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CAMBRIDGE ENGAGEMENT SESSION: KATIE + JON

Kate — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:55:54 +0000

Katie + Jon are getting married next summer in the White Mountains in NH and I am beyond excited for their wedding. First of all, they’re ridiculously cute (see the evidence below) and second, they are super fun to hang out with. We spent a bright Sunday morning checking out some spots in their new home town of Cambridge (they moved up here from NYC in June this year). We started out at Katie’s dad’s place, an amazing historic building just east of Harvard Square. I don’t usually like photographing indoors for engagement sessions, but this place was amazing: whitewashed walls, tons of light, and some beautiful vintage furniture. Some of my favorite photos came from the cute kitchen:

And I also loved the blue couch in front of the window in this room:

The backyard was similarly awesome …

After a little while at the house, we decided to check out a few favorite spots in the neighborhood. We started out down by Charles – I love the little series of John chasing Katie back up the river path:

It was a little breezy out – can you tell?!

Our next stop was this cool sculpture at MIT. The numbers and letters made for some cool framing options:

Some fun shots against an old warehouse I spotted:

And time for some closer up photos. I LOVE the black and white shot below. Such utter cuteness!

Our final stop was The People’s Republik, a very cool pub on Mass Ave, for a quick beer. Yum! Thank you both for keeping me laughing throughout our session, and for being such naturals in front of the camera. Roll on August 2012!

MIT Hobby Shop Engagement Session: Woodworkers in Love

Kate — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:38:20 +0000

A couple of Mondays ago, I met up with this super silly and totally up-for-it couple for a very unique engagement session. These two met during a woodworking class at the hobby shop at MIT, where they were struggling to get the chisel mortiser to cooperate. I loved that we were able to go back to the place they met for their engagement session, even if it was at the crack of dawn (OK, not quite – but 9am is pretty early in my book).

The hobby shop is a challenging space to use for photos, so I’m really excited about how the session turned out. We were working with mixed fluorescent and tungsten lighting, underground, with dust and wood chips everywhere. There were no clean, pretty backdrops, no fall foliage, no gorgeous natural light … so I brought in a speedlight, played up the 50s feel and we worked to create cute and silly scenarios with the various pieces of equipment and work spaces. Awesome! I’d love to know what you think about this session – so please leave me a comment! Guys, thank you for such a fun morning and I hope you like the teasers.

A unique indoor engagement session at the MIT hobby shop

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Woodworkers in Love

Kate — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:17:44 +0000

I had an engagement session this morning …at the hobby shop at MIT. It was both ridiculous and awesome. The teasers will be along in a couple of weeks …

Woodworkers fall in love too ... engagement pics at MIT's hobby shop.