James Brosher Photography

Portfolio website for James Brosher, a Bloomington, Indiana based editorial and wedding photographer specializing in action, documentary, and portrait images.

James Brosher

Harvest

After the wedding this weekend, I’m back in the swing of things today after driving back to Peoria from Indiana at 7:45 a.m. this morning. When I got to work, my boss asked me to shoot something to go with an upcoming business story about the harvest. It was kind of an open-ended assignment where I could shoot something related. I talked to the reporter who pointed me towards an area northwest of town where one of his contacts was combining corn. I headed out and eventually found the group working a 70-acre field. The guys were pretty nice and allowed me to ride in the combine for a few passes through the field. I’ve never ridden in combine before so it was an interesting experience. I was kind of surprised how high tech the inside of the combine is with GPS and yield monitoring screens.

Mike Schachtrup watches out the windshield as he combines a field of corn on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, near the intersection of Alta Lane and Radnor Road. Schachtrup farms about 6,000 acres in Peoria, Tazewell, Knox and Warren counties with his brothers including this 70-acre field northwest of Peoria.
Mike Schachtrup watches out the windshield as he combines a field of corn on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, near the intersection of Alta Lane and Radnor Road. Schachtrup farms about 6,000 acres in Peoria, Tazewell, Knox and Warren counties with his brothers including this 70-acre field northwest of Peoria.
Mike Schachtrup combines a field of corn on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, near the intersection of Alta Lane and Radnor Road. Schachtrup farms about 6,000 acres in Peoria, Tazewell, Knox and Warren counties with his brothers including this 70-acre field northwest of Peoria.
Mike Schachtrup combines a field of corn on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, near the intersection of Alta Lane and Radnor Road. Schachtrup farms about 6,000 acres in Peoria, Tazewell, Knox and Warren counties with his brothers including this 70-acre field northwest of Peoria.

Snapshots from a wedding

This weekend was very special for me. I was a groomsman in my best friend’s wedding. Since I was in the wedding, I wasn’t the official photographer, but I did manage to snap a few shots here and there throughout the weekend. As always, I looked for the more in-between moments. During the ceremony, I rigged a remote camera in a balcony and tripped the shutter using a PocketWizard in my pocket. I’m the last groomsman on the right side in the first shot. The second shot is the groom, Ian Shannon, warming up just before the start of the ceremony in the basement of the church. He played “Everlong” by the Foo Fighters as his bride, Erica Murray, walked down the aisle. It was a beautiful ceremony and reception, and I was honored to be a part of it. It was weird to be back in front of the camera although as you can see below I managed to get behind it a few times.

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A personal feature

For the first time in several years, I’m going to a wedding that I’m not photographing for hire. In fact, I’m in the wedding. It’ll definitely be a new experience for me since I’m kind of used to being the fly on the wall. The lucky couple are my best friends Ian Shannon and Erica Murray, who are pictured below. I thought I’d share this frame since they’re getting hitched this weekend. This was a candid moment between the two as Ian was recording with his band in her apartment.

Tractor talk

Terry Kellstedt, right, smiles as he looks over a 1941 John Deere Model B tractor owned by Terry Beachler, left, during an event on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, at the Lutheran Hillside Village.
Terry Kellstedt, right, smiles as he looks over a 1941 John Deere Model B tractor owned by Terry Beachler, left, during an event on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, at the Lutheran Hillside Village.
Terry Beachler, right, bends down to talk about his 1941 John Deere Model B tractor with Al Foster during an event on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, at Lutheran Hillside Village. Foster told Beachler he remembered the days when tractors had steel wheels without rubber tires.
Terry Beachler, right, bends down to talk about his 1941 John Deere Model B tractor with Al Foster during an event on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, at Lutheran Hillside Village. Foster told Beachler he remembered the days when tractors had steel wheels without rubber tires.