"...Like Thrift-Storing!"

for this beautiful couple's engagement shoot, i knew i wanted to do something a little different. i had recently heard of an engagement shoot where the photographer followed the couple around on a typical day and let them be in charge of where to go, and i thought the idea was brilliant. erica and joe were nice enough to be my guinea pigs for this idea, and i think they were just as excited about it as i was! joe drove us around the city from spot to spot, with each location revealing significance and deeper meaning to their relationship. from the railroad tracks (where joe could relive his childhood fascination with trains) to the brick wall and ladder downtown (where a role switch up occurred and erica got to be the firefighter for the day...thanks for being such a trooper with these shots joe! ;) to the bar where they first met. As we were wrapping up the shoot, and talking about how much fun it had been to hit up so many spots around the city, joe made the perfect comparison...."It's like thrift-storing through the city!"

I had so much fun with you guys! thanks for spending the day with me!

hope you enjoy the preview!!

beautiful ring!!

toughest shoot yet

 ok, so normally i would never publically announce that a shoot was incredibly hard, let alone title it the toughest shoot, but this kid you see here is my brother and he was incredibly tough, so i'm giving myself the right to announce it right here and now.

if you know my brother even just the tiniest bit, i'm sure you know that he is one giant ball of GOOF. this was supposed to be a five minute "lets take a christmas card picture" kind of shoot that turned into an hour of trying to get the kid to look remotely normal standing next to his gorgeous fiance. he spent the time making oh so lovely faces, pretending to be a model, mimicking the "hand on hip, knee popped out" pose, and playing with sticks. awesome, right?

his punishment for this behavior..... another shoot! tas and i have a fabulous vintage inspired shoot planned for this spring and a whole four months to train toph in the meantime. i know he can't wait.... but assuming he behaves himself, it is going to be one awesome shoot! i cannot wait!!!

 

 this is his "model face"...

 

soooo obsessed with her gorgeous ring!

 here's just a glimpse of the goofiness tas and i had to put up with: 

loveland sweets.... :)

fall-in' in love

***(updated) prior to this shoot, i had been trying to recruit some daap friends to do faux engagement pictures to build up my portfolio.....but then i got lucky and had the pleasure of doing a real engagement session with this cute couple! we had a great time on the perfect fall day...if you can't tell by the gorgeous yellow wonderland below. hope you guys enjoy!! :) ps. sorry for the cheesy title!

future mr. & mrs.

will & kate i mean, kaelyn and joe were my first engagement session. we packed up some homemade props, a pair of matching raybans, and a couple as stunning as royalty, and headed up to oxford to celebrate these "miami merger's" engagement. i went to the shoot expecting kaelyn to be all about the photos, and joe to be the typical guy who was just ready to get them over with. but that was not the case at all. joe cracked me up with how excited he was about the shoot...coming up with new ideas, taking credit for poses, and just totally hamming it up. i loved it!! k+j, thanks for being my guinea pigs and being my first engagement shoot :)