January 15, 2025

Publications, Awards, & Milestones | Photography

Our 2025 is off to an amazing start, and we have so much to be thankful for as we reflect on this past year! We were incredibly honored to have our work at The Lowlands featured in Minnesota Bride’s Fall and Winter issue!

In addition to this beautiful feature, our work in Southwest Florida at the Tampa Museum of Art was featured on Wed Society Tampa + St. Pete last month!

We were also awarded The Knot’s Best of Weddings award for 2025, and are honored to be included in their Best of Weddings Hall of Fame! As always, we are beyond grateful for all of the love our couples shared on The Knot this past year!

We are both humbled and thrilled to celebrate our 10,000th subscriber on YouTube! Words cannot express our gratitude for each and every person who has taken the time to share such kind words in the comments and follow along from around the world!

In all we have celebrated this past year, there is perhaps no greater joy that receiving the email responses from our couples and families when we share their images with them. We truly serve the the best of the best!

2/10/24 – O my goodness thank you! We are practically to tears we love them so much! Thank you for everything and we will definitely be in touch in the future! – Laura

2/14/24 – I wanted to reach out now that I am back home and have had time to look through all the photos on a computer instead of my phone and say what an amazing job you did!  I am so grateful and thankful for all the photos.  They are beautiful!  I don’t know how I am going to decide which ones to print.  I am already looking forward to the next time!  Thank you again!!! – Krista

2/21/24 – THANK YOU!! Thank you so much, you were absolutely amazing. We have heard from several bridal party members and family what a great photographer Shane is and how much they enjoyed working with him. Dakota and I second that as well! It was such a pleasure and I am so grateful to Kelsey for recommending you! The sneak peek looks incredible and we can’t wait to see more. Also, I want to thank you for the very thoughtful wedding gift – we appreciate it so much and can’t wait to frame our favorite photo (if we can choose a favorite). Again, thank you for everything! It was wonderful 🙂 – Katie & Dakota

2/28/24 – Wow! We’ve been staring at the photos since you sent this email. They are perfect and better than we could have imagined! 🥰 We look forward to be able to get them printed and shared! This makes us so excited for you to capture and be a part of our day! July can’t come soon enough! – Gabby & Jeff

3/1/24 – OMG!!!! They turned out so beautiful!!!!!!!!!!! Love your editing style Anna and Shane was a pleasure to work with. He made us both feel so comfortable. – Ashley & Grant

3/2/24 – Oh my gosh, Shane. These are absolutely incredible. I cannot even believe how beautifully you captured our day. We could not possibly love them more!! These should be in a magazine with how perfect you captured it all….we could never thank you enough!! – Melissa & Tevyn

3/6/24 – Oh my gosh these are amazing!!!!! Thank you so much again for documenting our family! – Meghan

3/8/24 – Thank you so much! Your work is amazing! I love every single photo! – Jana

3/8/24 – Love the blog post! Wow! That was quick, thanks so much! We thoroughly enjoyed working with y’all, You helped ease our nerves and make us feel so comfortable. Plus, we have some beautiful photos that we will cherish forever! – Caitlin & Nate

3/10/24 – Thank you both so much for such an amazing photoshoot. We absolutely love working with you and are continually in love with the pictures and moments you capture. We appreciate you! Can’t wait to see what family milestone we can capture next time. Much love, – Emily & Shane

3/15/24 – We seriously can’t thank you enough for these beautiful pictures!!! So amazing. We’re so excited to see all the final photos ♥️♥️♥️♥️ You were incredible to work with. The directions didn’t seem forced at all, you made it all so easy. I hope one day we will be able to work with you again for a different occasion! – Dana & Alex

3/26/24 – Thank you!!!! The pictures we’ve seen so far have been phenomenal!!!!!! I am super excited to see what the rest look like. Thank you for being a part of making my day so perfect! You were wonderful to work with and I could not have imagined a better experience! – Jennifer & John

4/15/24 – Absolutely cannot wait for the wedding – we received SO many compliments on our engagement photos and our save the dates featuring your work 🙂 Thank you!! – Katherine & Aaron

5/15/24 – We are absolutely blown away by our pictures- they are absolutely gorgeous!!! We couldn’t be happier! Thank you so much! – Kristen & Matt

5/17/24 – OMG! Wooow!! We absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE these! They turned out so beautifully, thank you to you both. Chris and I have been entirely stunned by this entire process and by how quick the both of you are with responses and editing. We are so grateful to have the both of you on our team throughout this entire process and it makes us so much more excited for our big day next September!! – Angie & Chris

5/20/24 – Thank you so much, this is amazing! We were tearing up just looking at these photos with such sweet memories at these locations- we couldn’t love this post more!! – Kat & Will

5/26/24 – These are SO amazing! Thank you so much!!! I think I told Dustin about 100 times how excited I was to see the pictures and these totally lived up to my expectations. THANK YOU again for being a part of our day! – Danielle & Dustin

5/29/24 – These look INCREDIBLE!!!! Thank you so much Shane and Anna!! We are SO happy!!!!! – Lauren & Reese

7/1/24 – Oh my goodness!!  I absolutely LOVE them!! I can’t wait to show Tyler and our families. THANK YOU! We cannot wait to see your talent on our big day! – Bailey & Tyler

