Black Leather Studios

09/20/2022

A few from a wedding I did recently. It was a lot of fun and thank you for letting me share your day with you.

09/04/2022

Little pollinators at work.

08/09/2022

I think this season will be my last season of doing pictures for people. I have a couple more sessions planned and then I think I will be done.

It's been fun and I've learned a lot. I no longer have my assistant/editor/protege and to be honest it just isn't as much fun without her.

So thank you to everyone whom I had the opportunity to photograph and/or work with.

There will still be a few posts coming up from the sessions and I will probably still do scenic pics from time to time, gas prices permitting, so I will not be shutting down my page any time soon.

Thank you for looking.

06/11/2022

05/29/2022

My son, Matthew Reu.

03/05/2022

Just as Worhal had his own distinct style i think I've finally found my own. I really love the color burn. It makes me imagine scenery on some other world or dimension where the things that are so familiar here take on different hues.

10/20/2021

A few from a session I did with this young family.

10/09/2021

I don't do it anymore but I used to write short stories. It has been a long time since the last one but still every now and then I get the urge to write. This time I wanted to tell a story with photos instead of written words. The inspiration for this came from a music video that I found a couple years back. The song was by Mazzy Star and was called Into Dust. The song is beautiful and sad and made even more beautiful by the incredible singing voice of the vocalist, Hope Sandoval. I strongly encourage you to listen to the song. Unfortunately the video was not an official video and is now gone. But that video inspired me to do a series of photos telling my own story. Initially my own daughter was going to be the person in my photos for this project. Because of this and of how beautiful and moving the song is I can no longer listen to it even though it echos in my head. But I still wanted to do the project. So many thanks go to Halley Marko and Meghan Brink who are my friends and the two who volunteered to indulge my creative impulse. I am incredibly grateful to you both.

09/26/2021

Autumn on the James River, South Dakota

09/18/2021

Kampeska Sunrise

08/22/2021

An abandoned cemetery.

08/22/2021

Backlit sunflower.

08/16/2021

I was happy to capture some memories for this awesome couple. Congratulations to Richard Clark and Kristen White!

08/07/2021

I love places like this. They seem very old-world to me. A road that had once been busy and traveled is being reclaimed by nature.

07/07/2021

06/20/2021

I really like train car art and sometimes it really is art. A Google search told of this poor young lady's death. Very sad but she is memorialized on the side of a hopper car and now on my page as well. Her name was Vanessa Guillen.

06/19/2021

11/28/2020

The finished product. Just a small amount of rework, framed, and hung on the wall.
I honestly love doing this style and I wish people were interested in being photographed like this. Anyone who is interested in sitting for a portrait like this please let me know.

11/23/2020

From the 2021 Watertown Snow Queen Pageant. Pictured are this year's winners. I don't know the names of most of them but if anyone does please feel free to tag them into the post. Of course the beautiful young lady in the red and black, and the Jr Snow Queen runner up, is my own daughter Natali Reu. Congratulations to all of the winners!

11/15/2020

A few from an autumn family session. The weather actually cooperated nicely.

10/24/2020

A quick session with this beautiful young lady.

10/07/2020

A few of my favorites from a recent session. Thank you to Halley and Jason Marko and the boys.

08/16/2020

I really enjoy event photography but this year there have been a precious few events to attend. Today I finally made it to a tractor pull, first one of the season for me.

08/02/2020

I really like how the effects turned out with this one. To me it looks like an antique post card or even a painting.