Beth+Ben: Sneak Peek

Finally! We've been swamped this week, and we're JUST getting up this sneak peek from last weekend's engagement session. Enjoy, and more coming soon!





So, this picture would usually get trashed. It's blurry. I saw the motorcycle coming, so I wound up my aperture to slow the shutter speed down because I thought it'd be awesome to have a blurred Honda Gold Wing leaving the frame of the picture. Well, I wound it up a bit too much, and the whole thing's blurry. But then I realized that my reflection showed up in the zooming-by motorcycle's chrome wheel-cover thing (shows how much I know about motorcycles!). I thought that was pretty sweet. I even have my favorite hat from London on!


Beth and Ben: your pictures are almost finished, so the full post won't be long in coming.
Cheers!

Emily + Jeremy

We had a great time with Emily and Jeremy in downtown Grand Rapids. Our original date was rained out, but this beautiful blue-skied, big-clouded day was per-fect. Emily and Jeremy were great with one another, and were up for anything!

Case in point: we found this great wooden walkway along the river that had nice light, and interesting geometry for a few pictures, but it looked like a herd of 2 million spiders converge at this exact point every night for the spider equivalent of Woodstock. There were webs EVERYWHERE. But no spiders. Very strange. I asked Jeremy if he minded leaning against the railing if I de-webbed it a bit with my foot. I'm not really sure if I would have said yes to that request, but Jeremy out-manned yours truly and sat right down! (We made sure Emily leaned on Jeremy's shoulder, instead of the railing, with that black dress on and all.)







I realllly like this one. Leandra always gets romantic ones like this.


You can't resist a nice grassy knoll when there's a big blue sky like this to top it off.


At the Gerald Ford museum.






I'd say "nice legs!" if it were appropriate. Emily might feel threatened if she knew I was checking out Jeremy's legs, though.






Great smile!

Emily and Jeremy's wedding is just around the corner in September.... but before Emily and Jeremy get more blog-time, you'll see Beth and Ben's and pictures from Jessica and Matt's wedding earlier in August.

Jenny + Adam

Jenny and Adam have an ease about them that's easy to see when they're together. They're an easy-going couple that love each other well. We're excited about their wedding in June!





You guys look smokin'!


The next two are in the same spot...


...but from different perspectives. Love 'em both!


sweet alley + good lookin' people + great light + kisses =
(We like this one a lot.)




This one reminds me of the last scene in Castaway, with the intersecting roads. Only the guy gets the girl in this one, and everybody didn't just finish crying about a volleyball.


We're at this great old, little country church south of Elkhart. It was a perfect spot to end the session.














This one is my favorite. An all-time favorite, I think.


The rest of Emily and Jeremy's pictures are coming soon!

Emily + Jeremy: Sneak Peek

We've been quite busy this past week or two, and forgot to post a sneak peek of Emily and Jeremy's! The pictures are almost done, so here's two until the rest go up!

Molly + Jordan

Finally... the rest from Molly and Jordan's engagement session. They were so comfortable with each other. It made getting good pictures of them oh-so-easy!









This is my favorite.


We were on a bench identical to this one on another path nearby when two little old ladies walked right into the picture and ambled--no, meandered--on down the path, sure to be in the background for at least another 2 hours. We decided to move to this one.








Love this one. It's Leandra's.










Molly and Jordan, we're really looking forward to the wedding next month!

Adam + Jenny: Sneak Peek

Just a few from Adam and Jenny's just over a week ago...

A warmer, hazy look for the bright, sunny evening we had.


Didn't even have to suggest this. The picture literally fell into my lap (camera).




So, I had to post this one because we were talking about politics (which is something we usually don't do on engagement sessions because you never know where someone else is coming from, and it doesn't really help along the romantic feel of the pictures we want to get. But I've known Adam since 2nd grade, so that "guideline" didn't really count.) and we turned into this alley and found this bumper sticker on the door. I usually think it's funny when people have "Kerry Edwards" stickers still on their car (or the flying "W", for that matter) because it's so, last election. This, however, trumps all of those by... two decades.



Stay tuned for the full posts of Molly + Jordan and the rest of Adam and Jenny's!