Summer engagement fun!

Here's an engagement portrait session from this summer with a great story. First of all I love it when people have a really fun new location for me that I've never been to before. What a fun tire swing!


There were piles of cotton all around - the ground really was kind of white. It was a beautiful morning all around.






So, I had their engagement session scheduled, and then the night before I saw the coolest news on Facebook.


They had decided to just get married. Already done!




So I guess these pictures ended up being bride and groom portraits instead! Just in more comfortable clothes than usual.


Anyway if there is a prize for fun company doing a portrait session, these guys get it. I loved getting to spend time with them.


Congratulations!




I'm so excited for you and all that you have to come!


If you are interested in engagement portraits, I'd love to chat with you and discuss it! We can meet in person or talk on the phone, or you can email me. I also have more information about portrait sessions on my website.

Albuquerque engagement photography

New Year's resolutions. I almost always refuse to make them. This year - total reversal!  I'm setting goals all over the place.  One resolution - keep up with blogging. :)  Okay, I'm always better at this after the holidays are over, so an improvement in blogging won't be that shocking.  But how about all those other goals?  We're painting the kitchen red right now, for example, and this wasn't my goal but my husband just welded the most amazing panels for our back yard.  Just the tip of the iceberg.

I am so excited for my niece, who is getting married next year in July!  She and her fiance visited for the holidays and we thought it would be fun to do some engagement photography here.  They're from the Pacific Northwest, so Albuquerque is actually the opposite of their home.  Just think of how green and verdant their wedding photography will be next year. We had a lot of fun and miss having them around!















If you're interested in more information about wedding or engagement photography, you can call or email me and we can chat about it.

I love doing sessions at great places like this, but for lots of other session locations, see this blog page here.

Engagement session at UNM - in the smokey haze - {Albuquerque engagement photography}

I had a blast with this amazing couple when we hung around UNM one evening for an engagement session!  They both recently graduated from UNM and had lots of great ideas for places for pictures.  (I didn't go to UNM so all I really know is the duck pond... I needed to spend some time there looking around!)  They are getting married very soon - I'm so excited that I'll get to be their wedding photographer this weekend.  I couldn't have found a nicer couple to work with.  And with that I will wish them the all best as they prepare for their big weekend... :)









They were nonstop funny all evening.  I think at least 1/3 of their pictures turned up to be laughing pictures - that's just how the session was.  I loved it.














This was one of the smokey nights from the huge Arizona wildfire - I was really worried that the smoke would be chokingly thick, but it was okay.  We did have the bright red sun in the background a couple of times, but I didn't pause to set up additional light so it would show very well.  I was just grateful that the air wasn't too hazy!







If you're interested in more information about a wedding or engagement photography, you can call or email me - I would love to talk about it.

I love doing sessions at great places like this one, but for lots of other session locations, see this blog page here.

Engagement session in the bosque - {Albuquerque engagement photographry}

I was honored to be asked by my son's teacher to take her engagement portraits.  She is one of our favorite teachers ever - and we have had some excellent teachers!  We're so happy for her that she's getting married this summer.  I had a blast with her and her fiance - they were tons of fun.  She is a swimmer so it's appropriate that immediately we were in the water. :)  (Somehow when I go to the bosque I always end up in the water.)

I'll post a few favorites and I'm putting a slideshow at the end.











Best wishes to this amazing couple!

A splashy engagement session - {Albuquerque engagement photographer}

This was so much fun - this beautiful couple is getting married later this summer, and we went out one evening to do an engagement session. If she looks familiar, it's because this is her sister :) - this year one sister graduated and the other is getting married, so there's tons of good stuff going on with their family this summer!

We did some great pictures at the park:












Pictures at one of their special hiking places:






And they had a waterfight in the river.... a perfect engagement session! (Except for a few mosquito bites - next time I'll have to break down & use bugspray.)


This is one of my favorites. We got done with the water just in time to play with sparklers.


I'm really looking forward to their wedding! Thanks so much for having me, it was a great night.