I’m constantly telling my couples to choose somewhere meaningful for their engagement session. Plenty of people take this to mean their neighborhood, which is awesome and I love shooting in and around my peoples’ homes. But Anastasia and Nick took this a big leap further. A couple days before their engagement session (in New York City!), they changed their minds from somewhere scenic to their very own kitchen.
I’m really hard on my cameras. Lenses, I coddle to death but camera bodies get banged around, dropped, rattled, bumped. And because I like to have a camera on me at all times, it tends to be the one that can sustain the most damage. Therefore, my “bang around” camera is the D80, demoted from main camera to backup camera and finally to “oh, do I still have that?” camera. So it sits in my purse and comes out when I’m bored or on the metro and cursing myself for not doing more street.
It’s always nice when couples can incorporate some of their lives or some of their story into their engagement photos. I particularly enjoy visiting the spots where my couples got engaged and that’s exactly where we went for Amelia and Javier’s engagement session. Barrel Oak Winery, out in Delaplane, VA, was, by far, the most dog-friendly vineyard I have ever seen – the place was “littered” (haha, get it?) with canines. So we mostly ignored them all and soaked up the beautiful countryside.