Andrea & Ryan’s Portland E-Session…

Tis’ the season to photograph weddings. We in the biz call it wedding season, creative right? Well before we shoot the wedding often times couples elect to do an engagement session. They are already engaged, again the creativity of the naming of some of this stuff is astounding.

I met Andrea and Ryan at Fort Williams Park in Portland, ME.  Fort Williams Park is also the home of Portland Head Light, one of the many lighthouses that dot the east coast.  Lighthouse are on their way to being extinct.  Many are in disrepair, or worse in danger of just falling into the sea from beach erosion.  I’ll post something later on my feelings about lighthouse preservation, for the time being lets focus on Andrea and Ryan.

They will be getting married this fall at The Landing at Pine Point in Scarborough Maine.  The Landing is a wonderful venue and I am super excited to be going there with this couple.  Ryan grew up in the Portland area and even had his senior portraits done in this park.  So for the first hour our so I let him guide us to some of the locations he was familiar with.  I wanted to let them get completely comfortable, and familiar surroundings will do that.

This was our first setup, Ryan admitted shortly after this that he had never actually been this close to the lighthouse itself.  So this was a first for all of us.

It was shortly after this shot on the swings, that Andrea really wanted, that I took over leading the group.  I had seen some things on our walk that I wanted to visit that might not have been on the couple’s hit list.

I always do a portrait of each person during the session.  The location for these portraits was inside a fairly run down shack.  There was some colorful graffiti on the walls that made it difficult do to more environmental shots.   I didn’t think it appropriate to have such a description of what was going to happen during the honey moon in their e-session portraits.  I can’t wait to shoot their full wedding this fall, its going to be a rockin’ good time!