Engagements

02-04-2010

Surprise Engagement {Deni+Kate}

Deni contacted me the second week of January with a slightly different request. He was going to propose to his girlfriend Kate on the beach in Sayulita and wanted me to document the event. And there had to be Mariachi. Needless to say I was excited. And nervous. Unfortunately the weekend before he proposed the swell was huge and ate away at the beach in Sayulita. They even closed the road to put all of the pangas (fishing boats) out of the waves’ reach. So we switched it up and moved things to Villa Amor where they were staying. I had to be incognito in an area where you can’t necessarily be so incognito with two huge cameras on your back. But it worked! Kate had no idea that I was snapping away while Deni popped the question and then I was finally able to come out of hiding to get some shots of the newly engaged couple!

the ring…

I love these next few…

Mariachi!!!

This is probably my favorite from the day. This kid was so cute he couldn’t have been older than fifteen tops.

Kate’s eyes are absolutely stunning. She was so easy to photograph.

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01-21-2010

Family Portrait Session Nuevo Vallarta

engagements . portraits

Rena Bruins contacted me to set up a family portrait session for the four generations of her family that were going to be down here in Mexico! Unfortunately when I got to the hotel in Nuevo Vallarta the afternoon of the shoot there was a pretty somber vibe in the air. Rena’s grandmother had heart problems the night before and was rushed to the hospital. This meant we were without the grandparents and parents plus a few others, not to mention the fact the everyone was preoccupied with what had happened. We switched things up a bit and I ended up doing a session with who was left over, including Joel and Wendy who had gotten engaged recently!

Then came the rest of the family… how cute is Rena’s daughter Anya!

There was this great fence that I saw as we walked down to the beach. These are definitely some of my favorites from the day.

And who doesn’t want to take photos of super cute kids on a giant chess board?

When we got to the beach I took some more of Joel and Wendy…

They were all really psyched to do a jumping photo, but the sun hadn’t gone down enough to do a shadow jump so this is what we got…