Quote of the Day

“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody-it saves so much trouble.”
—Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), poet, author

"Award Winning Photography"

"Award Winning Photography"
Weddings are special. Two people committing their lives to each other. Families beings created. The joy of dreams shared and love fulfilled. Let Delightful Images capture the hope, dreams, and joy of the day that your lives are united. Weddings are celebrations of life and love. Weddings are solemn promises and vows. But most of all weddings are history - your family history. At no other time in your life will you share something so intimate as vowing your love in the company of so many people. Love can be dramatic, wild, quiet, all at the same instant. Love is unique to every couple. Show the world how different your love is.

Together as a team, they create and photograph romantic, storybook weddings that their clients love. Please call the studio to discuss your ideas with Gregg & Linda so they can answer any questions that you may have. Gregg Thompson Photography offers a wide range of services including custom designed portrait sessions, clothing consultations, custom framing, digital retouching services, contemporary black & white wedding photography and more. They look forward to helping make this event one of the happiest and memorable of your lives.

We offer Wedding Collections that always capture the Heart! Two Photographers, with over 24 years of combined wedding experience, at your event. Capturing your style, moments, memories in Black & White and Color, with a ‘flare’ for the contemporary and traditional. Full day coverages, leather-bound custom designed albums, on-line viewing, our guarantee…assure you of the “Best” we have to offer!

Gregg Thompson has been photographing weddings, portraits and corporate functions for over 18 years. Renowned for using natural light situations, Gregg is able to create a sensitive and elegant image.With Gregg’s spontaneous humor, all the tension diminishes and clients become their best in front of the camera.

Gregg has been recipient of many Honors, including; awarded “Minnesota Wedding Photographer of the Year 1999″, “Photographic Craftsman Degree” from PPA in 1999, “Court of Honor” awards, Kodak “Gallery Award” and numerous images accepted into Loan Collections.
Linda, Gregg’s wife, along with her expertise in managing their property management company these past six years, decided to joined forces with Gregg, and became co-owner five years ago, bringing her Black & White photographic (documentary) experience to the team. Her stylistic eye never fails to capture the passion of the day and her sense of fashion and design records those intimate details that might otherwise get overlooked.

Gregg met Linda totally by chance. He had inquired about hiring a model, to help with a wedding instruction class he was presenting to fellow photographers, when a friend mentioned Linda… Seven years later, they now find themselves as one of the ‘most sought after’ married photography teams in the Midwest, having been asked to photograph weddings throughout the Midwest, as well as Negril, Jamaica, Houston, Texas, Sacramento, CA, Seattle, WA, Las Vegas, NV, Sanibel Island, FL, and Isla Mujeres(Cancun), Mexico.With their children, they enjoy traveling together, spending time at their lake home and sailing their 30′ Cal Sailboat on beautiful Lake Superior.

Together they strive to provide the finest wedding and portrait artistry available.Thompson Portrait DesignToll free phone: 866.656.5919 / e-mail: Info@ThompsonPortraitDesign.net

Quote of the Day

“No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.”
—Author Unknown

OK, I've got a little more time to post...anyway, these images of Nicole were taken at Blue Vista Farm, near Bayfield, WI. The images and the setting are what make these images great...in my opinion.

Quote of the Day

"The price of greatness is responsibility."
-- Winston Churchill, Former British prime minister

Eddie & Jenny, June 28, 2008

Photographed Ed & Jenny...Beautiful wedding taking place in Saint CLoud, MN

Senior Portraits

I was fortunate enough to photograph Nicole's Senior Portraits this weekend in Bayfield. She comes from such a super family! I was honored to photograph Nic's older sister two years ago, as well. Thanks Nicole!

More Grad Images!!

The Law Of Saving

The Law of Saving

Financial freedom comes to the person who saves ten percent or more of his income throughout his lifetime.

One of the smartest things that you can ever do for yourself is to develop the habit of saving part of your salary, every single paycheck. Individuals, families and even societies are stable and prosperous to the degree to which they have high savings rates. Savings today are what guarantee the security and the possibilities of tomorrow.

