Specializing in wedding photography, we also provide senior portraits and family photographs. A husband/wife team of lead photographers ensures perfect chemistry and a unified vision unmatched by many photographers.
Add to the mix an affordable product and you have a winner! Feel free to navigate the site by using the menu above to find our information on all our services!
Based in Rochester, Minnesota, but serving both the med city and metro areas of St Paul and Minneapolis, our family of photographers provides multiple options for capturing your memories!
Photojournalistic style is what we strive for, to truly tell your story through photography. Midwest LifeShots (or "Life Shots" as some spell it) has vast experience in the field and a resume to prove it.
Our brains are starving for education on photography.We are also members of many organizations that help keep us on the cutting edge, including the PPA, WPPI and NAPP. Through the offerings of these organizations, we are able to learn from masters of the craft to ensure that every client we work with receives the best product possible.
MLS (or MLSP) is run primarily by Scott Elder and Jen Elder, with Ken McCasland as the owner.
Through years of experience in Photoshop and nearly eight years as members of NAPP (the National Association of Photoshop Professionals), both Scott and Jen love both sides of the work they do (photographing and processing).
There is nothing better than seeing a bride, groom, mother or grandmother smile at the photographs we take. We truly can't stress enough how important it is to make each of our clients smile.
Charitable organizations are a large part of what makes our career rewarding. Working with Christ Community Church in Rochester to ensure every event they put on it covered photographically allows us a wonderful outlet to use our creativity to provide a service to those who wouldn't normally pay for it. We have also become members of Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep. Do you have a charitable organization you'd like us to help with? If so, don't hesitate to send information our way.
Infant sessions (or newborn sessions) are near and dear to our hearts. We recently welcomed our daughter, Emily Mae Elder, into the world in April of 2009. Now having a child, we can recognize that having bottles, nipples, diapers and wipes around just simply isn't enough to remind yourself of how precious your new baby is. Having artwork to showcase the true beauty of a new child within their first few weeks in the world is something quite special and worth every penny.
Family sessions are incredibly adventurous and fun. We aren't your typical studio you might find at JCPenney, Sears or WalMart. We strive to be a different experience in every way. Taking a few photographs inside our studio is first on the list, but quickly we'll move everyone outside if possible to obtain original photographs unlike any studio experience you might have received in the past. Most common places for us to do family sessions are places like Plummer House, Quarry Hill Nature Center, Foster Arends Park, Silver Lake Park and even Downtown Rochester to capture the University of Minnesota, Peace Plaza and the world famous Mayo Clinic.
Senior photography is done by our team of Senior photographers. With our marketing, editing style and eye for detail, your senior portraits will be like none other. To utilize our skills we take our clients to multiple locations with many different outfit changes to ensure proper coverage and amazing results. Are you a hunter, fisher or race car enthusiast? If so, we'll showcase what makes you, you and make sure that your pictures are representative of their subject, not like everyone else's. We have filmed clients from Century, John Marshall, Mayo, Lourdes, Albert Lea, Byron, Winona and many others in southeast Minnesota. You can view the gallery here.
Engagement sessions are SUPER fun. We get together with the happy couple and take them to a location of their choice, usually a forest, park or downtown for an urban setting. Sometimes we capture them at known landmarks within the area such as the Corn Tower, Sugarloaf, Soldiers Field or even the Kahler Hotel. This is a session we spend at least an hour doing, making sure the romantic nature of the couple and the way they interact with one another is captured perfectly for them to cherish. You can view the gallery here.
Wedding photography is our biggest love. On a wedding day, capturing love between a bride and groom is priceless and we adore every second of it. Following the groom and bride through each stage of their day, we ensure that a photojournalistic style is given to each and every capture and that they have a true storybook wedding presented to them in their photographs. We have filmed weddings in Rochester, Minnetrista (in the Minneapolis area - Gale Woods Farm), Byron, Lewiston, Plainview, the Berwood Inn, Lanesboro, LaCrosse (WI - Wisconsin), Minneapolis and the St Paul area as well as many other locations throughout Minnesota. Providing prints at a cost quite reasonable, we offer enormous value for the cost conscious bride as well as providing state of the art photographs for them to treasure. Formal shots, just the couple, first look (first time seeing each other), the ceremony, the reception, cake cutting, catering, you name it! We capture every second of your day.
Contacting us right away when considering professional photography is very important. We offer discounts to Mayo Clinic employees, IBM employees as well as military discounts to all branches, inlcuding the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and National Guard. Our vast involvement with the community and number of discounts offered makes our appointments fill up very quickly and failure to book us soon may result in weeks, sometimes months out for open appointments. We sincerely hope to hear from you soon!
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If you have any further questions about how to navigate the site, feel free to contact us at info@midwestlifeshots.com or at our phone number, 507-424-1044. You can ask for Scott Elder, Jen Elder or Ken McCasland. You may also visit our chief photographer's Facebook site at www.facebook.com/scottelder1 for contact information or to browse photographs. Many of our site pages as well as our contact information may be accessed by searching for us on Google, Yahoo or Bing. Other search engines indexing our site are Ask, AltaVista, Dogpile, Lycos, Cuil, Excite, Go, Hotbot, AOL, Live Search and Alexa. Nationwide wedding planning sites that assist us in marketing and therefore list us as a vendor include Go2Wed, WedPlan.net, Wedj.com, Facebook, BlogSpot, Rochester Post Bulletin, Linked In, Twitter, PhotoLinks.com, Pelaez Creative, SmugMug, Yahoo Yellow Pages, Rochester MN.com, YouTube, Gathering Guide.com, BNI, 101 Photographers,Wedding And Party Network, HotFrog, My Punch Bowl, Party Pop, More-Videos, Rochester Carefest, SuperPages. There are hundreds more, but those are some quick links for ya!