7/18/24 – Oh my gosh – perfection! We are in love with what we are seeing and will never get over how perfect our day was for us and for how these photos captured the moments! We can’t wait to see the rest! – Gabby & Jeff

7/23/24 – We had the best day and we can’t wait to keep seeing more photos. We are already loving the previews so much. Thanks so much again! – Brenna & Erik

7/24/24 – I really appreciate you sharing this with us! I’ve just checked out the blog page, and the photos are absolutely breathtaking! Looking forward to collaborating with you again in the future. Your talent is truly impressive! – Kathryn

7/25/24 – Oh my GOSH!! These are absolutely incredible!! Wow, wow, wow!! As our honeymoon is wrapping up, this is exactly the little pick me up that we needed. Can’t wait for the gallery! Thank you for all your work and for making our day so wonderful! – Erica & Adam

7/25/24 – We absolutely loved working with you, and are so stunned by the images you created from the day. I hope we can work together many more times in the future. – Beck

7/29/24 – Wow, Shane!! These are incredible! Thanks so much for sharing! You are so speedy on returning galleries and such a pleasure to work with! Thanks again! – McKenzie

7/31/24 – Thank you so much!  They are wonderful and we can’t wait to see the rest.  You do wonderful work and we can’t thank you enough for all that you did to capture our day. – Megan & Robbie

8/6/24 – What a nice early surprise! Thank you so much! These are WONDERFUL. The link has been shared so many times already. We love them so much. We are super impressed with Shane’s ability to have our golden look like a normal (non anxious) pup. That is Uber impressive! We look forward to seeing the full gallery and picking some for our save the dates — it will be difficult deciding which ones to use! – Michaela & David

8/10/24 – Anna! We love these photos so much we cannot believe it. We have had the best time today on our honeymoon looking at these photos. We can’t even believe how beautiful they are! We are having the hardest time even picking our favorites to share. I think my dad told Shane at the wedding, but we didn’t book our date until we knew for sure that you all were available, and that was the best choice we made. We are so overjoyed we had you as our photographer to capture this day for us. I just can’t say enough! We will absolutely be leaving you reviews. Thank you again! We love you two and are so happy you were our photography team! You so perfectly captured our day! – Jill & Jarett

8/10/24 – Thank you so much! We love them! Many of them have already made it to our digital frame along with the frames of our families. Now the fun starts of printing save the dates. Taking pictures has never been a strength of mine but you both have made the experience very enjoyable. – Michaela & David

8/13/24 – These are beautiful! Oh my goodness, Tristan and I cannot stop smiling viewing these. You guys have been amazing to work with—thank you so, so much! – Rachael & Tristan

8/29/24 – The blog post is amazing! Thank you so much for your kind words. These pictures bring a huge smile to my face and warm my heart. Alex and I are so excited to see them all. Thank you both for capturing our love so beautifully! – Hayley & Alex

9/10/24 – Shane!!! We love these! Thank you so much for everything! Us, our friends, and family are in awe with how these turned out! – Emily & Luke

9/20/24 – Oh my gosh! This is amazing! AGH I adore your work and am still amazed that you guys had a photo gallery out before the reception. You guys do absolutely stunning work, and it was a pleasure to work with you. – Hayley

9/22/24 – We absolutely love our gallery! Thank you so much for your quick work and the results came out better than either of us expected!  – Heather & Zach

9/26/24 – Thank you so much, those look AMAZING!!! We can’t get past how wonderful they were all done, they’re perfect!!! We can’t thank you both enough!! Thanks so much!! – Jess & Alex

9/27/24 – Thank you SO much Shane and Anna! These are all so amazing – we are so very happy with the results and love everything!! You two as a team are so very talented and the whole process was so very organized and streamlined. We were impressed and really appreciate all you have done to make this a special time! We will definitely pass your name along when someone is looking for a photographer. Thanks again! – Kendra & Josh

10/14/24 – THANK YOU SO MUCH!! We are absolutely blown away! We are so in love with our photos and are having so much fun reliving our wedding day!! We are so excited to share these photos with our friends and family! Thank you again for everything!! – Ally & Tommy

10/15/24 – It was such a pleasure working with you, I hope to work with you again in the near future. We will most definitely be recommending you to our couples! Thank you again, – Kari

10/24/24 – Just wanted to reach back and thank-you for your feedback and also your inspiration and kind support of me! I follow you a ton and revere your work. I am deeply grateful for your wisdom and inspiration about gear, philosophy, and best practice. Cannot thank you enough! – Scott

10/25/24 – We had such an amazing time with Shane on Wednesday. We’re ecstatic to receive the blog! The pictures are breathtaking. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! – Caroline & Jack

10/27/24 – I just wanted to say thank you again for such an amazing experience with you yesterday while shooting our wedding! Everyone was raving about how amazing and professional the photographers were- you are truly the best. – Kat & Will

11/2/24 – We saw the blog post and fell in love with all the photos! Thank you for your excellent work!!! You captured our relationship beautifully. Thank you again! – Lexi & Austin

11/16/24 – Oh my goodness! We just got home from overseas and seeing them now- these are INCREDIBLE!! We are so happy with them, absolutely priceless memories 🙂 Thank you so much again!! – Kat & Will

12/13/24 – Oh wow, as with every step of this process you guys are AMAZING!!! Thank you!! – Emily & Matt