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I met Cara and Greg for the first time on a chilly but gorgeous + sunny Halloween morning over at Winnemac park for their engagement photos. Right off the bat, I could tell they were two extremely kind, genuine people. By the end of it all I felt like I had known them for much […]

March 23, 2021

Greg & Cara | Winnemac Park Engagement

I met Bethany and Tony out in Lincoln Park for a late-summer engagement session. We started out at the lily ponds near the zoo and then moved over to Belmont Harbor. It was a beautiful night with a gorgeous sunset and the colors from this session were to die for! I LOVED getting to photograph […]

October 5, 2020

Tony & Bethany | Lincoln Park Engagement

Weird to think of life Pre-COVID, right?! Even weirder when you look back to this cold + snowy engagement session and realize that this is was the last thing you did before the national quarantine began. And now summer has gone by and fall is beginning and I am just baffled at how much of […]

September 12, 2020

Nate & Whitney | Minnesota Engagement

You guys. Proposal shoots. Are. So. Much. Fun. Warning: This will be a longer blurb, but worth it!) I met Stephen back in 2013 when I was on my gap year in Denmark. We went to church together (his dad is the pastor) and he was in the same youth group as my sister. I […]

December 4, 2019

Stephen & Amanda | North Avenue Beach Proposal