Behind the Studio

BRIDAL SHOW!!!

2010-03-05T16:07:00.000-08:00

We will be at the bridal show this weekend at the Holiday Inn!!
Cheryl Ann Bridals will be there as long as a ton of other great vendors that can help you along in you wedding plan or just be a great sourse for ideas on your big day! Obviously you can leave the beautiful photography to us :)
It starts at one. Stop by and see us!

Top 10

2010-02-24T09:38:00.000-08:00

As we are very proud to announce...Eric will soon be making an appearance in the Telegraph Herald...

"Dubuque, IA--Eric Misko of Elite Images Photography has been recognized as one of the Top Ten Photographers of Iowa at the Professional Photographers of Iowa Convention held in Des Moines, IA. Although all of Misko's entries scored high one of his albums was the second place winner though the entire wedding albums division."

soooo we are pretty excited to be able to display one of the best wedding albums in the state for 2010!!
If you would like to see it click here
The winning album was of Kerri Simons and Will Freidhof's wedding.

Elite Images' never expects to win as part of this huge competition, as everyone turns in such beautiful work. It is a true honor to be considered one of the top 10 photographers in the state and we are so happy for Eric.

He doesn't know I'm writing this so everyone drop him a line of CONGRATS!!
For everyone that makes a comment here I will be sure to print it out for him to see or drop him an email :D

~Annie

The other albums that were entered (and were VERY close in score to the top three winning albums) were...
Jessica Mckenzie and Ryan Kase
Jodi Biedermann and Wesley Heimke
Heather Brant and Nick Droessler

Say "I DO"

2010-02-24T08:51:00.001-08:00

Say "I Do!" Let us photograph you wedding.
Creating sweet memories is our passion.

You've waited your whole life for this day.
The Tears will dry, and the flowers will fade but your wedding photos will last forever. Let us capture the magic, emotion, and tradition of this day with great care.

Mark memorable wedding photos off your list by calling Elite Images at 563-583-9369.
Or contact us by email http://www.eliteimages.com/weddings.html
You've got enough to try on!

Kersten and Christopher

2010-01-16T14:12:00.000-08:00

Kersten and Christopher's big day was gorgeous. The Rowley's were wonderful as usual and it was wonderful to meet Chris' family as well! I am so excited for the complete album to be done....there are so many nice images that I'm excited about that I can't even pinpoint anything to talk about for this blog. I am so glad that every wedding we do includes a designed album...there are just to many fun images to have had to try to split them up any other way!

Here are some of our favs from the day...

2009-12-31T15:23:00.000-08:00

Just getting things ready for the wedding show at the Grand River Center January 16th.

If you haven't gotten your tickets yet here is a link to the web form. Remember the tickets are free!! and there will be lots of goodies that you will have a chance to win!

AND if you book the day of the wedding show you'll get a framed 5x10 'couples bliss'

These frames are cute new designed products we'll be offering in 2010. ($100 value)

I can't get the image to post right now....but I'll be sharing a pic of one soon! aka after I get Eric to help me with the techie stuff ;)

Happy New Year Everyone!

~Annie

Stephanie and Kelly LeFevour

2009-12-18T10:17:00.000-08:00

Stephanie and Kelly were married December 12th at Holy Ghost in Dubuque. They were great about going outside in the cold. We got some awesome winter weather portraits. The reception was at Hotel Julien and everything there was beautiful just like always. Here are some of my favorites from the day :)

PS... LOVED the Unicorn Dance!

Heather and Nick's Big Day

2009-12-03T15:47:00.000-08:00

Heather and Nick were married the day after Thanksgiving at a beautiful ceremony at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Kieler Wisconsin that was followed by a gracious reception at the Silver Eagle in East Dubuque. We made a few stops in between too.

(Nick and Heather...you will have to tell your co-worker that we think his apartment makes a pretty sweet background)

Heather looks sooooo beautiful here :)

Melissa and Wes

2009-11-13T07:14:00.000-08:00

With the days getting shorter we have less time to do outdoor photography at a weddings.
For Melissa & Wes' wedding we knew that it would be dark after the wedding so we found
some areas that we could photograph at night. It was a beautiful night just a bit windy.

The wedding party was a lot of fun and we got quite a few looks from people driving by.

shelby

2009-11-11T08:43:00.001-08:00

Shelby and Billy decided to go outdoors in addition to our typical indoor session.

It was a pretty crappy day outside, cloudy and rainy, but they were such good sports

about it!

You know what they say though...

No Rain, No Rainbow :)

Anyways, moral of the story is that not everyday is perfect but you can still expect

awesome images from us.

Jodi and Wes

2009-10-15T10:25:00.000-07:00

Saturday's wedding was a blast. The ceremony was at Saint Luke's in Dubuque and we were able to make some stops at the the star brewery and the river walk before we made our way to the Julien for the reception. When we got to the reception we did get to get some images of the guys in the Al Capone Suite at the Hotel Julien which was awesome.

Wes and Jodi's album is going to look great.

Let us know what you think in the comments!

