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Over the past few months of wedding planning I have had the privilege of getting to know Dustin & Tracy, and it has been a blast to get to know these two!  We share a lot in common, and I can’t WAIT for the wedding – the engagement shoot was almost too much fun already! 

I hope that you guys enjoy these shots – it was soo hard to choose just these few, and like I said already, I can’t wait to do it again, this time in dresses & tuxes! (you, not me lol!)

Blessings,

Mark

This shot was lucky enough to grace the cover of the wedding invitations – so cool!

I think this last photo simply shows the joyful anticipation of marriage:)

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Recently I had the privilege of heading out with my friends Bradford & Liza to take some engagement shots.  Liza approached me quite a while ago about being her wedding photographer, and after Bradford popped the question, we met up for coffee and made it official!  I’m pretty excited about their wedding, we had a lot of fun getting these great shots – there were so many great ones, I had a very hard time picking these few for the blog!  And this is still going to be a HUGE post!

I hope you guys enjoy these shots, I know I did and I can’t wait for your wedding day!

Blessings,

Mark

Aren’t they cute together? 

Haha the twigs…Liza could barely keep her’s on!

So they decided to climb a tree instead.

 I LOVE this shot!

 These next two shots show you the scale of their relationship – having fun one second, to falling for each other the next!  So awesome!

lol yippee! 

Gorgeous eyes!  Can’t wait for the wedding!

Bradford also has some stellar eyes…maybe I should have turned him away from the sun lol

Of course, I saved the best for last!

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Hey everyone

Just wanted to post another shot to let you know that this challenge is still in progress!

This is one of my best friends, Jason.

Enjoy,

Mark

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Continuing on with the family theme I have going, as I was visiting my sister at college we were walking to a restaurant for supper and we stumbled this awesome little lighting situation!  The sun was getting lower in the sky, and it was reflecting off of a garage with a big white door on the front – a 20 foot reflector if you might!  It was aligning perfectly with this tree in the background, so I asked Angelina to pose for me and I was able to get the shot that I wanted.  I think Angelina did great!

Taken with my 5D and 50mm 1.8 lens – all natural light.

Enjoy!

Mark

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This week I found a gorgeous new model, and I couldn’t resist taking more than 1 shot of her! 

Actually I think I am going to go away from just doing 1 shot, not that I am backing down from the challenge, but I am finding that I am not learning as much as I could be if I can play around with different setups and try different things.

Anyways, technical setup was my 5D with 100mm macro lens, a 580EX II on a 42 inch shoot through umbrella to my right as my main light, and a 50 inch white reflector on my left to act as a fill.  I also had another 580 EX II to act as a rim light behind my model.

Blessings,

Mark

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