Tag: September

Joanna + Charles: Engagement Session

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Joanna first contacted me about her engagement session early this summer. She was the rare bride that wasn’t looking to book me for her wedding because she and Charles had elopement plans in the spring, but she wanted something special for her engagement session. We met in Bar Harbor, and my Second Shooter Extraordinaire, Jess, came with me for the shoot, grabbing some shots along the way, but mostly hauling my gear as we trekked all over Acadia Park, from the scenic trails around Jordan Pond House to the breathtaking views at the top of Cadillac Mountain, and even at one point hiding in the bushes with a speed light aimed at our adoring couple.

Joanna and Charles were sweet, quietly teasing one another and laughing throughout the shoot. It was a delight to be able to document their love story over the course of those couple of hours…enjoy! (Jess and I also spent part of our excuse-to-have-a-girls’-weekend taking each other’s portraits in Acadia the day before, and sometime soon I may actually get around to posting those!)

 

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Melissa + Michael: The Engagement Session

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I had a seriously hard time editing Melissa and Michael’s engagement shoot: not because the editing itself was hard — most of my editing now doesn’t involve much more than a quick crop or black and white conversion — but because it was so incredibly difficult to cull my favorites. The light at Gilsland Farm at sunset was so beautiful, Melissa and Mike were so comfortable and easy to shoot, and the love between them was so obvious–how to cut down 500 amazing shots to a manageable number seemed an impossible task to figure out.

Somehow though I managed it…and I LOVED shooting at Gilsland Farm. If you get a chance, you should totally check it out. It’s in Falmouth, and it’s part of the Maine Audubon, and while I was there, I actually managed to walk up on a young bald eagle, perched on a pile of brush, and then watch, mouth agape, as it took off with a few slow sweeps of its enormous wings under the huge overhanging branches of the tree above it and then out to the great beyond. (Scroll all the way to the bottom of this post for a peek!) I went home thinking I had maybe just experienced my best engagement shoot of a whole summer of amazing sunset engagement sessions.

And as promised…that eagle, caught from about 100 yards away with my 70-200mm zoom:

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