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You know when you get home from an amazing trip and you just have to tell people all about it in great detail? Well this is that. I wish I’d taken more street photography while I was there but I was saving my energy for this stylized New York Soho wedding. Taking place at the […]

Queer Housing Works Bookstore Wedding in SoHo by Photographer Ezlan Powers

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Many people ask me where to go for their engagement session and there are many different options for anyone asking that question. When it comes to your engagement session, you want to choose somewhere to compliment your wedding day photography locations. Say you’re getting married during winter when there is little daylight left at the […]

Queer Montrose Bird Sanctuary Engagement Photographs by Ezlan Powers

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This is Kathy and Dexter. Dexter is an older dog, he moves slowly and he has long sunken eyes that gaze into yours from time to time. We spent the day up at Glacial National Park in my neighboring town, Ringwood, which I spend a lot of time at. It’s the go to location for […]

Fine Art Pet Photography Session at Glacial National Park in Ringwood, Illinois

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Danine and Nathaniel have strong personalities. Both of them have a presence that makes you feel like friends after a few minutes of knowing them. For their engagement session, we kicked it off with a shot of whiskey. To be honest; I’m not as big a fan of whiskey as I once was. I felt […]

CD & Me Frankfort, Illinois Wedding Photography | Danine and Nathaniel

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Enjoy this quiet and rainy wedding day. We captured a lot of moments and their first dance took months of practice. I think they nailed it! -Ez

Mickey Finn’s Brewery Wedding Photographer

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Jessalyn and Aaron came to me last year. Jess had been following me since I first began my business ten years ago. It’s amazing to know I have people following me from the very start. She disclosed she wanted me to shoot her wedding forever now. I felt incredibly grateful to be working with someone […]

Jessalyn and Aaron | McHenry Wedding Photographer

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Carly and Michael were quite the pair for this Chicago Botanic Gardens engagement session. They arrived a little bit late to their session (traffic, am I right?) but they we’re so ready for it that we knocked it out regardless! They looked amazing and had a great attitude. We made our way up to the […]

Carly and Michael | Chicago Botanic Gardens Engagement Session

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Sometimes I really get to know my clients over time, sometimes they find me a few months out and we don’t have time for an engagement session to meet one another. I really didn’t know what to expect for Allison and Sheldon but I did shoot Allison’s sister Angela’s wedding at the same venue, loft28west, […]

Allison + Sheldon Get Married at loft28west | Aurora, Illinois

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Nothing could have prepared me for this one. I knew Susan and Micah were a bit different from the rest of our clients from this year but I never knew how intricate they would get with their macabre theme. This wedding is filled with antique skulls, pies of all varieties, a Klingon wedding AND a […]

International Museum of Surgical Science | Chicago, Illinois