Saint Joseph offers so many fun locations for wedding and engagement photos it’s sometimes hard to decide where to start and end a shoot. Of course when the sunset is this spectacular it almost doesn’t matter! All of these photos were taken within 5 minutes of one another and I think that highlights the diversity […]
Just found these awesome silhouette engagement photos we did last year while digging through my computer for something else… I loved this engagement shoot! We were way out in the dunes in Grand Mere Michigan with all this camping gear and ended up shooting all sorts of stuff in the dark! We actually hiked out […]
This is one of my favorite shots from Brent & Amanda’s winter engagement shoot which we shot in an apple orchard of all places! Talk about a beautiful location for some winter photos, we certainly got lucky having some of the apples and leaves still on the trees! I can’t wait to post more from […]
Winter engagement sessions can be a lot of fun, but when you have a winter as cold and brutal as the one we’ve had in Chicago this year it makes it a bit of a challenge to find that “perfect time” to take your engagement photos. Some times you just have to GO FOR IT, […]
One question I’m asked quite often is “What is the right time to do our engagement photos?”. The truth is that it just depends on the day. Take this day for example, we couldn’t have asked for more beautiful light, and it wasn’t too cold or windy! Of course there’s no telling what a day […]
Here are just a few of our favorite engagement photos from our session in downtown Chicago with Brooke & Joel. We waited all winter hoping to catch a snowy day for these engagement pictures but we just never seemed to time it right so a few weeks ago we finally said lets just go for […]
Just a quick picture this time, it’s from back in February and I just came across it and thought I’d put it up. It’s one of my favorite engagement photos ever from Milennium Park near the famous Bean in downtown Chicago. I’ve never been down here when it wasn’t at least a little crowded so […]
Just a few of our favorite Chicago engagement photos from a fall shoot with Laura and Rudy. We kept things simple and hit up some of the our favorite Chicago engagement picture locations like Michigan Avenue, Millenium Park, and the Art Institute. I always love being in the city in the fall, the colors are […]
Just a few of our favorite pictures from a beautiful Lake Michigan engagement session this summer, we’ve shot a ton of them and can’t wait to share more! This one took place in Pallisades Park near Covert Mi which has to be one of the coolest little lakeside neighborhoods I’ve ever shot in! All in […]
Gwen and Kam flew in from NY recently to wrap up some last minute wedding planning and we decided to try and squeeze in a quick engagement shoot on the beach. While most people might associate NY with NYC these two are actually some sort of environmental scientists… if it weren’t so late I’d remember […]
Chicago is one of my favorite places to shoot engagement photos and Millennium Park, in spite of all of the crowds, remains one of the most versatile locations in the city to take your engagement pictures. I met up with Rachael and Rhen in Chicago on a rather crazy weather day, there were severe thunderstorms […]
You know a couple is going to be great to work with on their wedding day to work with when they manage to have this much fun at an engagement session on the beach in spite of the crazy weather! Last Sunday started out Sunny and 65º so we were going to try for some […]
One of the best places in Chicago for indoor engagement photos in the winter is Salvage One, it’s an old warehouse located on West Hubbard St in the heart of Chicago. While Salvage One does charge couples for the right to take engagement pictures there the fee is really reasonable compared to most other “indoor” […]
This was the first time I’d ever shot engagement photos on the Beach in New Buffalo Michigan and I was pleasantly surprised at just how picturesque their beach and pier are… of course a perfect sunset doesn’t hurt!!! Megan and Anthony were up for anything and we had a great time in spite of the […]
This is the first time I’ve had an opportunity to shoot engagement photos on campus at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor but I certainly hope it’s not the last! Engagement pictures are fun to shoot just about anywhere but on a campus as beautiful as UofM’s the possibilities for pictures are basically endless, […]
Taking engagement photos in Chicago is always fun, because there are just so many possible locations to shoot in and around the city, except I found out, during the winter time! I met up with Chris and Erika to do a fun winter engagement shoot in Downtown Chicago a couple of weeks ago, we had […]
Fall is one of my favorite times of the year for engagement photos in Chicago, especially downtown in and around the Art Institute and Millennium Park! It never ceases to amaze me just how much fall color you can find in a city the size of Chicago but I guess that’s a testament to Mayor […]
A few weeks ago I had the chance to shoot engagement photos at Sunrise in Chicago. It always amazes me how many people have lived in Chicago for years and never taken the time to go down to the lake to watch the sun come up and light up the Chicago skyline early in the […]
Engagement photos with dogs are always fun, I met up with Chris and Kelly in Downtown Chicago to do some engagement pictures with their dogs but as soon as we met up it began to rain. We took shelter beneath this tree to wait out the rain but it was to no avail, we ended […]
One of the best locations in all of Chicago for shooting engagement photos is Chicago’s Millennium Park. If you’re recently engaged and looking for a place to do your engagement pictures you could do a lot worse than starting off or ending up in a location like Millennium Park. Chicago offers engaged couples a million […]
Here are a few of my favorite lighthouse engagement photos from the engagement shoot I did in Saint Joseph Michigan. You may recall I posted a couple of pictures from Lee and Katrina’s first engagement shoot a couple of weeks ago, our quest for the perfect sunset shots by the lighthouse had been cut short […]
Last week I shot some engagement photos on the beach in Saint Joseph Michigan just after a storm blew through. We had scheduled the engagement shoot a couple of months in advance so in spite of the sketchy weather we decided we’d see what we could come up with! I’ve got lots more photos to […]
Several weeks ago I was blessed with the opportunity to shoot engagement photos at the Chicago Botanical Gardens in Glencoe IL which is just north of the city. If you live north of the City of Chicago and are looking for a place to do engagement photos or even pictures on your wedding day, the […]
A couple of weeks ago I had a chance to shoot some beautiful engagement photos by the beach in Southwest Michigan. The engagement session took place in Saint Joseph and only lasted a couple of hours but we had a great time and in spite of some threatening skies we didn’t get rained, YAY! One […]
What do you get when you cross a happily engaged couple with a crazy photographer and a lumber yard… why beautiful engagement photos of course!! Actually, funny story, we were in Sawyer Michigan taking these photos in no joke… a lumber yard when the owner of the lumber yard pulled up in his pickup truck. […]
So a couple of weeks ago this amazingly thoughtful guy named Stu contacted me about the possibility of taking engagement pictures of the moment he actually proposed to his girlfriend Anna. He wanted to do the proposal at sunset and he also wanted it to be a complete surprise, so we needed to make sure […]
Last Friday I met up with Whitney & Ben to do engagement photos on the beach here in Southwest Michigan. We really lucked out with the weather for this engagement shoot because as it turns out it was one of the only beautiful days of the week! Whitney and Ben love the outdoors and are […]
This week I met up with Kara and Brian to shoot Engagement Photos in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Anyone who is familiar with downtown Chicago knows what an amazing place Millennium Park can be for engagement pictures, there are gorgeous gardens, beautiful sculptures, concerts, sky scrapers, Michigan Avenue, and people… did I mention people? Yes… while […]
Yesterday I shared some of the engagement photos I did of Eric and Jessica with their horses in the country side and today I’m sharing a few of my favorites of just the two of them on the farm. We had a beautiful afternoon to work with and the location was stunning with beautiful views […]
When I met Jessica several months ago she had one very important question for me, Can you shoot some of our engagement pictures with our horses? Of course I can, was my immediate response! Now admittedly, I’ve never shot engagement photos with horses before but I love a good challenge and incorporating meaningful things into […]