images that embrace your personality
Weston and Kelly had their engagement session today. I had a location I had always wanted to use for portraits, and they were sweet enough to let me use it for their session. They were so cute together, and the images were aimed at showing how they interact with each other…though one is pretty abstract…in fact, see if you can spot the couple =)
Here are my favorites, enjoy!
John and Sara had their engagement session on Sunday.
Luckily, it hadn’t warmed up yet so we still had snow on the ground and the water was frozen over. Why is it important for the water to be frozen over? Well, the ice gave the lovely couple a way to access the cherry and spoon sculpture so we could get a fun picture =) Fun is a good descriptor to use for this couple, and I had a wonderful time getting to know them better. Here are my favorites, enjoy!
Kris and Chrissy had their engagement session today.
These two know how to have fun. They know the secret hotspots in town and it is wonderful to hear about their travel experiences. They also love cocktails and know the names of obscure drinks and alcohols, it is fascinating. So we definitely wanted to do a cosmopolitan engagement shoot that incorporated downtown Minneapolis. Kris even pulled out a fedora for some of the shots, he looked so dashing. But as dashing as Kris was, he couldn’t keep his eyes off of Chrissy, and I loved capturing the looks they gave each other.
Here are my favorites, enjoy!
I really enjoyed photographing Lindsey and Katy’s engagement session today. They have such fun personalities that are on the opposite ends of the spectrum yet compliment each other perfectly. I played up to Lindsey’s dramatic energetic lovey dovey side and Katy indulged us and just laughed at the antics. Even more special, they brought their son with to the shoot, so we were able to get some family pictures as well.
On the way to the session, Will had been writing on a marker board, and we decided to incorporate that as well. We had a good time thinking of fun things to write, and all the handwriting you see is Will’s (that is one smart kiddo, by the way!).
Here are my favorites from the session, enjoy!
In August, I posted part one of an engagement session with George and Amy. Since their courtship was primarily long distance, we came up with a neat idea to represent that. The image in the previous blog post below this one was the inspiration for our dual city engagement session.
We decided St Paul (where the couple now resides) would be more casual and the Chicago shoot would be fancier and we’d emphasise the skyscrapers since George used to work in one. In fact, we learned a lot about George in this session, 1) he had way too many stories that started with “my buddies and I skipped work” and 2) the guy can hail a cab like no one’s business ; ) Probably the biggest contrast in the shoots was that in St Paul, George was sweating like crazy and in Chicago, Amy was freezing…so it balanced out nicely.
I’ve also decided I want to do way more destination engagement sessions, it is so fun to have new locations to work with, especially ones that are as gorgeous as Chitown. Here are the images, let me know what you think!
