Favorite Destination Wedding Locations: Costa Rica
Bio: Wendy tells stories full of feeling, poetry, and humor. Her background includes a career as a reporter and photojournalist
with CNN, ABC, and The Washington Post, where she honed skills as a documentary photographer. Throw in her love of urban fashion photography and modern lifestyle portraiture and her clients get wedding coverage with a sophisticated, contemporary look. Her major influences are Bambi Cantrell, for fashion photography and David Williams, for classic portraiture, with whom she has studied.
Wendy won a Peer Choice award for Best Wedding Photography from the Professional Photographers of America in 2003. Her work has appeared in The Knot magazine, Minnesota Monthly, and People Magazine. Her education includes a BA in film/photography from Syracuse University. At home in Minnesota, she loves destination weddings and has worked in Canada, Bermuda, London, Rome, Barcelona, Cozumel and major US cities.
Bio: Noah Wolf has been photographing weddings professionally since 1998 and is a Certified Professional Photographer by the Professional Photographers Association. He is an internationally recognized photographer for both wedding and humanitarian photography. Noah's style is very unique as it incorporates photojournalism, high-fashion and fine art. Recent honors included being ranked 9th in the world by the WPJA, MN Bride Magazine's Best of Photography, The Knot Magazine's "Top Pick" for 2007 and 2008.
Bio: Glen has been a photojournalist for over 20 years, covering the world's celebrations and triumphs for news organizations in New York, Florida, Washington, DC and currently for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. He has photographed presidents and kings, peewee football games and kindergarten ballet classes. Assignments have taken him to Central America, India and China. He is a graduate of Syracuse University with a BA in Photojournalism and has won numerous awards in his career for photography and picture editing.
Bio: A successful architectural and commercial photographer, Steve leaves room in his busy schedule for 10 to 12 wedding clients per year. His first paying job as a photographer was as a feature shooter for Philadelphia area newspapers. He also is an accomplished landscape and fine art photographer. His work has been the subject of one book and has been featured in several other books as well as numerous magazines. He has been commissioned by the Smithsonian Instituition. Several of his images are part of their permanent collection.
Bio: Chad Richardson started working as a photographer for his high school newspaper and he has been at it ever since. Chad's work has since appeared in small weeklies and large dailies throughout Minnesota. He's worked on three book projects, including Walking On Water, a whimsical look at the sport of ice fishing.
Chad has won numerous photography awards from the Minnesota Newspaper Association. He's also won awards from the National Newspaper Association and the Wedding Photojournalist Association. He operates his own studio out of his basement in suburban Hastings, Minnesota.
Bio: Dave Arntson owns Milestones Photography in West Fargo, where he specializes in wedding photojournalism. He is a native North Dakotan and holds a degree in Photojournalism from Minnesota State University Moorhead, where he now teaches photography. Dave has a decade of experience at daily newspapers in North Dakota and Wisconsin. His work has been honored by newspaper associations in North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. He was the first WPJA member in North Dakota and has won multiple awards from the WPJA.
Based Out Of: Western Wisconsin near Minneapolis, Minnesota
Also Serving: Minnesota
Bio: For more than 20 years, Jeff honed is photojournalism skills at newspapers accross the USA. During that time he received numerous regional and national awards from the National Press Photographers Association. In the year 2000, Jeff left newspapers to concentrate on a freelance career. Initially he focused on the corporate and editorial photography markets but soon realized that wedding photojournalism was the perfect fit for his skills and experience. Jeff is a multiple WPJA award winner.
The Artistic Guild of the WPJA puts some of the best fine art wedding photographers at your fingertips! The AG takes the world-renowned artistic approach of WPJA wedding photojournalists to yet another level through post-production processing (usually Photoshop). WPJA photographers define artistic wedding photography!
If you choose one of our WPJA Minnesota wedding photojournalists
as your wedding photographer, please let them know you found
them through the Wedding Photojournalist Association.
The WPJA at a glance: The Wedding Photojournalist Association
puts the best Minnesota wedding photographers at your fingertips,
by granting membership only to the most talented professional
wedding photographers in the world--photographers who focus solely
on using their documentary photography skills to capture the
moments of your wedding day.
Known as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes," Minnesota offers an endless variety of outdoor locations and naturally beautiful destinations that will make your wedding event a most spectacular occasion. The Twin-Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul are a hub of exciting city activities and cultural locations that make for a thrilling wedding destination and will add life to your wedding photographs. Minnesota is home to the Mall of America, the largest shopping mall in the United States, which is located in the city of Bloomington and has more traffic and visitors come through in a year than the Grand Canyon, Graceland and Disney World combined. With over 500 stores to choose from, you can also avail yourself to the 14 movie theatres and over 60 restaurants that will certainly meet all your wedding shopping and activity needs. In addition, Minnesota offers a myriad of professional and amateur sports venues that could certainly add to your wedding experience. As a part of the Upper Midwest, the state of Minnesota offers a great deal of wedding photography moments with its shared neighbor, Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes as well as the largest expanse of freshwater in the world today. Minnesota also hosts an abundance of water bodies, including the origin of the Mississippi River and 11,842 lakes that are each in access of 10 acres, leaving you with endless wedding destination options and wedding photography settings. Minnesota offers you many scenes for your wedding enjoyment, from the urban life of the main cities to the numerous local farms that present a natural landscape of life for your wedding photographer to shoot as you make your wedding event an unforgettable celebration.
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