Start With Yourself The first corollary of the Law of Saving comes from the book The Richest Man in Babylon by George Classon. It is to "Pay yourself first.

"Begin today to save ten percent of your earnings, off the top, and never touch it. This is your fund for long-term financial accumulation and you never use it for any other reason except to assure your financial future.

Develop New Habits Regarding MoneyThe remarkable thing is that when you pay yourself first, and force yourself to live on the other ninety percent, you will soon become accustomed to it. You are a creature of habit. When you regularly put away ten percent of your earnings, you soon become comfortable living on the other ninety percent. Many people start by saving ten percent of their income and then graduate to saving fifteen percent, twenty percent, and even more. And their financial lives change dramatically as a result. So will yours.

TOLERATION

“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”

—Helen Keller (1880-1968), author, lecturer, activist

Mark & Sarah Erickson

We were honored to Photograph Mark & Sarah's Wedding at Saint John's University in Collegeville, MN. Great New Couple...windy (weather), but their album, with that setting, will be beautiful! Can't wait to see it myself, after the designers get through with it.

Madeline Island Ferry

A photograph of the main transportation between Madeline Island and Bayfield, unless you can swim or have your own vessel...this is it. In the winter, albeit enough ice exists, an ice road will carry you in your vehicle between the two shores.

Perhaps The Single Best Habit One May Acquire

Slowly, day by day (and that is key), I am growing as a father, a husband, an executive, a neighbor, a servant, and a child. My faith assures me that grace began to reverse my old habitual patterns of unproductive, even destructive thinking. When I ponder what attributes I possessed and what practical actions enabled a positive reversal in my life and career, it was my fascination with history and language and, especially, a taste for reading that made the difference.Reading was not a habit during much of my working life as it is today. I remembered that, as a kid, I could escape into the theatre of the mind for hours of blissful entertainment. Later in life I found that I could spend quality time with some of the greatest thinkers and experts in any given field, any time I wanted. I could sit down and "listen" to these men and women (sometimes children) tell me profound truths that would help shape my destiny. I need only embrace certain principles and apply certain actions to my work and daily living.

Unfortunately, I took a hiatus from daily reading for much of my early adult life. I fell into easy routines of work, "unwind," watch TV, pass out, and do it again tomorrow. Weekends? They could only mean one thing - play and party. After all, we work hard five days a week and need to play some too, right? Fair enough, but what was I playing at exactly? Use your imagination. The point is these habits resulted in years of mediocre professional performance and little or no growth.

It was not until I rediscovered the pleasure of reading; of satisfying a thirst for knowing more about my business and personal interests that I began to remove the shackles of easy routines and growth-stunting habits. Reading is an action that requires a degree of discipline - to pick up the book or article and focus on the content. Watching TV is passive and addicting. It's much easier to push a button and let the images and ideas be handed to you without any use of your own creative imagination. Yet, there is some good programming available on TV which is entertaining, educational and enlightening. It can be one of many ways to relax and be entertained but it doesn't require any participation in the formation of ideas and images. Reading requires active participation and that is why it exercises the mind and strengthens the intellect. The brain is an organ which needs exercise or it atrophies like an unused muscle. Reading is both fuel and delicious food for the mind.My life is rich today in many ways.

Reading taught me that the changes I longed for could be found through working at changing me. The manuals for great human achievement, including volumes of Napoleon Hill's works, are free for the finding in public libraries and on the Internet.Reading something positive daily works. It works on the intellect which works on the emotions which work on desire which works on the subconscious mind which works on motives which work on our actions. Our positive actions give valuable service and therefore make us more valuable to our fellows and more cherished children of God.

Lupines in Bloom near Bayfield

Most everywhere you look, especially on roadways and some open fields, you find lupines in bloom...little do people realize however, that the lupine is a weed!

Weddings In Bayfield is LIVE!

Our New Website, serving the Chequamegon Bay, Bayfield and U.P. Of Michigan is now live!