Had a great session with future doctors Lara & Charles a few weeks ago. Its always wonderful to work with a couple that is fun and spontaneous: they needed very little direction. Mom says that Lara looks a bit like a young Meg Ryan, and I totally see that. We got just about the last of the fall color at Percy Warner Park, and then did a quick set of photos on Vanderbilt’s campus after dark.

Thanks for a fun session guys!

Its always nice to work with a couple that I know really gets what I’m all about, and Terrie & Troy are that kind of couple. Troy immediately endeared himself to me at our consultation when he compared my work to “something you might have seen in Life Magazine back in the 40′s or 50′s.” (When such brilliant photographers as Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White, and Alfred Eisenstaedt, worked for the publication). There is no surer way to the heart of a photographer than to compare him to his heroes, even if he’s not fit to have held their lens caps.

Troy proposed to Terrie atop a hill in Percy Warner Park, so we returned to that hill overlooking the Steeplechase for their engagement portraits. We had beautiful weather, and I had beautiful subjects with which to work. They were naturals on camera.

Troy has a Rubicon (Jeep), so any member of the Wrangler fraternity has to get at least one photo with it…

Thanks for a great session guys!

Wow its been a busy few weeks! Sorry to everyone if my emails have been a little more tardy than usual: lots of travel and TONS of work. I also owe some of my friends blog comments on their sites: again, my apologies.

Without further ado, here are some of my favorites from Courtney & Mike’s warm-weather engagement session here in Nashville! Thanks for being such great sports guys, and I’m really looking forward to your wedding just around the bend!

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 images were photographed at Percy Warner Park, home of the Nashville Steeplechase!