ride, Breast Cancer Ride and Attaboy ride. They do cutting edge photography and video. True professionalism cut with an artistic eye that is second to none. Many of their photos are on the walls of my living room. I recommend Life image to anyone looking for an event photographer, business videographer or private photo shoot. They are the best in Minnesota.

The team from Life Image did photos and videos for our wedding in Saint Paul, MN. Jeff & Rita were…read morevery professional, creative, and patient. Since we started planning the wedding, they kept communicating with us to gain the best perspective on what we wanted and also provided great ideas about photographing on the wedding day. The final products including photos, booklet, and videos are beyond our expectation, which capture lots of beautiful moments on our big day. All our family members and friends are very impressed by how they dedicated to the work. We feel really grateful for having them as a part of the wedding.

We're so excited to be the first to review DnK Photography!! It doesn't get any more complicated…read morethan this... Dan and Karin are AMAZING. Their work is AMAZING, their style is AMAZING, the experience you will have with them will be AMAZING. Where do I start...? We have had DnK shoot photos for us about 5 times now and the results have been superb every time! When we first met DnK we were looking for a wedding photographer. We met with about half a dozen photographers in the Twin Cities and DnK were the only ones who seemed to be really enthusiastic about our big day. That was a big plus, of course, but even better than that they went out their way to understand our ideas for the big day even though it was just our initial meeting and we hadn't made any commitments to them yet. My wife and I got a of confidence, very quickly, that they would do a fantastic job for us. The wedding photos turned out perfectly, better than we could have hoped. We had a lot of ideas ourselves but Dan and Karin both came up with really fun and cool ideas on the fly, all of which came out wonderfully. Dan is great at the action shots and coming up with unique ideas in real time as he sees folks interacting and moving around. Karin's portraits and group shots are second to none and her detail shots are sensational. Together they make such a great team and compliment each other really well. We also had the videography option too and that also blew us away. On the big day Dan and Karin were on time (important! :o) and they did a great job or organizing everyone. They kept us on track but at the same time made everyone feel at ease and just helped us enjoy ourselves! (Personally, I don't really like having my photo taken, so the idea of wedding and family photos was enough to make me cut straight to the booze at the reception but DnK managed to take all my nerves away and I really did enjoy myself. It was like magic! Ha!) Immediately after the wedding, on the Monday, we did a "Trash the Dress" shoot at the MN State Fair. Let me tell you - it was a BLAST! Despite it being hot, with hundreds of being constantly surrounding us... it was SO MUCH FUN!! DnK's photos of this shoot were every bit as good as the wedding itself! In fact, in summer several of our photos were used by the Fair as a promo for the event!! How cool!? Since the wedding we have been back again and again. My wife is a musical theatre actress, she has had them shoot her promotional shots for her website and they also shot the photos for a production at The MN History Theatre which have been used two years in a row by the theatre. I could go on and on... but I'll close by saying this: Give DnK a chance, they won't let you down. They will give you incredible value and you will LOVE the results!! Next stop... Pregnancy photos please Dan and Karin! Then baby photos! Then... well, you get the picture... :o)

When looking for a wedding photographer I wanted to find pictures that I connected with. I ran…read moreacross DnK's website. I hadn't seen their advertisements, or website or rankings on wedding sites, so I was a half heartily looking at their pictures, but I fell in love with their photos. That was in 2010, they've been nominated for all sorts of stuff now because they deserve it! As luck would have it, they were available the day we needed! So we met to interview them and I walked out of there and told my fiance at the time - there is no need to interview anyone else. I want them. They were so prepared when we met, but prepared like photographers are, somewhat disorganized, but they knew were everything was but totally on top of it. They were quit the duo to watch. They had their business side down, pricing was prepared, photos were in hand, they knew each others strengths so they let the other focus on their side of the business. We started asking all the "suppose to ask questions" wedding sites suggest you ask, but quickly just started talking. We connected, it was great. What really sold me was I asked "Come on, you have some crazy bridezilla moments, right?" The response was amazing after giggling at the question, "we haven't had any because those are not the types of brides we attract." - they said it much more professional though. The turn around time on the photos was as expected, email response was as expected (note brides - you are not the business's only customer, don't expect an answer for every little question within 24 hrs no matter the business you are talking to), but the quality of our photos by far surpassed expectations. The photo booth was a gem, the candid photos they caught captured the people's personality to a T. Most of all the photos of my husband and I captured our relationship and the mood of the day just perfectly.

I worked with Sonja for a Fall mini-session. Sonja was really helpful before, during, and after the…read moresession - I knew what to expect and how I could prepare prior to the session; the delivery of the photos was on time and of easy access for recipients! I was a bit worried about the awkwardness of doing the session alone, but it turned out that Sonja is very good at making me feel comfortable in front of her and her camera! It was also very impressive to me that she immediately grasped the types of photos I wanted after I showed her a few examples! And she knew the area well; she knew where and how to take photos that I would love! Overall, highly recommend Sonja for your photo sessions!

After we got our beautiful engagement photos back, we knew we could expect wonderful things from a…read moreSonja for our wedding day and she exceeded our expectations. We are absolutely thrilled with the way she captured our day. She was there from the getting ready photos through our reception and did not miss a moment. She perfectly captured our love and personalities in a completely natural way. Plus, she got so many great candids of our guests that we would have missed otherwise in the blur of the day. She did a great job location scouting and had so many ideas for shots that we would not have considered on our own. We were very impressed with her professionalism are beyond pleased with her beautiful work!! Thank you, Sonja!!

Andy was monumental in capturing various candid shots during our engagement along the lakeshore in…read moreMinneapolis. He was extremely professional and easy to communicate with -- which was especially important given that we planned everything over email and didn't meet (in person) until afterwards. A few months following the engagement, we scheduled more time with Andy to capture more photos -- many of which are framed throughout the apartment to this day. I highly recommend hiring Andy to help with your engagement photography!

Andy is a fantastic photographer. He was very prompt in responding to us. He took the time to chat…read morewith my fiancé and I to see what we were looking for. He was very thorough in his research and gave us great ideas to work with. Andy was very flexible with working on two different season themes with us. I would highly recommend him! Our photos came out wonderful! We can't wait for our winter session with him!

Matt is AMAZING! If you book him for your special event you will not be sorry. He did our wedding…read moreceremony and he made everything so easy and fun and he stayed and put up with us all for 7 hours haha. The photos are amazing!! We are so happy with them and getting so many compliments on them!!!

Matt was very professional and our wedding photos look great! It was nice they were posted online…read moreright away for our family and guests to see. Matt managed a good mix of providing professional guidance but also being very flexible with our requests.