I love Amy + Brian! These two have such a sweet connection. When I went home I hugged David a little tighter. These two  are also 100% comfortable with one another, which seems like a given.. yeah.. their engaged Lori!  I know I know. It’s just that every once in a while I get a couple that is so stinkin connected and in love and so sure of themselves and each other.. that I seriously just get to step back and shoot what happens. Amy + Brian are that couple. On top of that her family’s farm was to-die-for beautiful at 5 pm and I was in photographer heaven. I’m seriously the luckiest photographer with the best couples ever. On a side note.. these two met on a blind date which inspired me to be “match-maker” for a good good friend of mine. I should stick to photography… I’ll just leave it at that. Oh it went so well.. but groups dates, trying to set people up, have the potential to be so awkward and since I’m the queen of making normal situations awkward.. I should just stick to what I love. Nough said.

Photographer/Photography Corner:

I love fields + barns + cameras! It’s funny. My hands-down-favorite engagement location this time last year was anything urban/downtown/abandoned and I snarled at the thought of shooting in the country or anywhere near a cow field. How the times, they are a-changin. Today, I will take a farm/field/cow patty or two over a downtown shoot any day of the week. So funny. So much has changed over the last year. This time last year is when I first learned how to shoot in Manual mode. I consider this when I first became a “real” photographer. I started with just the “green box” as I called it.. straight auto for the first solid 6 months.. progressed to AV mode once I learned the beauties of Canon L lenses and Aperture. Then… one day in early November..  BOOM.. manual mode. There was an instant change in the images out of my camera. Yes, it took a while to train myself to constantly change my shutter speed.. a while. I remember changing lighting locations every 2 minutes and not changing my shutter speed to match but every 10 minutes and not realizing it until I got them into LR. I love hearing similar stories from blogs of my favorite big-time photographers. It all seems to be the same story too.. neat.  It’s a reflective day. A very good day.

Oh, and I’m getting lots of feedback about the blog loading very slowly.. and the more I stare at the horizontal-ness of the blog.. the more cross-eyed I get..  effort #1 to separate myself from all the photography sameness fail… try #2 straight ahead!