Archive for April, 2011

Vero Beach, Florida

Trevor and Keli had the location planned for us. Sometimes it is especially fun to have no idea what something is going to look like ahead of time. Then everything is new and full of possibilities. This hidden gem of a location where we shot their engagement session is also where their wedding will be. To avoid using up all our options we limited ourselves to just a few spots for their session and are saving the rest of the gorgeous nooks and crannies for their wedding day. It’s such a gorgeous place, I can’t wait to go back!

In unrelated news, couldn’t Trevor totally pass for Conan O’Brien’s more handsome younger brother? Team Coco.

I adore that she wore Tom’s

magical…

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St. Augustine, Florida

Saint Augustine is the (self-proclaimed) oldest city in the country. As far as American cities go, it is one of the most charming I’ve seen. We are there a lot. Nate’s family lives there and a lot our couples ask to shoot there. It’s easy to understand why. The downtown area of the city is magical. It’s gorgeous, it’s breezy, it’s charming, and it feels like you left America and were transported to some lost city in Europe. We love to go there to shoot but it can be hard to be creative after walking the same streets with our cameras time after time. For Amanda and Adam’s engagement session in our beloved little home away from home, we decided to take a break from the downtown blocks that we generally stroll and headed to a spot that we had discovered after making a wrong turn on our last trip. We shot 80% of this session on the property of this gorgeous church. It was perfect. And I am so happy with the images from this session. They are completely different from any other St. Augustine shoot we’ve ever done. They feel different. They are quieter. But so are Amanda and Adam. Our couples breathe energy into our images and from Amanda and Adam we got a quiet happiness. Gosh I just love them. I’ll stop now and let you take a look. Thanks Amanda and Adam for trusting us with a new location and some new ideas…

those eyes…

I’m so happy about this…

♥

doesn’t this just make you wanna hug someone?

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Walt Disney World | Lake Buena Vista, Florida

Larsen and Stephanie got married at Disney World. Well, not exactly… because if they really got married in one of the parks in Disney World, we wouldn’t have been allowed to shoot it because Disney has strange policies. Luckily, the world is pretty big…so they got married in the world, but not in the parks. Larsen and Stephanie were friends of ours before we met them to talk about their wedding and our photography so shooting their wedding was a bit different than shooting others. There was an added element of responsibility. We had to force ourselves to pay attention even more than we normally do. To forget that we live here, and that we know these people and these places, and to shoot it with both new eyes, and the eyes of friends. We had so much fun this day because Stephanie and Larsen spoiled us by inviting us to be guests as well as photographers and completely blew us away when Larsen asked Nate to be one of his witnesses at the signing of their ketubah. I got teary eyed during the signing. It was such a special honor. More photos to come soon, until then…

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