Results tagged “engagement” from British Rob's Blog

Engagement session season is in full swing now that the weather is finally a little more predictable. I met Kim and Kevin at their Brighton apartment, then headed over to the Charles River for a few warm-up photos before driving to Boston Common. Although I've shot around Beacon Hill quite a few times, the area is full of little gems, with great backdrops, beautiful long cobbled streets, gas lamps and shuttered windows.

You can view all of their photos here (password is Kim's surname).


(the last image is a bee buzzing around their heads, though it is more humorous to leave it up to one's mind)

So I've been a blogging slacker recently; been a little preoccupied with our new addition to the family... so here goes - I will be posting a few shoots that I've accumulated over the last four or five months....

Around a month ago I had the pleasure of meeting up with Lindsey and Adam for their engagement shoot. We headed up to the Minuteman national park to make use of the leaves (alas there wasn't much!), but we had some great light and made use of the cool historic buildings.

Now these two are definitely my jokers for 2010! They just couldn't stop making fun of each other, so we rolled with that and came out with some fun images of the two that hopefully seal their personalities. We headed into Boston to the common, walked around the streets, I lay in oncoming traffic while they laughed at me and then we walked back to the common to watch the sun set.

Lovely sunset it was too!

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Head over to http://www.brownphotographic.com/gifts/gifts.html to purchase your gift card online, or please contact me if you've got any questions!

A great gift if you are away from family, or you are travelling home to be with them and want the gift to be delivered in your name to the door. Just let me know what your circumstances or special message needs to be and I will provide!

It is hard to believe it felt like summer just a week and a half ago when I met with Leah and Angus by the aquarium for their engagement shoot. It was a very bright day and despite some harsh shadows we found some great places around the North End of Boston and the docks to take some engagement portraits. Leah had some great looking heels on, which weren't so great for the hike we were taking, so we found some flip-flops before (of course) having the obligatory cannoli at Mike's. We ended up on their good friend's yacht for a few more (photos, not cannolis) and Angus was talking about winching me up the mast for a different angle, but it was probably best that we didn't try that one!

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Earlier today I met with Molly and Ken and their mothers, Alice and Susan and Molly's sister Beth. For those of you in Boston today I think you'll agree it is a beautiful day! Lovely 80 degree weather and the blossom is out around Beacon Hill. We had a walk through the area to discuss where we would be taking photos on the day and talked about the timings. On our way through to Post Office Square I stopped them for a couple of photos; it wasn't an engagement session, but I had brought my camera along just in case, so I reeled off a few. And as Bruce Forsythe would say, "didn't they do well?". Great meeting with them and spending lunch chatting! Looking forward to shooting their wedding in late June...

Here are their pics... click below....

On my return to England at Christmas I was blessed to have my old friends from various parts of the world come to my home in Shipton Oliffe, in the Cotswold Hills. To those of my American followers, the Cotswolds are a beautiful, must-see area two hours west of London. To give you an idea of where I grew up, here's a satellite image. That's the village, just in between the sheep, the cows and the combine harvester:


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Anyway, I digress. So my good friend Tom and his lovely lady Michelle came along (with among 10 others) for my 30th birthday a couple of days before Christmas and announced they are now engaged! Cool news! Tom and I met in 1997 when we first went to University in Swansea, Wales. We (and most of the other people at said party) were all in 'halls' (that's student accommodation) on the same floor. Years later we still lived together and as our friends drifted off to get married or settle in with their ladies, the bachelors Tom and I were left in our house in Balham, often twiddling our thumbs, or more often than not eating fried breakfasts. One afternoon we were headed into Shoreditch (trendy part of East London) for a few beers for a birthday and to cut a long story short, the (at that time unknown) Michelle turned up with our friend from uni, Holly. The rest is history and they now live in Sydney, Australia.

