4.21.10
Thanks for coming! We’re Renee and Ben Welstead, the photographers of LOVE EQUALS. We are passionate about capturing human connection through photographs. This is our blog, a place you’ll find our favorite recent work and our thoughts on life, not all of which will be photography related. We like other stuff too.
We’re husband and wife living in Lincoln, Nebraska. We love it here. We have a porch swing, ten coffee shops in a two mile radius and best friends that live a short walk away. In our seven years of marriage, we’ve learned to live, celebrate, fight, work, play, and grieve together. This journey isn’t rosy or perfect, so we promise not to be perfect either. We just like telling stories using pictures.
P.S. Yes, the large pictures of us are somewhat narcissistic. BUT, they were taken at a wonderful moment in our lives and we want you to get a feel for what we’re like before we meet. We hope you don’t think we’re too vain.
P.S.S. Yes we know, the hearts are cheesy.
9.3.10
“So when I lose my way, find me
When I lose loves chains, bind me
At the end of all my faith
to the end of all my days
when I forget my name, remind me…”
From The Don’t Give Up Project: Divide, CO. Images by The Leekers. Film is pretty great huh?
8.30.10
Holy Crap this was an amazing wedding. It was amazing for lots of reasons, their story, their loving families, their faith, their passion for one another…..we were honored to be apart of this intimate day and to be the ones to tell their wedding story through photographs. 
The National Quilt Museum. If you’ve never been there, go. It was the perfect backdrop. I LOVE these shots. 
These windows absolutely inspired us. 
These stairs were absolutely fantastically great. 
One of my favorites, I have no idea why, I just love it. 
the Don’t Give Up Project…
Finally!
Yellows, grays, yarn, typewriters, cheesecake, history, tears, love….
Dear friends, this is the beginning of the beginning! Thank you for letting us photograph you, it was such a blessing to us. We hope these images are a blessing to you.
Peace.
8.19.10
8.16.10
We went, we returned, and now we’re apart of the Don’t Give Up Project. Its about marriage, its about the power an image can hold when life takes its turns, its about the understanding that we are human. We. are. human. And humanity is worth capturing in the most honest way we know how. So we get to be apart of this group of other people that get to photograph humanity as well, and we encourage each other. My marriage is encouraged every time I see the Don’t Give Up sign. Ben is worth fighting for. We are worth fighting for. That is what we want to impart to our couples. What you have, feel, experience, believe, on your wedding day, is WORTH FIGHTING FOR.
Our first Don’t Give Up couple… Santiago & Sarah Cal 
Thank you friends, for your constant love and support. Ben and I couldn’t do it without you.
Peace.
