This incredible place is the setting for Eve On the Lake, with Eve and Lake Minnetonka being the main characters in the book. The true events of these excursions and how Eve likes to remember them as she falls asleep at night is the story.

Todd, the author of Eve On the Lake used his photography and graphic design skills to beautifully re-create Eve’s experience of a day and night living on and exploring Lake Minnetonka. Each page features an actual photograph taken on the lake, or in or around Eve’s house. Each photograph is digitally enhanced to appear as a watercolor painting. Most of the book’s photos were taken by Todd, some by Eve’s mom and one photo was actually shot by little Eve herself.

Releasing five records of his own music and producing four others, he found himself doing the art and graphic design for most of these records’ packaging. Music scoring for film is what originally got him involved in a video production company as well. This small company, of which he was part owner, expanded into doing web design and designing marketing materials for businesses thus honing his graphic design skills further.

As part of his company’s video services, he began video recording test procedures for water infiltration on the window installations of residential buildings. He noticed that this new industry was lacking in proper test equipment, and so he set out to invent a special spray rack to be used by the testing engineers. He had it patented and put it on the market. This has led him into a new, on-going business venture. His company now offers other products, making these test procedures much easier to perform efficiently and accurately.

But his new company took him away from his artistic and creative endeavors. Longing for a project to satisfy his artistic side, he began creating the Eve On the Lake book. Although a demanding undertaking, it was enjoyable and even relaxing for him to work on --- it satisfied his desire to spend time with his daughter, now his biggest passion in life. It also meant spending time on Lake Minnetonka and developing his photos into artistic illustrations.

The year 2005 has seen the kick off of his newest business, the completion of both recording and graphic design for two full-length CDs – one of his own original music and that of Eve’s mom’s original music, playing music live with Eve’s mom for the largest audience of their lives so far (about 6000), and producing Eve On the Lake from start to finish.