A "Just Because" Session with Victoria & Dan

I know I've already mentioned how backlogged I've been lately, just taking too many pictures, and not taking enough time to edit them. I was planning on working on them all day long. But it was gorgeous out, and I hadn't seen Victoria in a month. So she suggested I head up to hang out with her on her lunch hour - and seeing as I'm not doing too much of anything lately, I took her up on it.

After a 45-minute real estate drool-drive with Vic, I made it home and found the inspiration needed to finish the pictures I took of her and her boyfriend, Dan about a month ago in the gorgeous oasis just steps from my apartment door.

Without further ado, my favorites:

The shoot wasn't because they're engaged, or for any reason really.. other than love. Victoria is a sorority sister plus one of my best friends and I adore Dan (we're both water signs, we click). They're very very funny and have googly eyes for each other almost always. They came by one Sunday afternoon, Vic borrowed one of my favorite dresses, and we three walked the half block to the park to play for a while.

They're cute.

Kelly & Keith's Save The Dates

This week has been kinda brutal. Between shitty sleep habits and horomones, I've been a grumpy brat.

Beyond that, I found out I didn't get the job I interviewed for last Thursday. It was to be as office manager at a local (premiere) wedding photographer's studio, one mile from the apartment. I was really looking forward to it, but what are you gonna do? ...besides eat a pint of Dulce Delish, 'cause, yea, I did that.

The silver lining is that I won't have to deny my own photography now, as I would have if I'd gotten the job. So on that note, to celebrate just 53 weeks until wedded bliss, here are some of my favorite shots from Kelly and Keith's fantastic fall  afternoon engagement shoot at Rockefeller Preserve.

These last two crack me up.

So cute, right?I just loved spending the afternoon with an old friend and her fiance! Kelly and I were Irish Dancers together, middle school through high school. I feel so lucky to have reconnected with her now, in one of the more exciting times in our lives. That's one of my favorite things about snapping pictures. It's the best excuse for seriously intimate, personal hang out time, whether that's the intention or not!

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