Since starting our business officially back in 2006, Michelle and I have yet to take a single vacation. We’ve taken a few trips for weddings, photography conventions etc but nothing for just us. So, despite the fact that we are in the midst of the busy season we decided we needed a short break from everything Colorado and headed to Washington state to visit Michelle’s family. We spent our time up at her aunt & uncle’s place just north of Bellingham (which is located about 2 hours north of Seattle). While we spent our time relaxing and absolutely loving every minute of our trip we also had the opportunity to meet her cousin’s fiance, Tilly and take some engagement pictures for her and Jay. We were pretty bummed that we can’t make it to their wedding next year so decided this would be the next best thing. Well basically the one word to sum up this engagement session was AWESOME!!!!!!!!! I’m not sure if it was because we were on vacation, the beautiful location, or the fact that Tilly and Jay are a super hot couple, but this has to be one of my all time favorite engagement sessions ever! I’ve been dying to share these ever since we took them a few weeks back and here they finally are. We usually try to take engagement sessions in the evening during sunset but since Tilly and Jay had to head back to Seattle that afternoon we decided to switch it up and started a little after sunrise. Her aunt and uncle actually run a wedding venue off their property called D’Lightful Celebrations at Tail Skid Meadows (more about that later) so it’s perfectly set up for gorgeous pictures. The light was so cool at their place that we just had to get a few shots with the beautiful light before heading into town for the rest of the pictures. The rest of the time we spent photographing in the Fairhaven area of Bellingham. We had such a great time with them walking around and getting to use all these cool new locations that we’ve never shot before. We even went into one of the bookstores for a few pictures just for something different and fun. My favorite part though had to be the old rustic building with signs that told us no trespassing. Hello, that sign simply means “super awesome location” to a photographer. Truthfully we really only went into one small area that had an opening in the chain link fence right next to the open area that anyone could use. And of course we had to go down to the water and get some sweet shots under the pier and by the old posts from what must have been a pier a while ago. I could go on and on about this one but I’ll let the pictures do the rest of the talking. Tilly and Jay we had a lot of fun with you guys and are so happy for you
Awesome shoot downtown Littleton last night with Meghan for her band’s promotional ads:
