Shelby & Alex’s Engagement
Monday, November 9th, 2009Shelby and Alex live just a few houses down the street from us, so it was really easy for us to meet when they were looking for a wedding photographer!
I’ve gotta give these two credit: they’re cute, they dressed well, and looked good on camera. This makes my job easy. We started out headed to Radnor Lake, but the day was so beautiful that a line stretched down the street from the parking lot… Well, we were already running a bit late and were chasing the pretty light, so we were forced to park “creatively” in order to get some portraits before the sun dipped too low. We worked fast in the fading light and got some great shots that worked with the lovely fall colors, and fortunately the Rangers were kind enough to let us off with a warning on the parking spot.
From Radnor, we moved along to the Shelby Street bridge (what an appropriate street!). I’d told Alex at the start of the shoot that I always encourage uninhibited spontaneity during my engagement sessions, but he waited until we were up on the bride to surprise Shelby by picking her up and spinning her around. The reactions and expressions in that shot are natural and wonderful to me.
Thanks for the wonderful session guys!
Jessica & Josh’s Engagement
Saturday, November 7th, 2009We did this engagement session in two parts: on the first day we drove down to Fall Creek Falls to get some great fall colors and beautiful vistas… but between us we decided that rather than pursuing the second part of the session when we were tired from a long drive, we’d do part two on another evening.
Josh is a photographer himself, and actually proposed by painting his proposal with light on a long-exposure night shot. How cool is that? So we decided that we should incorporate some night photography into their engagement photos as well. We did part two of the session in downtown Nashville last night, and got some really stylish pictures of the two of them. I love the shot where Jessica is pulling on Josh’s tie, because it captures some of her feisty personality (woe betide you if you’re a tardy Cracker Barrel server!!!).
Jennifer & Josh’s Wedding
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009The day started out cloudy and cold, and I remember thinking to myself what a shame it was that we wouldn’t have any sunlight to pull out the beautiful fall colors in the trees on the Riley family farm. I needn’t have worried. Just a while before the ceremony, the clouds fled the sky to reveal a perfect autumn day here in Middle Tennessee.
A wedding photographer couldn’t ask for a more wonderful family with which to work. Jennifer’s parents are the kindest and most hospitable hosts one could hope to meet… and this day was also their wedding anniversary. Ron toasted both his daughter and new son-in-law, but also his amazing wife… and not a dry eye was left in the tent (as documented in Daniel’s moving photo).
The second-to-last image of Jennifer and Josh under the stars outside the tent was a fun (and technically tricky) way to document the night-time scene, while creating a romantic portrait of the newlyweds.
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Jennifer & Josh’s Pictage Gallery
images by Evan Baines and Daniel Shaw
image by Daniel Shaw
image by Daniel Shaw
image by Daniel Shaw
image by Daniel Shaw
beautiful stars out in the TN countryside…
the last dance…
Becky & John’s Engagement Session
Saturday, November 1st, 2008Becky and John wanted to feature some beautiful fall colors in their engagement portraits, and we sure found some beautiful shades! Becky is a friend of Kathy, one of my previous clients, and I’m really looking forward to their wedding in October 2009!
