Welcome

Welcome to my blog. My blog is an extension of my website www.dg-photography-iowa.com which is my portrait business. I am using this blog to keep you up to date on the new products and services I have as well as comments on my favorite portraits and setting. This blog is really a good way for you to get to know me as a photographer. So, I guess I will give you a little bit about me to get started.

As you already know I am a portrait photographer. I a married and have a son. I am a political junky and love to ride my mountain bike when I can. I have been commuting to work when it is not too snowy or cold, throughout the winter. I started commuting to work by bike back in May of 2007. So far this winter had gone well until the January and February months when it got too cold and too much snow. I don't mind the deep snow on the trails but in order to get to the trails I have to ride 2nd and 3rd ave. I do not have to tell you if you have traveled them in the past few months that they are scary in a car, not to mention on a bike.

I broke into portrait photography when I graduated college and started to work for Expressly Portraits, which is now the Picture People. The training was top notch and I came away learning a lot. I learned the basics in posing, how to be creative with limitations, to be quick and decisive. I moved from there to Linn Photo where I took over the portrait photography position. This is where I got to move my lights around, join Professional Photographers of Iowa, and photograph weddings.

I moved on to a position of a publishing company. Things were not working out at Linn Photo as I had hoped and with the demands of family a 9 to 5 job fit better in my life. But with changes comes new experiences and thus started my training on Adobe Photoshop. I started on version 4 and now I am up to CS2. The trip has been fun and I have learned a lot from my training at the publishing company, other websites and blogs. After so many years at the publishing company and so many changes I started to miss the portrait photography so a year ago I started DG Photography. I still work at the publishing company but I hope to soon change that to working full time at my own business.
So Check out my site and keep your eye on this blog and I hope I can informed and entertained on this site as well as be your next photographer