
Boxing Ring Leads to Wedding Ring
Shelby met Cory when he was the instructor for her self-defense class so we incorporated some shots in a boxing ring into their engagement portrait session. This was a fun shoot. I had visions of Raging Bull in my head so we had a friend of theirs throw water into the background of a few […]

Gorgeous Light for Portraits
Courtney and Bard will be married this November. We got together at magic hour; the perfect time of day for engagement portraits. Magic hour is sometimes called golden hour and it usually falls within that last 2 hours before sunset with the sun is so low in the sky that its diffused more by the […]

Hot Air Balloon Ride Engagement Portraits
When I get together with couples for engagement portraits, I look at it as though I’m sort of a third wheel on a date and so I’m throwing out date ideas such as drive in movies, water parks, renting a boat on the lake, a walk through the zoo, etc. For years I’ve mentioned hot […]

Big Ideas for Engagement Portraits
The highest compliment for a photographer has to be when you are hired by another photographer or when a potential client schedules their wedding date around your availability to shoot it. Bethany is a photographer in Memphis and I was so flattered that she moved her date around my busy schedule to ensure that I […]