Reflections of love

I know I talked up my photo shoot with my photographer friend way back in February and after being quiet for two months and even though I’ve had the pictures for almost a month now, I’ve failed to deliver the goods. So before you think I’m all talk, guess what I have for you? Let’s consider this a peace gift.

So let me give you a quick back story behind the genesis of this photo shoot. During one of my Christmas visits, I noticed the mister was hovering around one of those photography studios at the mall. We’ve been together for three years at that point and we don’t have too many pictures of us and I got it in my head that if we were going to have professional pictures, we should go all out. I floated the idea to my friend, Ed Pingol, and thankfully he agreed to shoot us.

We met in downtown Benicia for our one hour session. In the beginning, it was a little weird posing and being all purposely affectionate in front of people while someone was taking our picture, but after a while you get used to it and kind of forget about the guy with the camera [no offense Eddie!]. The best thing about Eddie is he’s really personable and easy to get along with, plus, he’s pretty funny and prefers to show you how he wants you to pose instead of just telling you. That is actually my favorite part.

We had some direction during the shoot but overall, he let us move around freely within the poses. Some of my favorite pictures are those where we were joking around and talking about other random things.

Overall, it was a great day and I am so glad we now have fantastic pictures of us! This is why I always wish I could just have a photographer on staff to follow us around. I smile whenever I look at these pictures because you can really see the love we have for one another. Is that a shallow thing to say about us? I would wait for someone else to say it, but you know, I’m just not that patient. Or humble. Whatever. We love each other. So there!

I HIGHLY recommend having an engagement session with your photographer. It will help ease you into being comfortable in front of the camera [while I practically live in front of a camera, it still took me a few shots before I was fully comfortable with this set up] as well as develop a rapport with your photographer. So if you get the opportunity, definitely do it! You won’t be sorry.

How did your engagement session go? What was your favorite part? And please share a link to your favorite picture if you have any!