Category Archives: Engagements

When you’re a photographer…rain can be your worst enemy.  You watch the weather like it’s a some epic action movie… just waiting for that chance of precipitation to go from 51% to 49%.  Pacing around the house…watching the clouds.  Deciding if you should make the call or wait it out.  It’s endless torture.  When Hillary, Casey and […]

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From the very first sip of wine…I could tell Liz and Steve were my type of people.  They were comfortable and familiar.  And so easy to talk to.  The kind of people you feel like you’ve been friends with for years…when you’ve actually just met.  They have a sweetness about them that makes you instantly fall in […]

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Chicago weather is not for the faint of heart.  We spend all winter bundled up indoors praying for the day the sunshine reappears.  And then usually around June it decides to maybe peek it’s head out.  Spring?? No…we don’t get spring.  Then right as you think summer is here…it gets cold again.  And rains.  And […]

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As I got in my car at the end of our session…I’d felt like I just spent the evening hanging out with old friends.  Sure…I was ‘working‘ but there wasn’t a second that felt like it.  Between’s Jay’s hilarious sense of humor and Marissa’s equally as funny personality…my cheeks hurt by the time I was […]

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When Gary and I first met, he told me he wanted to live somewhere warm one day.  And not just California warm…like Hawaii.  And as much as I am dying to go to Hawaii…there was no way I was going to live there.  I quickly explained to him that the seasons are part of who […]

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