There are so many great things about being a bride and finding the perfect spot is one of the best
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Pushing foward, always
We always are looking for light and shapes, contrast and subtleties to make our photos shine
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Tall and far
Perspective is a great way to make photos more striking.
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That classic feeling
If only everything was in black and white.
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Crafty
Activities in photos makes photos more active.
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The way is should be
These are the kinds of connections we prefer, we look for and we love.
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For you, though it all
We like to fly above the distractions and through the buildings
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Trustee Cory Wesley
Sometimes you just need a photo on a clean white background.
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Chicago Sinfonietta photos published
As always, I love to see our worked published. It’s kinda what I do this, published in periodicals or albums! It’s great to see our…
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Dearborn Garden Walk
Kiera Lau (Charlotte) and Dustin Erikstrup (Ethan) Garden Wedding (our ‘bride and groom’) where published on the Chicag Style Weddings Blog pages, couldn’t be more…
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Chicago Style Weddings Shoot Behind the Scenes
Chicago Style Weddings – January Launch 2017 from KBH Media on Vimeo. Behinds the scene look at our photo shoot for Chicago Style Wedding magazine…
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Commercial Real Estate
We’ve been doing a lot of commercial real estate photography in Chicago lately, so we created a tumbler. Check it out – http://ockenphoto.tumblr.com
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Working in Arkansas
Bob Ocken’s interview for the “Creative Economy”
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Ocken Photography Weddings
Thanks to KBH Media for all their amazing work – if you’re looking for great video, warm personalities and a wonderful person to work with,…
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Choose Ocken Photography
There are many reason to choose a photographer, so we outlined reasons for not choosing a particular photographer in a fun, funny and not so…
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Vintage Photos
The past is catching up to me, and I like it. Sometimes our past lives drift, become vivid memories – but with Hillary Clinton and…
View More Vintage PhotosBlast from the past – Campaign photography from the 90s
Buzzfeed is good at finding the good old days – And what a blast from the past. Hillary Clinton for the early 90s, taken by…
View More Blast from the past – Campaign photography from the 90sOcken Photography Wins Couples’ Choice Award
WeddingWire, the nation’s leading online wedding marketplace, named Ocken Photography as a winner of the prestigious WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards for Photography! The WeddingWire Couples’…
View More Ocken Photography Wins Couples’ Choice AwardAmy + Kevin at the Willis Tower on the 99th Floor
Congratulations Amy and Kevin. Married at Our Lady of Lourdes and a wonderful reception on the 99 Floor at the Wills (pronounced ‘sears’) tower.
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Congratulations Sarah + Josh Such a wonderful wedding at the Ignite Glass Blowing Studio.
View More Sarah + Josh at Ignite Glass Blowing StudioEmily + Sam – Early Spring Wedding
I wonderful spring wedding in the midwest, congrats Emily and Sam.
View More Emily + Sam – Early Spring Wedding2002 – Dallas, Texas
On September 29, 2002, Sakiko Mito married Budi Tjoenawan at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas. This was eventful from our perspective…
View More 2002 – Dallas, TexasThrowback – Experiences that separate us
How long does it take to create great photographs? We say decades – and here’s way. Have you ever looked at a photo and said,…
View More Throwback – Experiences that separate usDefinition of Experience
We found this quote and feel it really captures our message: “[Experience] is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the…
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