Black Studios

Our family: Michael, Dacey and Rachel. We photograph weddings, seniors, sports, families, children, babies and engagements in eastern South Dakota. We live in beautiful Rutland SD. Our studio is just across the alley from our house, making for a very short commute.

While photography is a lifestyle onto itself, we do enjoy traveling (always with a camera), hiking in the Black Hills, biking on the country roads, long walks at Lake Herman and training for triathlons at the Community Center in Madison.In reality, our lives revolve our kids as we play taxi service hauling them to their activities.

Rachel's cheer team from Aberdeen Central won the Spirit of 6 Award during the Girls State AA Tournament in Brookings last weekend. I am one proud Dad. Here are a few images from Dacey. Dacey and I went down to Lake Brandt to check out the Ice Races in front of the Shipwreck Inn just north of Chester last Sunday.

Look who is coming for a visit this Summer! My friend Carmen is planning to come up from Iowa to collaborate on photography projects starting in the beginning of June. Carmen is a graduate of Hawkeye with a degree in photography. She has past production experience in a professional lab and she has her own photography business in eastern Iowa.

We download images to our laptop as the day progresses. As a benefit, we can see right away if something has gone wrong with a camera or if we are missing any essential shots. Unlike the days of film when you had to wait for the pictures to come back from the lab, we know that we have the images we want and they are good.