Best of 2010 :: Engagements

It's hard to explain just how much I love shooting engagement sessions. Aside from the fact that I get to have a ridiculously in love, totally fun couple in front of my camera, engagement sessions give me an opportunity to really get to know the bride and groom. A wedding is such a monumental time in a person's life and it's crucial that both the bride and groom really, really, really like the people they choose to surround themselves with - photographer included. By setting aside time to grab coffee, chat about life, and run around town taking fresh, genuine, beautiful pictures, a couple is able to truly get to know me, the girl who will be hanging out with them all.day.long. on their wedding day. What's more is that I am able to truly get to know the couple and because of this am better able to capture who they are as people. Photography is more than simply catching an act in time, it's capturing an emotion in time. The emotion felt by two people in love as they promise to spend forever by each other's side.

Best of 2010 :: Wedding Guests

If I could take pictures of wedding guests all day long, I would. Unfortunately for most people present at a nuptial, being asked to have to your picture taken is painfully awkward. Still I try, hard, to capture the fine and eclectic assortment of guests that can only be found together in the same room at such an event as a wedding. I've put together a handful of my favorite captures from this past year. Some of them are touching, some of them comical, and some are just plain ridiculous. In the end I think they're a pretty good representation of the melting pot of proper aunties, drunk uncles, and crazy college roommates that make up a truly great guest list. Enjoy.

Happy Tuesday,

Michelle

Best of 2010 :: Details

Welcome to Christmas week, friends! I cannot believe we're already rounding the corner and making the homestretch toward the new year! 2010 has been one crazy-beautiful-insane twelve months of awesomeness. I've spent the last few weeks reflecting on all that this past year has been while looking forward with excitement to the new year that lay ahead. This week I'll be writing a handful of Best of 2010 posts in which I'll be sharing my favorite photographs in a selection of categories from throughout the year. Today I'm kicking off these posts with something truly near and dear to my heart. Details are the salt to my pepper and the butter to my bread. In a sense, they make my world turn. I've had a blast looking through all of this summer's weddings and I couldn't be happier to present the following images in my Best of 2010 :: Details post. Sit back, relax, and enjoy some seeeeriously good looking eye candy!

Happy Christmas Week!

Michelle