Engaged: Courtney and Geoge

Mother nature was throwing curveballs on Sunday: alternately beautiful and blustery. Courtney, George and I went back and forth a few times on whether we were going to postpone the shoot, but ultimately decided that Tennessee weather in the spring is going to be unpredictable no matter what. Got a bit of a late start, but we made the most of some patches of beautiful light before the storms started rolling in. An hour into the session, the serious weather showed up and we snapped a few dramatic sky shots before calling it a day. You guys still owe me a game of mini-golf! ;)

These 8 photos are my favorites of a brief but action-packed set.

A Boston Engagement

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Here's an engagement photo that I really love. Even though Raina & Jeff are getting married here in Nashville, they live in Boston and really wanted to incorporate their home city into their engagement session. We were fortunate that we were able to arrange to do their e-session up north, and we all wanted to imbue the images with a real sense of place.

I love this photo because its an exciting, cinematic image that's full of romance... but it also incorporates the city (not to mention the Red Sox!). Its very easy for this kind of shot to turn into a vacation-style "this is us in front of Fenway park: SMILE!" but this shot maintains its sense of place in a more subtle way that helps carry the story of Jeff & Raina. I also enjoy this shot for the composition: the way the frame is diaganolly bisected by the skyline, the way the streetlights and crosswalks form leading lines to the couple, and the way the rim-light from the headlamps really pulls the couple out of the background. I have ordered a fine-art silver gelatin fiber print of this shot to hang on my own wall.