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North Central Wisconsin Senior & Portrait Photographers James & Katie Stokes Located in Medford, Wisconsin // Wausau Wedding    

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February 14, 2015

/ James Stokes

Katie and I wanted to wish all our couples a Happy Valentines Day! We’re so very blessed to have each other and we’re wishing you all the best as you plan the day you start your journey as Husband & Wife. After 7 years of marriage, and 6 years of photographing weddings together, we have learned to appreciate the small-unplanned surprises in life. Not everything goes exactly as we envision and rarely do things go according to plan, but at the end of the day we have each other. That is what counts. We have each other’s side, back, front and everything in between. I couldn’t have planned a more meaningful life than the one God has created for us. We are grateful for every blessing our imperfect love has allowed: our children, our businesses, our home, our friends, our family, and the clients who make it all possible.

Valentine’s Day’s origin is a complicated one woven in myth and romanticism & I’m not sure anyone knows for certain of how it all came to be, but I am reminded of a love that gives sacrificially, a love that sees no lines in the sand, a love that serves even when tired, a love that takes out the trash in subzero temperatures, a love that risks life and limb to find the right cold medicine at 3:00 am, a love that cleans messes and doesn’t point them out, a love that gives up everything! I am fortunate enough to have known this love and know this love daily and on this fact alone – I count myself a rich man.

When the flowers, chocolates, dinners, & love letters fade, what will you have? According to one of our favorites movies, Moulin Rouge! 

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and to be loved in return.”

There is some solid truth to that and one that comes with a nostalgic melody that often causes us to break out into song. This Holiday may your gifts to one another exceed monetary value and extend far beyond today and your wedding day, may it continue to influence your life and the lives of others, may it transcend this generation and continue into the next. Love is our greatest adventure!  

 

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Happy New Year! Wisconsin Wedding Photographer

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January 1, 2015

/ James Stokes

Katie and I are grateful for the memories we have made and captured in 2014! We look forward to the wonderful couples we will have the pleasure of working with in 2015. Thank you and Have a Happy New Year!

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BRIAN & KIM | WISCONSIN WINTER WEDDING

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December 12, 2014

/ James Stokes

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CHRIS & KIM | YAWKEY HOUSE MUSEUM GARDEN WEDDING

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August 14, 2014

/ James Stokes

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NATHAN & MEGAN | RAINY ROTHSCHILD WEDDING

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August 7, 2014

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BROOKE & KELLEN | RIB MOUNTAIN WEDDING

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August 7, 2014

/ James Stokes

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Rib Mountain Wedding Photos

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June 20, 2014

/ James Stokes
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2013 | Wisconsin Wedding Moments Worth Remembering

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January 10, 2014

/ James Stokes

For me, sometimes it feels like the only moments I remember are those I have seen in photographs. These are the times that feel the most real, like they just happened and time really did stand still for that one 1/60th of a second.

When searching the Internet for wedding images, it is often the same types of photographs we see; the dress, the shoes, the details, the rings, the bouquet etc., And while we love these photos, (they are some of the most fun to capture because it forces us to think creatively and attempt new things) they make up such a small part of a wedding story.

What rarely makes it on blogs, Pinterest, and photographer websites are the in- between, sometimes not so pretty, not-stylized, real-life moments – you know the ones that make you laugh, cry, and remember what it felt like in that fleeting instance.

What moments do you want to remember?

In our living room there is a picture of our children simply being kids, one is crying one is laughing, one is being silly, and one is looking questioningly into the camera. Across the top of the canvas is the quote,

“If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is a phrase I have come to embrace as my mantra for parenthood – life-hood and one I take with me on a wedding day. By allowing ourselves to be in the moment, rather than separate from the experience, simply observing, controlling, analyzing, – we are free to richly exist within an experience and the phenomenon that is a wedding. I believe this takes a certain amount of emotional investment in our work and an ideology that seeks to shoot not only for our clients, but also for ourselves.

What are the moments we would want to remember?

I believe this is where a style is born. It is so much more than the ‘look’ of an image or even the way we use our camera. It supersedes both of these things and begins with our own personal experiences and the way we view the world.

Many of these photographs are in black and white; I have always been drawn to simplicity of BW film. Kodak 400TX film could be found in my camera over 50% of the time when I was growing up with my Pentax K1000. Sometimes color can distract us from what is really happening in the photograph. Often colors come with their own emotions; black and white timeless moments cause us to truly see the image for what it is. It might be that I grew up falling in love with my grandparents snap shots that cause me to be drawn to these types of images time and time again.

So in 2014, I want to continue to stay true to myself and shoot more images likes these.

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When your dad smelled your mother’s foot

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When he almost didn’t make it back to shore

 

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Your mother’s last words to you before you married the man of your dreams.

 

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When it started to rain but you didn’t care because you had everything you ever wanted

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