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Mike & Brittany | Chicago Engagement Photography

While visiting my family & Katie’s family in Illinois this holiday week, we were able to carve out some time to spend with friends.  My best friend, Mike, and his fiancee, Brittany, already had tickets to the Friday afternoon Cubs game, so we decided to join them, but not before a detour through the South Pond area of Lincoln Park Zoo to take some engagement pictures!  I have always wanted to take engagement or wedding pictures at this location because of the really cool architecture and the combination of the outdoor/natural feel with the awesome views of the Chicago skyline.  (The Hancock Building, left, and the Sears Tower, faint right, are both shown in second picture below, which I love.)  And it works out perfect when you also get to hang out with really good friends who recently got engaged!  Anyway, we spent about an hour and half taking pictures before finally catching a cab up to Wrigley Field, buying some pizza, scalping two tickets for me and Katie, and then watching the Cubs lose to the Pirates (sigh).  It was a lot of fun, and nothing beats Chicago in the summer (Chicago in the fall is pretty close, though).  These few images below were just the first few to catch my eye as I was reviewing them in Lightroom – expect more to come in the near future!  Congrats to Mike & Brittany!  Can’t wait for the wedding in September!

 

 

 

 

 

Europe Trip: Preview

Well, I posted these images on Facebook already, so I’m guessing that most people have seen them.  But I haven’t posted them on the blog yet.  I’m planning on doing a 3-part series here on the blog (after this) about our trip to Europe, and instead of simply posting pictures, I’ll be elaborating on the images themselves and other details about our trip.  The 3-part series will consist of pictures from London, Oxford, and Paris/Versailles.  You won’t want to miss it.  Anyways, here are three pictures to whet your appetite.  Keep your eyes open for more and come back soon.

Ben & Bus
Big Ben (London, UK)
The Radcliffe Camera

The Radcliffe Camera (Oxford, UK)

 

Twin Towers

Eiffel Tower (Paris, France)

 

The Scharnett Wedding

My last blog post was a selection of pictures from a wedding where I WASN’T the official wedding photographer.  The photographer for Zac & Lisa’s wedding was a guy who kept referring to himself as “Uncle Brian,” making corny jokes, doing strange dance moves, and making everyone feel a little awkward.  I’m sure his pictures were nice, but he pretty much stuck to the formals – nothing extremely creative, from what I saw.


Thankfully, I was the main photographer for Paul & Anne (McLain) Scharnett’s wedding.  I say thankfully because the weekend was a TON of fun.  I lived with Paul for two (or three) years in college – it’s all a blur now; and I knew Anne really well since she lived in the girls’ house next door to our guys’ cooperative.  This wedding was a mini-reunion of sorts, which every “Koin-Strat” wedding seems to be.  But, being the photographer, I got to spend most of the ENTIRE weekend with a group of great people.



I hope the pictures that I deliver will portray the love and excitement that Paul & Anne share for each other.  Since this was my first wedding and I was shooting solo, there are a couple things I would do differently in the future.  But overall, I’m happy with the pictures so far – I’m still a little ways from being done with editing them all.  Here’s a bunch that are done.  Click on any of them for a larger version.  ENJOY!  And comment if you have suggestions/thoughts/criticisms.  I’ll be posting several more pictures in the future. Keep checking back!