Sturgeon Bay's Quarterdeck Marina | Scott and Heidi's Calendar Session

This isn’t a traditional engagement session. In fact, Scott and Heidi have been married quite a few years, and my wife Becky went to high school with one of their daughters. Instead, I got to photograph these two (and their dog Dottie) for UW Health’s upcoming calendar featuring organ transplant ambassadors.

If you aren’t familiar with their story, Scott needed a kidney transplant in 2016, and Heidi stepped up when multiple willing people were determined not to be good donor candidates. Although Heidi’s kidney was not a match for Scott, she enrolled in the University of Wisconsin Health Transplant Kidney Exchange Program. Within a month, Scott and Heidi were matched with another couple in the same situation, and Heidi was able to donate a kidney to them in exchange for a kidney for Scott. Since their surgeries, Heidi and Scott have made full recoveries and become avid ambassadors for organ transplant. In fact, their dog Dottie isn’t named after her spots, but after the organ donation dot on their drivers’ licenses.