Keri Brecht Photography

A few of the sneak peeks I shared with the Hansons yesterday!❤️💐👰‍♀️🤵‍♂️

What a “day in the life” looks like for a photographer after a wedding…downloading thousands of photos to prep a few sneak peeks!❤️

There is no greater feeling than seeing all the memories captured from the previous day popping up one by one on the screen and imagining the excitement when you client gets to see their sneak peeks!!☕️

Had so much fun with the newlywed Hansons yesterday!!❤️📸 Congrats to Maddie and Jack!

Starting wedding season off strong with Maddie and Jack tomorrow!🌸💐📸 Can’t wait to capture these wonderful memories for them!

Prepping for my first wedding of the season tomorrow! Can’t wait! 📸

Sharing about Keri Brecht Photography & Design and how I empower women through my photo sessions and website work this evening!❤️

Surprise!! Keri Brecht Photography now has an office and studio space local to Waterloo/Cedar Falls!🎉🎉🎉 So excited and grateful to Pink Luna Co. for sharing their space with me!

This space is going to be perfect for newborn sessions, couples, headshots & branding, and photoshoots with smaller families. It is the perfect cozy space for sessions during the colder months, or to add variety for my outdoor sessions.

As a huge bonus, I’ll have a space outside my home to work on websites and my design work!

Still have some painting and decorating to do - and will be announcing some session giveaways very soon!📸

If you have a little one on the way, something special is coming soon to Keri Brecht Photography!❤️👶🏻 Stay tuned for giveaways and more updates this week!

Little fingers and adorable profile...

🎉Fill My Calendar Giveaways 📸 are coming!

As a thank you for such an amazing year welcoming me back to Iowa with all your photo and website/design projects, I will be giving away several photo sessions for 2024!

Stay tuned for the details and let me know in the comments what type of photo sessions you’d like to see in the giveaway! (Senior, family, headshots, engagement, newborn, etc.)

P.S. Winners can be located ANYWHERE. I will travel to you! ✈️

I made this today for my 2024 phone home screen and thought I‘d share in case someone else wants to use it, too!

Feel free to screenshot and add to your home or lock screen!❤️ Happy first week of January!

Cheers! Happy New Year to all!!🥂

If you worked with me this year, thank you! It was truly an honor to be your photographer/designer this year!

It has been a fabulous year creating memories and building brands and websites for all my wonderful clients this year - here’s to even more in 2024!🎉

🎨Coming Soon - New branding!📷

In addition to Keri Brecht Photography, I've spent the last several years also focusing on a separate business doing websites and branding for business owners. I LOVE my photo business AND my design business equally, so why am I running them separately? It is time to make them one!

The next few months, I'll be working behind the scenes to rebrand and combine Keri Brecht Photography with my design business Face Your Dreams with Keri. Can't wait to take you along for the ride!

What I'd love from you - some suggestions of names for the new business rebrand. Please vote below or share other ideas in the comments! Thank you so much for your support!

For some background - I want to be approachable to the businesses I work in the online and brick-and-mortar spaces (coaches, travel agents, pet products, ag companies, etc.) while still being sought after for my traditional portrait photography clients as well. My mission is to help people bring my clients' memories and dreams to life!

1. Keri Brecht Photo (or Photography) & Design
2. Face Your Dreams Photo (or Photography) & Design
3. Keri Brecht Creative Studio
4. Iowa Dreamer Creative Studio
5. Share your ideas in the comments - maybe something with "Creative" or "Studio" or something similar? Help lol

{Maddie & Jack - ENGAGED} - Sneak Peeks! 📷

Golden hour REALLY showed up last night for these two! I am obsessed.

These two were SO MUCH FUN to frolic around with last night for their engagement photos! I have never giggled so much during a shoot, and I love their love! ❤️

I remember Maddie when she was a little girl, and now she is all grown up and starting her life with Jack!🥲 Can't wait for the wedding day!

A few favorites from my soybean harvest session with JB Ag tonight in my hometown! 🌾🚜 The Iowa golden hour never disappoints!

Next up...corn! 🌽🌽🌽 (A big lump with knobs...it has the juice!)

Did you know - A big focus of Keri Brecht Photography lately has been brand photos!📸

Tonight, I had the thrill of hopping in a combine and trying not to get runover to take some brand photos for a local business in my hometown!

