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The Phlog for Mark Kegans Photographs, Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographer

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After 15 years as a newspaper photographer and looking for a change, my wife Kelly’s career carried us from our home state of Texas to Iowa. The change in scenery also shifted the focus of my work. While still pursuing journalistic work with organizations such as The New York Times and Getty Images, I have progressively devoted more of my career to wedding and portrait photography. Why? Well, I don’t see the 2 fields as so divergent. When I photograph a wedding or make a child’s portrait, I’m simply a documentarian on a more intimate scale. Those images will have at least as much, if not more, value to a family as, say, flood pictures will have for the readers of a newspaper (Support your local newspaper!).
My favorite, though oddly most reluctant, subject is my son, Evan, who I’m also training in the ways of the Jedi. We make our home in Des Moines, Iowa with our 2 kittens, Miss Mittens and Clooney, and Mickie, our new puppy.

Sheena + Grant: See me after class

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

I’m running late to the airport but I thought I’d try to squeeze in a blog post for my fan out there (Hi Mom! Send $). I’m headed to Portland to shoot 2 weddings this weekend with my most excellent friend, Randy Kepple.

Anywho. This here is Sheena + Grant’s engagement shoot. Let’s just say if there was a marriage class, these 2 would be the clowns sitting in the back, cracking wise about Hummers (as in limos) and pretty much all else sacred to the all-American wedding. I love them. They really came to play for this shoot. Rain? They didn’t care. A photographer trying silly lighting tricks? Fire away, bub. “You want us to stand in front of these numbers which mean nothing to us? Okey-doke, you’re the artist.”

Maybe people in the Great Northwest take weddings a little more seriously. Gawd, I hope not.

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