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Engagement photography is SO much fun!  Especially when the couple brings props that show their personality and interests.  I was super excited when Brad contacted me about doing a session in Carmel and asked if they could bring their cruiser bikes and their dog.  Helloooooo!  YES!!!  We went to one of my favorite spots in Carmel for the bike shots, which turned out to work perfectly, and then drove down to Big Sur for some beach pictures.  Brad and Julie are getting married in Hawaii this year and I am totally jealous of their photographer!  They were a blast to work with and I know that their wedding is going to be absolutely gorgeous.  Anyway, here are a whole bunch of my favorite images from the session…   

My younger sister and her hubby came out to Monterey to spend Christmas with us, and when Kim asked if I would do pictures for her and Rob, I couldn’t resist!  They are so great in front of the camera and so in love.  We had a fun time shooting in downtown Carmel and then drove to Big Sur for beach shots.  We got to the beach just as the sun had gone down over the ocean, but that didn’t mean that we weren’t still going to shoot for a good twenty minutes!  The light was pretty anyway!  Here are a whole bunch of favorites…

Our family had the big bi-annual Ashby reunion this summer and when I saw the location, I just about gasped!  A private lake, all to ourselves, complete with two little islands in the middle of the lake.  When I saw the rowboat, I decided to ask my sister-in-law, Beth, if she and her hubby would be interested in ’letting me’ take pictures of them with it.  Doing a session on a lake with a row boat has been a long time dream of mine, so I wasn’t ready to pass up the opportunity!  They are SO adorable together, and we had an awesome time doing their session (luckily, I carefully cropped out my husband on the Sea Doo in the background! LOL!).  Here are a bunch of faves… 

I couldn’t decide if I liked this next picture in color or black and white.  So I posted both! 

Thanks, Beth & Brian, for being such willing and gorgeous participants!!

Susie and Corey are getting married this Saturday, and I CAN’T WAIT!!!  I did their bridal pictures last weekend and they both looked so stunning.  It’s going to be a gorgeous wedding!  I am so behind on blogging that I never got a chance to post their engagment session we did back in the beginning of April.  Better late than never, right?    Soooo many favorites, but here are just a few that I love.

Sometimes it’s fun to just get out there and shoot… just for the heck of it!  That’s why my friend, Sandy Runner, and I planned this photo session — just for fun!  And it was!!  She found someone to let us use their classic car as a prop and brought an adorable cruiser bike, we each brought a set of models, and just enjoyed the evening “playing” (as I like to call it).    The first couple, Chelsea & Dominic, recently got engaged, and I was SO excited to meet them.  They were both really sweet and obviously very much in love… 

The second couple, Kimberly & Justin, were so photogenic and fun to work with!  Kimberly used to be roommates with my little sister, and when I asked my sis if she knew any cute, fun couples, she immediately thought of Kimberly & Justin.  Here are a ton more favorites from the session (I just couldn’t narrow down which ones to post… and there were a ton more favorites!).

I just got back from a whirlwind weekend in Utah!  My little sister got married last Saturday (wahoo!) and they hired me as their photographer!!  They weren’t able to get engagement pictures before last week, so we went out early and I did an engagement session for them on Thursday.  It was tons of fun!  I had a hard time narrowing down my favorites, so here are a whole bunch that I just LOVED…