I’m pleased to introduce to you to Jen and Spenser. We spent a recent evening out at Champoeg Park and then in Aurora shooting engagement pictures. Let’s just say that my camera loves these two.

Watching these two interact is like watching a romantic comedy. They’re so very obviously head over heels in love with eachother and Spenser is one of those quiet but hilarious guys that knows exactly how to get a rise out his girl. We’d be in the middle of posing, and he’d whisper something to Jen and she’d immediately  throw her head back, laughing hysterically.  Jen has a great energy about her and it compliments her husband-to-be as perfectly as I’ve ever seen.  Her incredible sense of style and her vision for their session made my job easy!

I can’t wait for the wedding you two, I know it’s still a year away but it’ll be worth the wait!

To a photographer, Portland’s Pearl District is like a slice of heaven. I never get tired of shooting there, and I find great new backgrounds at every session. I simply love it. Megan and Travis’ engagement session was no exception.

We chatted as we made our through the busy city streets, stopping to shoot as often as inspiration would strike. The session gave me a great chance to get to know  their personalities and styles a little better in preparation for their December wedding up at Mt. Hood (which I’m 100% psyched for!).  I love shooting engagement sessions if for no other reason than breaking the ice. It’s so nice to show up on wedding day and feel like old friends!

I picked a few of my favorites below. I think the hand-holding shot will be finding a spot on my studio wall in the near future! 

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From the moment Josh met Sarah he was smitten, and he knew without a doubt that she was the girl for him… Unfortunately for Josh,  Sarah wasn’t quite so sure! Josh has been waiting patiently 8 long years  for Sarah realize how perfect they are for eachother. Now that she has finally seen the light, they’ll be tying the knot this September.  I just love that Josh was able to wait patiently knowing that they were designed for each other, and that one day Sarah would come around.  They have such a great love story and it’s a great reminder that all things really do have a time and a season.

We did their engagement session at a little church nesled on a hillside on the outskirts of McMinnville.  This is where Josh proposed to Sarah and it couldn’t have been a more perfect setting for their engagement pictures.

Some people are simply made for eachother, and Sam and AJ are a shining example. Their smiles came so incredibly naturally and their playfulness and genuineness made shooting their engagement session a walk in the park, literally!  I’m convinced that Sam could be a supermodel without even having work at it, and yes, if it were possible I’d steal her dimples in a heartbeat. AJ just beams when he’s next to her, walking around with the proud look of a very lucky groom who can’t wait to take her  ’off the market’  for good.

I have known Jason for as long as I have known Corey (my hubs).  Corey and Jason have been friends since elementary school,  played on the same soccer team, hiked, vacationed, and were roommates all through college. He was the best man in our wedding, and now Corey will be in his wedding this September.

Back in our college days I would visit Corey frequently down at Oregon State. This, coincidentally, also meant I was visiting Jason (since their dorm room was  little bigger than a closet).  As their freshman year went on,  their room got grosser and grosser. Once, I made the mistake of opening their mini-fridge (for the first and last time)  and found an entire fridge of Tupperware containers filled with solid mold. I’m not talking about week old food that has a little mold on it, I’m talking about substantial volumes of green, slimy, furry, smelly mold that had made the original contents of the containers 100% unidentifiable.   They both just looked at each other, laughed and said they were keeping the 8 month old food around as a science experiment, neither wanting to admit that they were both too lazy to clean out the fridge.

A couple years later I met Megan, the object of Jason’s affection. I was again visiting Corey down at Oregon State, this time at their rental house. We were hanging out in the kitchen chatting and planning dinner, when Megan opened the fridge to get a quick inventory of our food options. She turned around with a puzzled look on her face, holding a container of 3 month old, half decomposed pizza. We confronted the boys about it, and as expected they just grinned, giggled and pretended that the disgusting old pizza was part of the same ongoing science experiment.  Megan just broke out in laughter right along with the boys, not really grossed out at all. And when she opened up the revolting container to inspect the mold formations more closely, I knew that Jason had truly found his other half.

Fast forward to the present… I’ve now been dealing with Corey’s moldy old food containers in my own fridge for almost 4 years (trust me, there is nothing scientific about them).   And, unless Jason has turned over some new leaf, I would imagine that Megan will be waging her own moldy-tupperware-battles for years to come.

I was a little nervous to shoot their engagement session yesterday, it is always weird to photograph someone you know really well.  I should have know it would be a breeze!  Megan and Jason are such a perfect fit, and they both exude 100% comfort and contentment in each other. During pictures Jason would say or do something super cheesy, and Megan’s infectious laugh would get me laughing right along with both of them.  I love it when an engagement session doesn’t need any posing at all and I can just follow the couple around and capture their natural interactions. That was the case with these two, and I can’t wait for wedding photos.

Here’s a few shots from the sesh…

After rescheduling 3 times due to rain, we finally got a gorgeous Oregon spring day on Saturday for a very fun, and very urban-ish engagement session.  Chris and Christy are a made-for-each-other couple who won an engagement shoot at the Salem Bridal Show last January and it was a blast hangin’ out downtown with them.