We had a couple e-shoots this week in the absolutely fabulous weather - and I can't even begin to say how happy I was. Both because it was so nice to finish up a shoot and still have feeling in our fingers, but also because we scored big with two fabulous couples. The first was Sara + Jeff who were in from out of town and whom you absolutely fall in love with immediately upon meeting. They are both so happy and are the type of people who laugh alot, which is absolutely my favorite!!

I hear that frame, a lot.

But, what you were taking about - 100 percent agree - I'm pretty reserved, normally, and these two had me cracking up instantly. I just realized as I went through and did my edits we actually had to tell them to "be serious" a couple times, which is funny because a lot of times I hate that I sound like the mall photographer with the rubber ducky above the camera saying, "Smile!!" - but cameras make most people nervous and we usually have to work pretty hard to make people feel comfortable and relaxed while we all do our thing. And we were warm!! There's really nothing I like more right this second than pointing a camera at the almost-Spring sun.

Money.

Yeah, about fifteen seconds in, Sara was like, "Yay, a camera pointed at me for an hour and a half!" But if she was being sarcastic, I'm clueless, because they were both so relaxed instantaneously in front of us. Awe. Some. Ness.

Seriously, I might have snapped four serious shots the whole day (which is awesome, because clearly I want their photos to be who they are - which is happy and fun)... this is one, and I'm in love with it!

You know it - this one was the first frame I took - I can't wait to see you two in your wedding gear - we are going to have a blast.

I love this one of yours, Rich - it's funny, when you were shooting it, I thought you were doing something different, and I was super excited when I saw this. It was just different, and I love that surprise of going through your photos and seeing something new pop out!

Yep, that's me - "different" - hah! Thanks, hon :)

Different is better than special, non?

Gorgeous... you know, we've been talking about this alot lately with our couples - we'll have them in kind of random places for their photos - this shot, Sara and Jeff are in the middle of the street - because what we're looking for is pretty light, and I'm so happy to have awesome clients who trust us to put them in the middle of the street if that's where the light is (side note to Sara + Jeff - I promise at the wedding, one of us will be on the lookout for cars, instead of both with our faces in the cameras!! :) ) and go with it.

I just like shouting "Game On!" at engagement shoots. Did we mention we also shot inside of Canisius High School? That's where the interior stuff is done - very, very rad building and a place that I'm very happy Sara was able to get us access to.

I guarantee you, Sara, that you = photogenic :)

Gah! I love this.

Me too. No lie, I love Spring like anyone who has been in Buffalo all winter but maybe, just a little bit, I'm going to miss the snow covering everything and looking so damned pretty. Here's a couple more to tide you over, and thanks - we don't say it nearly enough - for taking the time to read this and look at our photos and our couples.

The building maintenance guy at Canisius opened the auditorium for us and we had to do this. There's always something about movie theater-style seats - I associate dark theaters with cute, new romances and the romances that can always look cute and new no matter how old they are, kindof like how Sara and Jeff look downright effortless when they're together.

Let's do this again SOON, guys :) - Like, at your wedding coming up. We are sufficiently stoked and are completely ready to work with you two again. Thank you so much for being awesome, even when we ask you to stand in the middle of the road.

So, we totally meant to blog this last night, but then we ended up with a feverish baby, and we spent the night comforting him. So, a little late, but better than never, here's Keila + Mark. We met up with them Thursday afternoon, and making another guest appearance was the sun! It was really super bright - so much so that we all ended up squinting and tearing up a bit, so I think we're dangerously close to Spring! It was really nice having the sun on our back during the shoot - especially since we all ended up with totally wet feet, since there was still a good foot of snow in some places. But it was really an awesome afternoon.

First of all, hellaciously bright sun. It was like shooting on another planet after the gray days of the past couple months. Totally awesome. and how do you not love a couple like this? We were talking about how they want to move to Florida and open a chiropractic practice and call it, "Oh, Snap!" Marketing brilliance. Seriously!

They are absolutely hysterical, and I really had a ton of fun shooting them.

SICK!

Thanks - just a different take on that :) I was pretty pleased with how that came out :)

I was pretty pleased by how, "hey, let's randomly take a walk around this marina" worked out. Well, I mean, wearing chuck's in melting snow is a pretty stupid idea - and we seem to always be wearing chuck's in snow lately. Oh well - sloppy, wet chuck's are kindof a sign of Spring anyway, right?

A lot full of piers? I'll take it!

I love this of yours, babe - gorgeous...

Thanks :) You know, making photographs in really hard, direct sun can be a lot of fun sometimes. In Buffalo, things are all over the place this time of year. We were definitely freezing our asses off, but the sun was absolutely incredible. It's been a goal of mine to not get freaked out, in a photographic sense, by any lighting condition. I was always "taught" to either find open shade or use some sort of fill flash when you're out in sun like this - and I first learned how to use a camera when I was stationed in Hawaii, so it was always a struggle to get it "right" for the gunny, you know? It's been pretty rad working with you - because you don't GAF, babe - any light is useable, awesome light and you ain't skered :).