Joy and Eug

2009-10-15T10:18:00.001-07:00

Double wedding weekend! ...and both were beautiful even though it was a little chilly for the time of year. Joy and Eug's wedding was Friday 10-9-09 at Holy Family in Peosta and the reception was at Silver Eagle in East Dubuque.

My favorite images were right after their ceremony just around dusk. The sunset was beautiful.

Joy and Eugene are exceptionally caring parents and I'm glad we were able to share in their day.

Kara and Adam Ohms

2009-10-02T08:07:00.000-07:00

Kara and Adam celebrated their wedding nuptials on 9/26/09 at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in the Scales Mound/Galena area. We started the day off at Kara's aunt's house in Galena before making our way to Grant Park to meet up with the groomsmen. After pulling off a quick switch of the bride and groom without seeing each other we shot a few of the bride and bridesmaids and we were off to the Church. The entire day ran smoothly, but we were a little late for the reception...their were just so many gorgeous portrait opportunities! (and the gorgeous portrait opportunities just kept coming entire night!)

At the Mines...

2009-09-25T10:21:00.000-07:00

Tyler and Calsey were married last weekend at a the Mines of Spain. For those of you not up on your Tri State Area knowledge, the Mines of Spain is a beautiful nature preserve on the South side of the county. The ceremony was in Horseshoe Canyon which is a very unique area nestled in between towering limestone walls. The tracks that run nearby the canyon follow the curves of the Mississippi River.

After the Mines we stopped at Murphy Park which is nearby the Mines of Spain before the Ceremony at the Fair Grounds in Dubuque.

Love this moment between Calsey and her Grandpa dancing at the reception

Heather and John's Wedding

2009-09-18T12:54:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday's wedding was beautiful! Heather and John were so nice to work with, we really enjoyed photographing their wedding. The reception was at the Star Brewery and the food was great. We love shooting around the Star area...so many interesting angles and backgrounds there. I was interested in the dessert at the wedding too. Koppes Kreations , in Cascade, which I hadn't heard of until this weekend, they make some incredible desserts.

Here are some of our favorites from the day...

Can't wait for the album to be completed!

Mr. and Mrs Tony Dix

2009-09-11T08:37:00.000-07:00

Kelly and Tony were married at Saint Joe's Key West and the reception followed at the Dubuque Fair Grounds. We had a great time photographing their wedding! The cake was cupcakes layered with a small cake to top it off. I really liked that it was different then traditional cakes. My favorite from the day is the black and white of the first dance.

Blue Room Productions did the videography, I hope I get to see the finished product. Rachel from Blue Room always does a nice job.

Other then that enjoy the images, can't wait to see the final version of their designed album...

Emily & Spencer

2009-09-03T16:18:00.001-07:00

Emily and Spencer were married at the Dyersville Basilica . We stopped by the Arboretum for some fun images before we made our way to the reception at the Grand River Center. We like images that show true expressions, so the image by the trolley is one of our favorites! Emily has such a great smile. Emily and Spencer's first dance was nice. The large windows at the Grand River Center look awesome in the background. I'm excited to see the completed album, I'm sure the design is going to look great. I'm glad they don't have to pick and choose which images to include, it would be to hard, they all look great!

Jessica and Ryan

2009-08-26T17:55:00.000-07:00

Here are some images from Jessica and Ryan's wedding last Saturday.

Jessica looked beautiful! The ceremony was at St Luke's Methodist

Church in Dubuque and the reception followed at the Hotel Julien.

http://www.hoteljuliendubuque.com/

The couple chose an awesome candy collaboration in lieu of a cake

and cheesecake was served after dinner. It was great by the way :)

We worked with Philip Hinkle from

Frogman Productions. He did a great job and I definitely recommend

him for videography. You can check out some of his work from Jessica

and Ryan's wedding here http://frogmanproductions.com/blog/

We are starting on their album and hope to be done soon. We have

had an overwelhming amount of brides and grooms choosing our

more contemporary style albums. So we have been busy busy busy designing.

Jessica and Ryan's album is going to look great, they have so many nice images.

This image is my favorite from the day...

I really like this black and white too. It has such a soft

airy feel to it. Jess' veil was beautiful.

Kelly and Kyle

2009-08-21T12:53:00.000-07:00

Kelly and Kyle were married at St. Paul Lutheran Church and their reception was at the Peosta Center. I love it when we can do family portraits outside. I included some in the slideshow, they look great! Comments welcome!

Shelly and Jared Shafer

2009-07-31T15:30:00.000-07:00

Shelly and Jared's wedding was a lot of fun to photograph! They were pretty brave to go on the floating dock too :)

Emily and Jeremy Gratz's Wedding

2009-07-31T15:23:00.000-07:00

We narrowly dodged torrential weather and the images are still beautiful!

Elite Images will work through any weather :) Thanks guys you were so much fun!

Sarah and Keith McLaughlin

2009-07-24T08:34:00.000-07:00

Sarah and Keith McLaughlin were married at St Mary's in East Dubuque and the reception was at the Hotel Julien http://www.hoteljuliendubuque.com/ and everything was beautiful!