They are getting married near to where Michelle grew up in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire (that's a few hours north of London - everything is always in reference to London, its just easier). So I'm going to be shooting their day in August and very much looking forward to getting back into a UK wedding with all the hats, fascinators, wild partying and hopefully the odd pork pie, which Melton is so famed for. If you've never had one, the next time you're in a good deli, go looking for one - they are very, very tasty.

Anyway, here's a few photos of Tom and Michelle taken on Christmas eve during / after a nice fry up and a cup of tea, oh and a few of Tom from yester-year...

A couple of weeks a go an excited Scott called me to shoot an engagement shoot. Well it turned out that they weren't actually engaged - yet! Scott was obviously very exicted (and somewhat nervous) and we conversed a few times over the week about shooting him proposing to her while I was there to record it - naturally I leapt at the chance! We came up with a plan: I'd pick them up, we'd drive into Beacon Hill, we'd take some photos, then at an undetermined point Scott or I would suggest a good place for the proposal, I'd get Jenn looking the other way and he'd be down on bended knee...

Well back to the start of the day. It was a lovely, sunny and unusually warm Sunday morning as I drove to Scott's in Medford to pick them both up. I met with Jenn (who knew they were off to shoot a portrait of them in town, but had no idea what was REALLY going to happen) and Scott, and we piled into the car. After squeezing my car into a tight spot by the State House, we set about warming them up to the camera around Boston Common before heading back into the streets of Beacon Hill after the sun had come up a little. Seeking out the best spot we went back to a beautiful cobbled street that I had been to with Carly and Sam last year. I suggested it to Scott, looking at him suggestively, he nodded (I think the nerves were setting in here) and we proceeded off to the street. We proceeded to fool Jenn into looking the other way, and Scott got down on one knee. The photos tell the rest!

Congratulations!

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Who's that smug man up there?

Time to catch up on blogging some shoots!

Meet Carly and Sam... they came all the way from the Cape for a shoot around Beacon Hill and we came away with some lovely shots of the two laughing and relaxing. A really, lovely couple. They don't come more genuine and caring than this (private story there). Thanks for making the trip and looking forward to your wedding!

Just the three, no, four of us - Lori, Steve, Zoe and the Harly. We made great use of some early fall colour in the Minuteman National Park (between Lexington and Concord) and found a nice quiet road to get shots of them with the bike. It's great to be able to mix in places, pastimes or possessions that define people and I personally love this first shot where Zoe's standing proud in front of the bike.

CLICK ANY IMAGE BELOW TO VIEW ALL THE PHOTOS AND PURCHASE PRINTS ONLINE - the password is Lori's last name.

Suzanne and Todd are getting married in early September and we met last week at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge to take a look around the reception venue with them. The hotel is situated right beside the Charles River, with a beautiful backdrop of Boston. We took the opportunity to also take some photos despite a looming storm.

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Recently I had the pleasure of spending a sunny late spring evening with Caitlin and Jon on the beaches of up-market Marblehead. They're getting married in August and we wanted to wait until the New England weather co-operated to get some great evening shots and we certainly came away with those!



We started out on the beach to get them warmed up to the camera (that took about 2 minutes!)...


Then we headed over to the northern point of Marblehead where we got some backlit shots beside the light tower and of them relaxing on a westward facing bench...







Then we went off in search of a public beach and for those of you who know the area there's not so much of that! I was looking for a spot where we'd have the sun setting over the water behind them and I could fill with some off camera flash. Just as the sun was in its last 15 minutes we found a spot on a public beach that was perfect and after some mild scrambling over some rocks we finished off the session with some incredible sunset shots.



Looking forward greatly to shooting their wedding in August - they're such a fun, personable couple. Stay tuned for an update to this post with a slideshow once I get the music licensing cleared...

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Spring is now here and we had the perfect opportunity a couple of weeks ago to shoot the engagement photos of Kristin and Will. They're getting married out of town, but wanted some photos taken at the Boston College Law School, so on a sunny morning we took some great pics together around the campus. Take a look at the pics below...

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