This is my favorite you shot - I dunno, I just love it.

Thanks :) Yeah, I love the sun - I'll take it any day of the week.

Keila is looking at me like I'm insane. Yeeaaah, but it's fun :)

I get that look from people ALL the time - it's the "what the hell is wrong with this bald dude?" look. Hey - speaking of which, I need to tangent for a sec. I was having this debate with Alyssa about bald guys. I think Michael Jordan made bald extremely cool, but black dudes have been cool and bald for a really long time. What white dudes could you say made shaved-bald cool? I was going with Patrick Stewart - maybe Destro? And then I hit on Andre Agassi because he was known FOR his crazy look and long hair and then went all classic white at shaved bald and rocked that pretty hard. What do you guys think? Am I kidding myself that bald is cool at all? I need some reassurance here because I have ZERO options if bald and white ain't workin.

Yeah, I believe I tossed out Patrick Stewart, and YOU tossed out Xavier or whatever ridiculous X-men dorkiness you seem to think is cool. Which turned into the argument that you cannot used a cartoon character in your search for which white guy was the first to embrace baldness. He's a cartoon.

First - a legendary comic book character is not a "cartoon" and, second, I forgot about Prof. X. Now I KNOW bald is awesome Hi - welcome back to our blog? Have I alienated, like, every bride ever talking about how much of a colossal freaking nerd I am?

Seriously, Keila's eyes are stupid cool. Rich always notices people's eyes, and when he pointed out Keila's, I kind of just stopped, because they really are that awesome.

Guys - thank you so much for putting up with us and hanging out. You both rocked so hard and we can't wait to see you guys again soon!!

Wedding two of 2010! We had a really excellent e-shoot with Terri and Dave at Niagara Falls and we couldn't wait to get back up there for the wedding. Dave is one of the more hilarious groom's we've ever worked with and add in Terri and they're kindof an epic couple. Both super smart, both super warm and friendly and their wedding day was a lot of fun for us. They even got married in the morning, which is one of our favorite things that couples rarely do.

I do always love a morning wedding - it gives you the whole day to celebrate! So, we started pretty early with Terri + Dave since they decided to do a first look and portraits before the ceremony.

It was completely rad. Dave pointed out to me that not only did they have a ton of guests from out of town (and country) they wanted to get an early start the next day and there was kindof an important hockey game on that night.

We headed down to the falls to do Terri + Dave's portraits - and it couldn't have been more beautiful. The sun even made a rare appearance for the first time in a few months! :)

Seriously, these two couldn't be more gorgeous! I love this one! (But don't let that gorgeous sun fool you - it was pretty brisk!)

It was straight up freezing, let's not mince words. We must have looked hilarious - we had two photographers, two videographers (Frank from 17 video production shot the wedding with us) and a handful of friends and family. It was rad!

Yeah, we (and by we, I mean Terri + Dave!) definitely were drawing some attention from tourists :)

I love this one of yours, babe - definitely my favorite of yours!!

Hey, thanks :) Laughing couple for the win!

I know this post is pretty couple's-session intensive, but they gave us an hour, and we loved it! :)

Gorgeous.

And then it was time for the ceremony!

Favorite emotional reaction moment, maybe ever. It was amazing to see how much it meant to Terri that her parents both went up the aisle to meet her and walk her down together.

The room was really rad and let in a ton of gorgeous light through the ceremony. Loved it!

Did we mention this was at the Niagara Falls Convention Center? I was pretty impressed by the place - it looks kindof unassuming from the outside, but the hall T + D got married in was great with huge windows giving us nice sidelight the whole ceremony.

This was my favorite moment - by far. Seriously, these two are the cutest ever!

That was easily my favorite shot of the whole day :). Awesome, awesome couple.

Listen to us - we're so full of love for this wedding! :) It really was a fantastic day, though - sorry if we sound repetitious!

Terri + Dave went right into the horah at the start of the reception. You killed it, babe!

Hey - Jewish wedding absolutely rock. I love this immensely.

We made some jokes about facebook statuses and weddings - cause, hey, it's 2010, the FIRST thing you do when you get married and you get on the computer is update your relationship status and last name, amiright? Dave was on top of it before they got introduced at the receptions. I was like, "Hey, I'm a giant damned dork, but can we take this cheese-ball shot with the iPhone?"

CHECK THE YARMULKE BUFFALO! Dave wins for the coolest groom accessory of the year, no one is going to top that - calling it now.

Yeah - Terri got it for him - rad, rad present!

Guys - it was an amazing day. Thank you both so much for allowing us to be there with you guys. You have an amazing group of family and friends, and we were thrilled to be able to capture your day!