it would be impossible for me to love ashley and blake more.  these two have such a realness about them.  i loved their story and can’t wait to share more of it with you.  it was a little chilly when we shot, but their love managed to keep them both warm. ;)

engagement session on the land you grew up on with your grandmother’s quilt near the hay your boyfriend proposed to you at?  check.

i love how much blake makes ashley smile and laugh.

part of their story involves how they met at atm and then blake moved to california to become a fancy schmancy animator. (you’ve seen boardwalk empire right?  he basically makes each episode all on his own.)  anyway, every so often he comes all the way in from california to hug ashley.  it looks like this.
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thanks for sharing your awesomeness with me.

kim and david blew my brains out with engagement awesomeness.  these two have been dating for about 8 years and their level of comfort with each other is so apparent.  i love how secure kim is around david. they love to have little adventures and caddo lake state park was just the right setting for them.   they are totally into each other and that just jumped out into my camera.  don’t believe me?  take a look at just a few of their images.

It took me 2 minutes to decide Grace and Lucas are my new best friends.  This engagement session was just my excuse to hang out with them for 2 hours at the Dallas Arboretum.

I became a HUGE fan of Lisa & Rory about 3 minutes into their session.  They are the exact type of people I love to photograph.  He is fully present and completely in love with Lisa and she basically tuns into a middle school girl with a HUGE crush when she looks his way.  The story of how they met is so great and I can’t do it justice but I’ll do my best.

They both work together at a hospital and one day Rory spotted her pony tail walking around the ER.  A few days later her pony tail caught his eye again.  He finally decided to try and talk to her and the day he was set to approach Lisa she was no where to be found.  1 week went by, then 2, then 3.  Rory thought he had lost his chance when after 4 weeks she came back to work and he ran into her.  He stopped in his tracks and jumped all over the opportunity to talk to her.  Even though he was a bit creepy about it Lisa managed to stay interested in him and over the next few month they started courting.

Courting is kinda a funny word that we don’t really use any more.  It’s a throwback work to a time when a man would spend time with a young woman’s family and this would allow everyone to give an opinion about the relationship.  Courting is exactly what these two did.  Lisa went on and on about how much it meant to her that Rory would do this and how much it helped grow their relationship.

I love their story and I love the two of them.

Fast forward about a year or so and these two people are getting married.   I’m honored that they want me there when they start their marriage.

I have the best job ever.

Enjoy the images.

a few months ago lee proposed to this one girl names kristin. we thought going back to the place where it all went down would be a fun idea. check out a few of the images and if you have not been there, you totally need to check out lago del pino.