categoriesarchivessearchIt’s that time again. It’s time to look back at some of the best photos from 2016. Everyday we’ll be taking a look at a new category. Voting is open till 10:00am the next day and the winners will be announced Monday 23, 2017. The winning entries will each receive a 16×20 print. Today’s category: Engagement Sessions Take a look at the entries then vote at the bottom of this post.
1. Jump 
2. Beer 
3. Coffee 
4. Books 
5. Art 
6. Steps 
7. 12th Man 
7. Hammock 
9. CrossFit 
10. Bokeh 
Hello, I want you to meet Morgan, Trevor and their doghter Lexi.
These two both went to Texas aTm, didn’t know each other, and then went on to Baylor law where they met. I love that we came back here where their story started without them even knowing it.
My favorite part of their story is how they were friends and knew each other in law school but were not dating, Trevor had invited her and other friends out to his parent’s lake house but Morgan had elected to not go. She woke up one day to find he had changed his Facebook profile picture to one of JUST him and after some Nancy Drew type investigating Morgan figured out that Trevor and his girlfriend were no longer together. BOOM. She called him up and said I’m heading to the lake. :)
Trevor is a big dude, he could beat me up. I LOVED him getting attacked by this branch.
Thank you guys for romping all over campus with me.
It’s really rare to be able to start an engagement session at the location a couple first met. Especially when they first met over 20 years ago. With Audra & Brian we were lucky enough to do that. We went back to the place it all started. We went back to the house Audra grew up in.
Sometime around 1985 or so Audra & Brian’s fathers were coaches together for Texas ATM. (Whoop!) I’m sure this led to many family get togethers and team functions where little Audra & little Brian would spend hours playing together. That’s were they fell in love. OK, not really. They were like 5 years old or something, this isn’t a Disney movie. Anyway, They did hang out at Audra’s house so that’s where we went to start their session.
There were so many memories at this house. It was neat to see Audra back in that setting and hear her talk about how different yet familiar it felt. We were doing a few shots on the porch and I noticed a wasp’s nest in the corner. She told me a story about when she was little and her mom was stung by them and she almost ended up calling 911. I thought the wasps deserved to make the blog.
Then, like all good Aggies, we headed onto campus. Some of you may be familiar with this tree.
The thing is though… Audra & Brian didn’t go to ATM together. Audra’s dad took another coaching job a few states over and moved away, Brian’s dad did the same and that normally is how the story would end.
Brian did end up coming back and becoming a full grown Aggie so at least he gets credit for that.
Fast forward to 2012. Audra’s dad is still a college coach and he’s filling out his new staff. He know’s a former college of his has a well qualified son who is looking for a job so he decides to give Brian an shot. Well, one thing led to another and one day he’s doing his new boss a favor and picking up Audra from the airport. Well, one thing led to another and now they are getting married. Because that’s how awesome their story is.
Multiple states, multiple campuses, multiple teams. Their journey started together, went thousands of miles apart, then led them right back to each other.
Sometimes I feel bad charging people money for what I do. I mean take this session for instance. I got to hang out with cool people, run around Kyle Field, play Skip-Bo, and eat at Freebirds. I mean really. I should have paid them. How awesome are these two?
Did we bust out onto Kyle Field and shoot a ton of images? Why yes. Yes we did.
We then headed over to where they had their first date.
Josh proposed over a game of Skip-Bo. 50 cool points for him.