Thanks so much for sharing your day with us! We had a wonderful time photographing your special day...we hope you enjoy the images as much as we enjoyed creating them!

Brittany & Jeremy

2009-06-26T12:12:00.000-07:00

Brittany and Jeremy's wedding last Friday was a great! We had a blast photographing it and are really excited to see the design for their wedding album. Here is a sneak peek of their images until then!

Stephanie & Chad

2009-06-19T08:54:00.000-07:00

Stephanie and Chad were married June 13th, 2009 at St. Martin's Catholic Church in Cascade.

Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Lake!

This black and white was my favorite image!

I love it!

This is the bride's parents' backyard...it was gorgeously landscaped

and was a great area to photograph.

Laura Anthony and Josh Rudolph

2009-06-10T10:43:00.000-07:00

June 6th, 2009

Laura and Josh were married at the Cathedral last weekend. Hope you enjoy the images!

Kerri & Will

2009-06-05T10:08:00.000-07:00

Kerri and Will were last weekends Friday wedding. It was at the Ramada Galena

( ramadagalena.com if your interested) and we had a chance to go downtown in Galena.

Here are some of my favorite images!

Laura & Tyler

2009-06-05T07:46:00.000-07:00

This last weekend's Saturday wedding was great. We had gorgeous weather and had a great time photographing Laura and Tyler. They were married in New Vienna (its one of my favorite churches from the outside so I started the slideshow off with one of them outside the church)

Enjoy!

Kelly & Eric

2009-05-28T14:22:00.000-07:00

I'm pleased to introduce...The Schwabs!! (they are adorable)

Here is the slideshow and a couple of our favorites from their day.

Comments are welcome!

Jessica and Jeff

2009-05-21T15:44:00.000-07:00

Here's a sneak peek at Jessica and Jeff's 5-16-09 wedding. We had a great time photographing it, so I'm excited to post the slideshow.

Comments are welcome...we love to know which images are people's favorites.

Emily and Spencer's Engagement

2009-05-13T11:28:00.000-07:00

Here's a recent engagement video to check out

Emily and Spencer...

Ohhh Craps!!!

2009-05-05T08:35:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago Elite Images teamed up with Mission Creative (www.missioncreative.biz) for two days of commercial work at Prairie Meadows in Des Moines. Prairie Meadows is a Casino just outside of Des Moines in Altoona. Don't worry there wasn't any gambling on the job. :) We were all work, no play. Anyway, instead of gambling, we spent every moment photographing models and employees. Check out some of the sweet promotional shots we took for them. And yes, that really is $10,000 cold hard cash.

2009-04-30T14:54:00.000-07:00

I was just looking through pics from Vegas and I ran across this one...its officially my new favorite image. I took it just before dark in the dessert near Red Rock.

Meghan & Scott

2009-04-23T18:04:00.000-07:00

Eric and Megan (Elite Images' Megan, not the bride Meghan:D) photographed this wedding last weekend, April 18th.

The images are beautiful just like their wedding! Here is a slideshow & some images to give you a sneak peek of the images before Meghan and Scott get to show off their album. (We are busy busy designing it and it's looking great!)

Future Sneak Peek

2009-04-13T11:02:00.000-07:00

In the near future, we will be giving our wedding couples the

opportunity to share a sneak peek of their wedding images

with their family and friends. These will be available for

viewing on our blog at www.eliteimages.com.

We look forward to seeing you here soon!

Elite wins again!!!

2009-02-02T14:30:00.000-08:00

Elite Images won third place in the Weddings category at the 2009 Professional Photographers of Iowa convention that was held in Des Moines. Last year Elite won first place in this division. Unfortunately for us, fellow photog Kim won first place in the weddings division this year and dethroned Eric. We will battle it out next year and the victory will be ours!!

We photograph WINNERS! :)

2009-01-31T07:00:00.000-08:00

Recently, we had a great time photographing Diamond Jo Casino

winners and you might just recognize

some of these winners from ads that have been on TV.

SPA-Las Vegas

2009-01-18T15:57:00.000-08:00

I figured out we would start the blog off with a BANG and fill you in on something cool right away. In the beginning of January I got the opportunity to go to SPA (Senior Portrait Artist) in LAS VEGAS!

SPA is an

intense conference designed to continue the education of established photographers that create high school seniors' images. The conference allows you to work with the top senior portrait photographers in the country. Going to this conference not only allows you to go to classes about lighting and posing, but actually photograph models. This keeps us in tune with the latest poses and the hottest new colors before we hit the coming senior season. These are just a few quick out takes of areas we shot and some of the models that I got to work with.

In the midst of all of the photography fun we also took advantage of some other cool things to do in Vegas. We did the typical Vegas to-dos, like shows and hit the strip, but we also did some off the beaten path things in Vegas. This is me and some fellow photographers horseback riding through Redrock (Teri Ann, Lisa and Me-Eric)

Overall, the convention was pretty sweet. We are always excited for the opportunity to grow and do different things. I feel that creativity not only needs to constantly evolve, but also needs to be captured knowledgeably.

~Eric