Love me a good neighborhood engagement session. Elise + Nathan live in Lincoln Park together, so we used their engagement session to capture a few snapshots of their everyday lives… walking around to their favorite coffee and dessert shop, spent some time in front of their beautiful building, and ended the session with some sunset […]

Allison and David took me on a little Old Town tour of their favorite neighborhood hangouts – which is my absolute FAVORITE way to spend an engagement session! We started off at Happy Camper – where they frequent boozy coffees and bingo nights, walked over to Jeni’s Ice Cream for some Texas Sheet Cake, stopped […]

Kyla + Paul are another one of those couples who were supposed to get married in 2020, but we all know what happened. To add to the pandemic/difficulty getting married in the US in 2020… these two were supposed to get married in Ireland, where Paul is from, just a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, restrictions […]

Catching up on blogs from last summer… this one was in the heart of the pandemic! Stacy + Pete, like many of us during lock down, needed to get out of their place for some fresh air often – which landed them in the LA Fitness parking lot next to their building. They spent many […]

We get a lot of questions on how to prepare for your portrait session, what to wear, how to practice ‘posing’, etc. so we put together some info to help you get a better idea of what you’re getting yourselves into – and hopefully get you over those nerves! Bottom line, just be yourselves. This […]

To help explain how this engagement session went, let me quote Murphy at the end of the session… here’s the scene – we’re on North Ave. Beach taking the last few shots of the 2-hour session, when we see another couple taking their engagement photos nearby. I keep photographing Emily + Murphy when I hear […]

Tayler + Luke. What can I say about them… they’re obviously gorgeous, SO much fun, and just kind people. They welcomed me into their home to photograph where they’ve been spending most of the pandemic… snuggled up on their cozy couch in their West Loop high rise condo, curled up in Tay’s favorite little reading […]

Karen + Dan put their total trust in letting me choose the location for their engagement session. They didn’t want any of the typical spots around Chicago, and wanted their session to feel unique and true to them. I knew exactly where to take them, as I had been eyeing these spots for years around […]

We were lucky enough to get this Engagement Session in right before the shelter in place started… and it was the perfect session to hop around to some fun Logan Square spots. Austin + Brett’s favorite, Hopewell Brewing, was the starting place with their pup, Kaiju, before heading to Logan Hardware for some games, and […]

More than ever, these images are probably looking more and more familiar. Hanging at home on the couch, drinking your favorite cocktails, spending extra quality time with the fur babies. The shelter in place has given us all extra time with our loved ones/roommates–and I’ve seen people getting creative with ways to stay busy. Taking […]