Finally! A very belated post featuring a few of my favorite non-wedding day shoots from the last 3 months – portrait sessions of every shape and size. I’m incredibly excited to get some of this stuff up for public viewing at last – since I’ve been spending the last 6 months or so working on developing some new looks and techniques and using a number of new locations, well, I guess you could say that this marks the official unveiling of a season’s worth of experimentation…

Heather chose Roadhouse Relics for her and Taylor’s engagement session – I didn’t quite know what to expect as I’d never actually shot inside of the place before, but I now have a new addition to my small and exclusive list of “utterly fantastic” places to shoot. This place is just amazing. It’s relatively small, but what’s crammed into that space is just overflowing with goodness…

When Blithe and Scott brought up the idea of shooting their engagement session at Ikea, I was incredibly excited about the possibilities but not too hopeful that it would ever come to fruition – getting permission to shoot on private property is always a hit-or-miss affair, and when it comes to large retail chains, my hit rate so far has been 0%. Surprisingly, the folks at Ikea in Round Rock were incredibly inviting and allowed us to go throughout the store at our leisure, even though it was INSANELY busy that day. The funny thing was, all of the shoppers seemed to be so involved in searching for deals that not one single person even asked what we were doing or gave us strange looks, even when we had multiple lights going off – they just walked right past us to look at the merchandise! I guess when you’re in Ikea you’re on a mission…

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I know, I know – I’ve been a bit remiss in my blogging lately. In my defense, I have a hard time justifying blogging when I’m trying my best to spend most of my waking hours editing the many, many thousands of images that can quickly pile up during a busy busy busy fall wedding season. However, as the last couple of weddings of the season approach completion, I thought I’d take a few minutes to share some of my favorite images from my November and December portrait sessions. Everyone, meet Trisha & Joe, Mairin & Chris, and Alison & Matt, and stay tuned…in the next few days I’ll be sharing two of the most unique portrait sessions that I’ve ever shot. Unique how, you say? Well, one takes place in the only furniture superstore that sells lingonberry juice, and the other started as an engagement session on South Congress and ended, two hours later, in an unexpected but 100% legit impromptu wedding ceremony at Hotel Saint Cecilia. It’s been a very interesting 2010 so far…