Gold glitter/sequin/sparkle dresses are my favorite because they photograph so, so well. They turn into little shimmery magical fabrics of fabulousness in front of the camera and if everyone could just take a page out of this blog post and wear nothing but gold glitter dresses from now on, that would be great. It doesn’t even really have to be gold. Just any glitter or sequins. Basically, turn into a 1920s flapper and we’ll be good to go. Speaking of 1920s, does Tim here remind anyone else vaguely of Michael Pitt? We totally should have done a Boardwalk Empire themed engagement session with these guys, but I have a feeling it wouldn’t end up being particularly romantic since I’m pretty sure that show had at least one death per episode. Instead, Stephanie wore a beautiful sequin sparkle dress and Tim vaguely reminded me of Michael Pitt and we were graciously granted permission from the 21C Museum Hotel in Durham to shoot in their old bank vault in an un-Boardwalk Empire way (although the vault could have very well been from the early 1900s… and we did make Stephanie use a very old wall telephone… and they laid on a floor covered in fake money…….. you know what? Maybe this was more Boardwalk Empire than I thought). They posed dramatically, they cuddled for a while, they ate pizza while showing us the Stranger Thangs RIP Barb video. All in a day’s work. A special second thanks to Pie Pushers in downtown Durham for also graciously granting us permission to shoot in their shop.
Category: Couples
Lacey and David met while attending a computer programming bootcamp inside American Tobacco. Bootcamp makes it sound kind of scary… like they had to do a lot of push-ups or else be forced to code an entire WordPress theme from scratch. But they made it through! And now are successful computer people typing numbers into the interwebs and making things happen (that’s how it works, right?). They’re getting married in Florida, where Lacey is originally from, but decided to return to the scene of the bootcamp to have their engagement pictures taken with us! They live in Durham where they hang out with their dogs and play a lot of Yoshi video games. David proposed by reprogramming the end of the world 1-1 map of Yoshi’s Island. I didn’t even know that you could reprogram a popular video game map to bend it to your will unless you were some kind of super computer hacker but apparently this is an actual thing. Lacey played the game, and at the end it spelled out “Will You Marry Me?” in coins. There she was presented with two tubes: the green ‘yes’ tube and the red ‘no’ tube. Lacey got confused at this last part and accidentally took the red tube where she fell into a pit of spikes. She must’ve eventually took the green tube because here they are in pictures being obviously engaged. Congratulations, Lacey and David!
Becca and Andy e-mailed us with the task of photographing them in their renovated 70s house around their 10 year wedding anniversary. We love doing sessions at home, and we love anniversary sessions even more, and we love 70s contemporary architecture even more than that. So when we arrived at Becca and Andy’s 70s contemporary architecture paradise of a house, we were delighted. And then we saw that they have the same giant cat face pillow that we have. And the same doormat! And the same ceiling fan! And the same living room poofs! And while we don’t have any other actual objects in common, we do envision ourselves stealing the rest of their objects. Or, at the very least, telling us where they got them.
Their house is tremendously remodeled, all by them and with some help of some other handy people. It is absolutely beautiful, and has tons of light and a metal ceiling next to a wooden ceiling and a garage door in their living room and little built-in vase shelves and a wall full of little dots. They continue to work on the house (even though it doesn’t need it because it’s beautiful), but we were happy to document them in their current space at this current time. They are delightful people who know a lot about traveling and music and houses and we hope to absorb some of their knowledge and continue to use it for the power of good. I only trust people who have pillows in the shape of a giant cat face.