I met up with Liz and Jay a few weeks before the big day for their engagement session along the Esplanade. I first met them so long ago when they booked me for their wedding and then hadn’t seen them since. I am usually great with remembering faces, but I almost didn’t even recognize them when they waved at me from afar the day that we met for the shoot.  I think at first glance I thought they were models. Seriously, they are a gorgeous couple! :) Their wedding day has come and gone, so you’ll see those images up on the blog soon!

Here are some of my favorites from the session. Such amazing light!

I almost always meet clients before their wedding day, but I love doing engagement shoots because it gives me another opportunity to learn even more about them and their relationship. During this shoot I got to hear about how Phiyen and Jackson have been together for a long, long time, how they’re fortunate to have family nearby, and how they’re so immersed in each other’s families that they enjoy home-cooked meals with each side pretty much every week. How sweet!

We met up near the aquarium to start, then walked along the wharf, up to Christopher Columbus Park, and eventually rushed our way to Beacon Hill just before all natural light was mostly gone. I’m not even kidding about the rushing, either; I remember that day I immediately went into power-walk mode! :)

Some favorites..

Thanks again, Phiyen and Jackson! Can’t wait for the wedding in a couple of weeks!

A peek at Phiyen & Jackson, who will be getting married next month!

Linda and Adam are musicians, and while there was some initial talk of incorporating instrumental props and Symphony Hall into their engagement shoot last month, they decided to forego any musical reference and do the shoot along the Esplanade. I have to say that while the instruments and the Symphony would have been a cool change from what I’m used to shooting, I absolutely loved that the simplicity of the river and docks made it so easy to focus on and capture Linda and Adam’s relationship in the images. I think you can tell from the photos that that their relationship is filled with a lot of laughter (and maybe a few Eskimo kisses ;).

I’ve been noticing that I mention the weather a lot when I write about my shoots, and it’s just because it really is such a huge factor in when we choose to do them. For Linda and Adam’s shoot we started at 6:30am to catch what is usually amazing light at that time and since the forecast for that morning promised only a small window of time with sun and no rain. Of course, the forecast was wrong and there was no sun (but also no rain, yay!) and only immediately after we were done for the morning and after I was already on the bus on my way home did the clouds part and the sun came pouring down.

Anyway, despite the lack of sun, I think I was able to get some great images of them along the Esplanade. Like I said, it really wasn’t hard, since Linda and Adam are so sweet together. I don’t know how I get so lucky with such beautiful couples! :)

After we spent maybe ten minutes taking the previous dock photos, we found this written on another section of the same dock, and Linda and Adam were good enough sports to get back down against the cold wood to get some shots with it:

Thanks again for a fun shoot, Linda and Adam!

I met up with Jill and Brian last month for their engagement session, where we started in Beacon Hill and worked our way over to the Esplanade. It was actually my first time photographing on Acorn Street, the cute Beacon Hill alley that everyone and their mother photographs when they’re in the area. To be honest, I remember the first time I saw Acorn Street I thought, “This is it?” It really didn’t look all that impressive and was much smaller than I expected. But, somehow, on the day I came with Jill and Brian it transformed into something so charming and so pretty, and I really fell in love with it.

It usually takes most couples a little while to warm up to my camera, but Jill and Brian were really quick to get comfortable. Their chemistry as a couple is obvious, and they made it so easy to catch their smiles, laughter, and sweet little moments together. I was actually very surprised to learn that they first met on a blind date, so I can only guess that they had incredibly insightful friends to be able to make such a great match!

I’ll be shooting their wedding this October, and I’m so looking forward to it! Here are some of my favorites from the session.

Thanks again for a beautiful session, Jill and Brian!