Iowa will always be home to me! 🌾👩🏻‍🌾🚜

If you are a local business needing headhsots or brand photos, send me a DM to chat more!

When your clients are secretly professional models…💃

Carissa Blair Holton KILLED IT in our photo session! This has been one of my favorite brand photo galleries to work on ever!

Carissa went above and beyond to help us buy our first home last year. 🏡 She is such a blessing and was amazing to work with! I kept asking her, is it really this easy???

More sneak peeks to come from this fabulous session! And if you are in the Cedar Valley/CR/Benton area and looking for photos - YES! I am back and available to book. I have a few openings left for October through December, with both studio and outdoor options!📸

Shramek Family - Your gallery has been sent! Can't wait to share them with you all. 🥰

Sundays are for...self care and prepping client galleries! 📸💻☕

What are you up to today?

How many times have I sat at this same table…working on homework and papers, chatting with great friends, and now editing client photos!

I love the moments when life comes full circle. I am grateful to have experienced many of those moments this summer!

Prepping your gallery !❤️📸💻

Join us at the Farmer’s Market this Saturday!❤️📸

Come say hello & be a model for me this weekend at the Cedar Falls Farmers Market. 😄

This weekend's market is a special one for me! The bakery will be in full force with my mom & sister handling the market sales while I'm making balloons and face painting right next to them at the market!

My long-time friend, Keri Brecht Photography, will be taking pictures. We are working to get a website going for both of my little businesses, Love's Neighborhood Bakery & Loony Balloonies and Face Painting. 🥳

Looks like it'll be a beautiful day for us. ☀️

New menu items! Cherry Crumble Bread & Local Raspberry Crumble Bread - Raspberries are from a no-spray patch in Parkersburg.

This week's menu:
Banana Bread
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Blueberry Crumble Bread
Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble Bread
Strawberry Crumble Bread
New! Local Raspberry Crumble Bread
New! Cherry Crumble bread
Returning! Peach Crumble Bread

Apple Crisp
Local Berry Crisp
Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp

Triple C Cake
Protein Balls
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Nutella Stuffed Cookies

Lemon Blueberry Scones
New! Strawberry Rhubarb Scones
Dark Chocolate Scones with Maple Butter Glaze

Rainbow Eggs (from chickens with names!)
Returning! Pita Bread

Coming soon!! Lemon & Local Raspberry Scones

After about 10 years, we decided to dust off the cowboy boots for another round of photos with one of my favorite families!

Y’all age like fine wine!!❤️

Here are a few of my favorites from our session…more on the way!

Kassie Elise Mather Kaitlin Kromminga Deb Kromminga

Drum roll please…the CUTEST little one is 6 months old! I had a blast capturing this memory with little Minnie and her family!❤️📷

Here are a few sneak peeks…more to follow!

Lindsey Jurgens

🍁FALL MINI SESSIONS!🍁
I’ll be in Cedar Rapids this Sunday, October 2nd!
Break out the sweaters and scarves, and get those family pics updated, just in time for the holidays.

Sessions are 30-45 minutes, and you’ll walk away with 15-20 edited, high quality images to show off.

I am only opening up 5 spots at only $175 per family, so DM me ASAP to book now!

Instagram photo by Keri Brecht Photography • Nov 16, 2016 at 1:03pm UTC

"I see the moon and the moon sees me..." ❤️️

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It is so humbling to think about the sacrifices if all the men and women who have put their lives on the line to serve our country. To those still with us, thank you for all you have done and continue to do. We honor and are thankful for everything about you, and not just today. To those who are lost but not forgotten, we hold you extra close in our hearts today. Your memory will live on forever in our hearts. Those those who have been wounded physically and/or emotionally, we vow to stand there beside you as you did for us. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you. ❤️🇺🇸

Wow!!! So humbled to have my photo featured by Iowa Storm Chasing Network! Thank you so much for sharing the beauty of autumn in Iowa! 🍂🍁🍃🌳

Good morning Iowa! Have a wonderful day, and in the process, we would like to feature this great Iowa photographer! If you want to be featured, send us your photos.

IowaChase.com - Photo: Keri Brecht Photography

Instagram photo by Keri Brecht Photography • Oct 28, 2016 at 10:36pm UTC

LOVE beautiful autumn days in Iowa!

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I LOVE fall!!

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"Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire."

© Keri Brecht Photography 2016

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." -Jawaharlal Nehru

© Keri Brecht Photography 2016