Wedding Photographer in Minneapolis MN does Head shots, Portraits, Baby, Child, family & Senior Photographer, St. Paul MPLS Mn

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I started life as the young son of a father that was a devoted hobbyist and part time wedding photographer in Minneapolis, MN. I remember many magazines laying around the coffee table that had fantastic images from National Geographic and 'Modern Photography' magazine. We were very lucky and had a real darkroom with chemical processing and all! My first pictures were with my Kodak Brownie of my dog Sparky. I completely craved the magic of photography from then on.

My Father and Uncle are phenomenal musicians and I'm not kidding!! They kick/ed butt. My Dad was on national television in the 60's and won many regional and national awards. He remains a great musician and a hero to me. Well, long story short...I became a musician myself in the 4th grade and have spent the majority of my life following the dream of being a musician. I won Florida's best guitarist contest, toured the country and local scene with a pop/rock band, appeared on national prime-time television, performed for state and federal politicians and gave back to the community by traveling and playing for many non-profit causes. I even owned a successful 4,000 square foot recording studio, A440 Studios, in Minneapolis, MN.

Through life changes and opportunity, I rekindled my first love for photography and reshaped it into my full time professional career since 2003. I am desperately in love with my passion. I guess I love photography because it's a part of my upbringing AND I like to make people look and feel good about themselves.

This blog will be about what I do professionally as well as personally. I may give tips for beginning photographers, getting better family photos, baby and maternity portraits, as well as post recent work from weddings, family portraits, baby's, kids, senior photography and security cameras if it feels good. You should be able to use the links at the bottom of the page to filter the blog based on personal or professional posts.

I hope you can find something here of interest and I welcome your comments always!

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Thank you for visiting and reading!

Best Regards,

John Hanson | 612-743-5484

Marriott City Center Hotel | MN Wedding Photography – Mike and Katie

Downtown Minneapolis MN wedding with a gorgeous couple in love. They had the most beautiful venue…and they have that all important secret of their romance and commitment to each other. One of the best Twin Cities weddings I’ve captured. They wanted a non-traditional artistic photo journalistic style, but they looked great posed as well.

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January 28, 2011 - 9:34 AM

Zlatko - Well done! Great moments and beautiful portraits too.

January 28, 2011 - 6:28 PM

Rebecca - What a stunning bride and beautiful wedding.

January 29, 2011 - 9:59 PM

Allen - Gorgeous wedding photos John, I love the color and emotion!

January 29, 2011 - 10:52 PM

admin - Thank you for the compliments Zlatko, Rebecca and Allen! Coming from you I find it an honor

February 3, 2011 - 4:16 PM

Naples Wedding Photographer - Love all of the great moments you captured. The black and whites really caught my attention. Great work.

February 6, 2011 - 6:40 AM

Nady W - Very emotional, that’s looks amazing, each of them I wish to see more and more, especially girl with microphone;) so cute!
very good shoots!

February 7, 2011 - 9:57 AM

Photos by Nick - LOVE LOVE LOVE this wedding. Looks like it was an amazing place to shoot. Nice job.

February 28, 2011 - 8:54 AM

Olivier Malcor Photographer - Nice work ! All your photos are beautiful !

March 6, 2011 - 12:29 PM

Denver Wedding Photographer | Eli Powell - Beautiful set John. Love the emotion & lighting. Solid work!

March 7, 2011 - 1:40 PM

Slava - Really enjoyed the PJ look, black and white, nicely done. Great venue and great looking couple in love. That always helps. Thanks for sharing.

March 11, 2011 - 1:04 PM

Boundless Photos Wedding Photography - Really great set of images, so much emotion in them and I really like your processing too!

March 20, 2011 - 7:00 PM

Derek - Great job John, very inspirational.

May 21, 2011 - 4:17 PM

Joe Federer - I agree with Derek — inspirational is right. Truly great artistic storytelling… well done!

May 29, 2011 - 8:50 PM

Gabriel – Seattle Portrait Photographer - I loves these shots. Great pictures. I like how you incorporated architecture into the shots with stunning perspective and composition. I also admire ow you captured the emotion of the weeding. Very tender. Good work!

June 10, 2011 - 4:32 PM

Preston Palmer - Wonderful work! I love your style!

August 1, 2011 - 5:36 AM

Adam Alex Xsight - Great capture!You have wonderful style!

August 3, 2011 - 6:56 AM

Philip Hawkins Wedding Photographer Edinburgh - Shots 320 and 323 are supreb! So dramatic and eye catching!

November 25, 2011 - 9:27 AM

Paul Mozell - Great, classy photography! Keep it up.

December 5, 2011 - 10:46 AM

Keith - I especially love the picture of the little girl holding the mic. That is just a great moment captured in time.

December 15, 2011 - 11:16 PM

Greg Fiske – OC Wedding Videographer - Great processing on this set. Agreed, your black and white treatments really stand out. The emotions of the day really shine. Well done.

St Paul Hotel Corporate Headshots – Evergreen Energy MN

Posted in Headshots

Corporate head shots are always interesting, usually challenging, but highly rewarding (if you can think on your feet). Ever-Green Energy is no exception. They are located in St. Paul, MN near the Landmark Center in Rice Park and they sell green energy to private and commercial clients.

They had an event/meeting because of a great new CEO taking control of the ship, and they wanted to get some new group shots along with some studio portrait type head shots. The challenge was first to bring all my photo gear into the hotel quickly and not having to haul it all too far. I also had to shoot 25 individual head shots and about 6 different group shots with 10-15 people all within about an hour and a half! Nobody likes to wait for photos so I work very quickly. What’s amazing about this company is that they are actually growing their business even in this down economy! I’ve been lucky enough to be their commercial and event photographer and have been taking their studio portraits for about 4 years now. I can honestly say that they are a very real, humble but intelligent and friendly group of people. It must be all the green they save I’ll just post a few photos from the session to show how great they are even in a “studio” portrait setting so you can see their great smiles.

Here is a composite image much like our old high school senior yearbooks hey?

Ahhhhh, never mind…I don’t want to do this to anybody unless you are in a high school senior yearbook.

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A new way to view album design pages!

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This is a new plug in that allows an easy and unique way to view album layouts. I just wanted to test it out for wedding album layout approval. Let me know what you think by leaving a comment below.


		
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January 26, 2011 - 3:26 PM

Tim Wild - All I can get it to do is zoom into the first image! I see no flipping.

January 26, 2011 - 4:52 PM

admin - Tim, you need to click on the upper write corner and drag to the left (like you are turning the page of an album). Check it out, it’s kinda neat.

Devon’s First Communion Photos and Family Portraits in Hudson, WI

Posted in Communion, Events, Family Portraits MN

Lots of first communions lately. Here are a few of Devon’s which took place at a church in Hudson, WI. You can see that he’s extremely photogenic. Congratulations Devon!