June 28, 2009

Ryan+Brooke

This couple came up from Chicago (Ryan is originally from the area) and we had a beautiful evening for our session. We took advantage of the pretty landscaping down by the Rockford dam and caught some pretty golden light (I love how it just kisses her face in the pic below-- how about that? getting kissed by the sun and Ryan at the same time!) Notice in the pic above the little hearts in the bokeh (blur)? It's a little trick I learned recently-- borders on being cutesy so I thought maybe a vintage app would even things out. What do you think? I'll be shooting their wedding in October and am really looking forward to working with such nice people again.

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Hello, Melissa here (I've been watching a lot of Burt and Ernie-- hopefully you'll catch the reference) thanks for visiting my blog! I have a pretty cool job. I love photography, it has so many possibilities for artistic expression, my biggest dilemma is sticking to a style. My other cool "job" is mom to my daughter Aysah (at the moment she is 16 months old and all of you were right, it goes by so quickly). I am married to Mr Fix-it... seriously, things are fixed in his mere presence, it's impressive. My ambitions for this blog are to show off my recent work, recruit models, maybe throw out a few photography tips, show off my beautiful baby, let you know what I'm up to, and maybe throw out a saying from my mother (passed down from her mother).