I thought I'd share a personal story with you on Christmas!

This is our second Christmas together married, and we continued our tradition of baking Candy Cane Coffee Cakes together!  The tradition started when we were dating where all the baking took place in my very tiny apartment kitchen.  

We make the same recipie each year - and my favorite part is that it takes at least 3 hours from start to finish - so we get spend all that time together in the kitchen!  We make the dough from scratch, le...
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 With a little bit of a crazy schedule these past 4 months (grad school, full time work, and a photo business) there has been almost no opportunities where I took photos just for me.  Looking back at the last few months, every time I clicked the shutter, it was for a client. . . until last week.

A very special friend of mine plays high school basketball.  As soon as my semester was finished I looked up her schedule and headed over to the high school gym.  I had fun going back to a high school ...
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 When Jenny said they were getting married early in December I thought 'hmmm this may be challenging for photography."

We arranged to do the outdoor photos at The American Club in Kohler, Wisconsin.  The brick buildings and fabulous landscaping made for great backdrops during this time in-between fall leaves and winter white.  The best part is that there is a heated area near the gardens that allowed up to warm up in-between shots!  (thank goodness because we were cold!)

My favorite photo from ...
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Each year LBP will have you help us pick which photo should receive the title 'photo of the year'.  We started this year by nominating 15 photos from 2010 photo shoots. (They can be seen here .)  After one week of voting.  . . we have a winner. . . and a runner up!


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Hi - this is Laura Borkenhagen from Laura Borkenhagen Photography.  
Up until now I've always used facebook as the place to announce things or ask you questions or just to share my thoughts on photography.  Many times my thoughts take up more than the 420 character 'status update' limit that facebook has . . .so now I'm onto blogging!


I plan to use this blog to do things that are different than the facebook page . . . I'm going to ask questions about photography style to get your opinions....
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