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It’s all in the shoes 👟

  • By Rob Wehmeier
  • October 18, 2023

Those Shoes I really love finding images when multiple elements start to line up.  I was these brides’ maids standing in the parking lot after the wedding and I notice the shoes, the hands and the dresses.  It was a question whether they would line up in an interesting graphic way.  The images below is…

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Categories Black & White Instagram
Tags: Black & White Instagram Street Photography

It’s been a busy week. So many birthdays 🎉

  • By Rob Wehmeier
  • October 14, 2023

I love the way my kids have made their own relationships with each other.  It fun watching how each of them, with their own special personalities, relate to each other.  I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that the three are all have group conversations without me or their mother.  And to be frank I don’t…

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Categories Black & White Leica
Tags: Black & White Leica M240

Reflective

  • By Rob Wehmeier
  • October 11, 2023

Patrick Image from a recent senior session I know this may be techie… but.  The new lens I got when I sold off my medium format gear has been so much fun in studio.  I can shift between strobe shooting and available light with one lens, f5.6 to f2 in without swapping lenses or cameras. …

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Categories Black & White Instagram Studio
Tags: Black & White Instagram Portait

Just a bit of ol’ tymie.

  • By Rob Wehmeier
  • October 1, 2023

 I wonder if it’s being rented from Ma Bell?    

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Categories Black & White iPhone
Tags: Black & White Hipstamatic iPhone

Sousa Flying Wedge

  • By Rob Wehmeier
  • September 21, 2023

The most dangerous battle formation is the flying Sousa wedge.  

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Categories Black & White
Tags: Black & White Hipstamatic Michigan

Can I have this Dance?

  • By Rob Wehmeier
  • September 16, 2023

  This is from a recent wedding Elise and I attended. I love those little moments in the swirl of the other activity.

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Categories Black & White Leica
Tags: Black & White Leica M240

Contentious Meeting

  • By Rob Wehmeier
  • September 8, 2023

  There was a disagreement and ensuing standoff on what my priorities should be at the morning staff meeting. This young lady has become an integral part of our operation. She’s a great distraction when Im trying hard to get retouching done and she is so friendly that we need to put her up in…

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Categories Black & White iPhone
Tags: Black & White Hipstamatic iPhone

We went flying and my son drove.

  • By Rob Wehmeier
  • September 6, 2023

My view during Ryan’s lesson.  Yes, that’s right, Ryan went flying. And, of course, I went for the ride too.  It was a pleasant flight in a nice plane. Ryan eagerly awaited his lesson.  Little did he know that, very shortly, he would do a touch-and-go landing by himself.

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Categories Black & White iPhone
Tags: Black & White Hipstamatic iPhone

Sunrise Over Wedding Dress

  • By Rob Wehmeier
  • August 24, 2023

   

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Categories Black & White iPhone
Tags: Black & White Hipstamatic iPhone

A Prom Thing

  • By Rob Wehmeier
  • August 9, 2023

 A forest selfie or a selfie in the forest.⁠  

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Categories Black & White Leica
Tags: Black & White Leica M240

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My name is Rob. My journey into photography began in the early 1970s, inspired by my older brother as he developed and printed black-and-white photographs in our basement darkroom. After a challenging eighth-grade trip to Washington, D.C., with a malfunctioning Kodak Instamatic 100, I was motivated to work a long, hot summer to earn enough money for my first camera, an Olympus OM-1. In 1986, while studying at Valparaiso University, I embarked on my photography career. For over 38 years, I have worked with both commercial and retail clients, driven by my passion for this art form.

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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. - Aaron Siskind, 1955

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