Category: Couples

April 1, 2016

Sara+Jackson // Engagement in Durham.

YOU GUYS, JACKSON IS A PALEONTOLOGIST!!!

Phew, okay, got that off my chest.

We were so. freaking. excited. to meet our first paleontologist client and I had a mental list of all sorts of dinosaur-related questions I was going to ask him. Then they lured us into the session only to tell us that he’s not a dinosaur kind of paleontologist. We almost walked away right there, but they quickly (and smartly) followed up with the fact that Jackson gets to go to other countries to do that thing where you chip at bones and dust them off like the opening scene of Jurassic Park. And though they’re not dinosaur bones he’s digging for, he’s still digging and dusting and chipping! Lookin’ for stuff! Old things! Mostly other species of things that came after dinosaurs but that’s not important. What’s important is that he’s out there doing the job that every person has secretly wanted since the age of 5. He found a skull of something once that they hadn’t found a skull for yet! And I have full confidence that someday he’ll be looking for something un-dinosaur related and stumble across a dinosaur anyway and then I can say I know that guy.

Sara is not a paleontologist, but she is engaged to one. She is currently in charge of making soon-to-be alumni happy at Duke! I’ll tell you what would make them happy, Sara, and that’s taking them on a trip with Jackson to go chip and dust.

: Couple standing in shadow

: Couple standing by door

: Couple talking on street

: Couple laughing by buildings in downtown Durham

: Silhouette of Bull in Durham

: Couple near American Tobacco Campus

: Silhouette of Durham North Carolina

: Couple in front of green door

: Engagement session in downtown Durham

: Engagement photos near American Tobacco Campus

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: Couple holding hands while walking during engagement session

: Engagement session in front of mural in downtown Durham

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: Couple standing in front of mural in downtown Durham

: People laughing during engagement session

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: Couple walking around downtown Durham

: Silhouette of couple in American Tobacco

: American Tobacco Campus engagement pictures

: Couple laughing during engagement session

: Couple with mural in downtown Durham

: Engagement session in ATC

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: Couple laughing during engagement session

: Silhouette picture of couple in American Tobacco

: Durham NC engagement pictures

: Couple overlooking American Tobacco

: American Tobacco Campus engagement pictures

: Low light engagement pictures

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March 30, 2016

Gretchen+Jason // Anniversary.

These guys. They’re like us, only they don’t have two cats. But sometimes they borrow their friend’s cat, so they’re basically us. Gretchen and Jason are two of our favorite people. We first met Gretchen doing weddings as she is a fabulous wedding planner. She owns her own business called RedBird Events (go check her website out!) and if you hire both us and Gretchen, you may come across us whispering in a corner somewhere. And it might look suspicious, but really we’re just planning our Halloween parties and comparing notes on costumes. When we finally decided to hang out together in real life, we met her husband Jason for the first time. He showed up wearing this shirt, whose image has been my go-to Facebook timeline image every November for the past several years, and so we loved him immediately.

Interesting Fact about Gretchen+Jason: “Gretchen and I have both dislocated the same knee. It’s our left one. I don’t mean this as a collective shared knee, but that we’ve both dislocated our own knees. Although, now I’m wondering what a shared knee would look like. Assuming we were actually physically joined together at marriage into something like conjoined twins, I’m wondering where we’d connect and how it would look. I’ll ponder this a bit more today.”

Now we are lifer friends and we enjoy their company. Jason does a mean Morrissey impression during RockBand, and Gretchen sings adorable songs that she writes about Star Wars, so they’re kind of my favorite band when you put them both together. Here are some options for their future album cover:

: NC State Legislature Building

: NC State Legislature Building

: Black and white couple portrait in Raleigh

: Quirky portrait photographers in Raleigh

: NC State Legislature Building

: Black and white portrait

: NC State Legislature Building

: Couple sitting on couch in Raleigh

: NC State Legislature Building

: Couple laughing during portraits in Raleigh

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: Couple standing by painting

: NC State Legislature Building

: NC State Legislature Building

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: Couple dancing

: NC State Legislature Building

: Couple standing next to Dogwood tree

: Couple standing by azaleas

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: Portraits taken in Raleigh NC

: NC State Legislature Building

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March 24, 2016

Megan+Carly // Downtown Durham Engagement Session

Megan and Carly met at a gym when they lived in North Carolina (Carly went to UNC and Megan to NC State). They lived in Durham for a while and it still holds a special place in their hearts, so they packed up their backgammon game and adorable mugs and hauled themselves back here from Lexington, Kentucky to have their engagement session with us. We had this planned for a long time and they were already in from out of state when both Geoff and myself came down with fevers and a sickness similar to the plague, so we awkwardly waved hello at them from about 10 feet away when we first met them as to not spread the contamination. Our jokes were far more awkward and made even less sense than they usually do, and my already poor ability to give verbal instructions to my clients based on pictures in my head became even poorer, yet somehow Megan and Carly appeared to have a good time (or they’re at least humoring us).

Despite our illnesses, we still had a great time romping around the Bull City with these two. I especially enjoyed that Carly is barely 5′ tall and I did not need my step stool to photograph her. They handled all obstacles (and parking cones) in stride, and our biggest hurdle was them being cool with the new Ghostbusters remake while Geoff tried desperately to verbalize that the original Ghostbusters is a national treasure that should probably have at least a few monuments in its honor. We talked politics and dogs and they told us about their wedding and Carly wore really cute shoes while Megan made me want to cut all my hair off again.