Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Stacy and Rob | Engagement Session at Willow Harbor Vineyard, New Buffalo Beach, and LaLumiere School

Stacy and Rob are SO FUN!



I can't wait for their wedding because they are awesome. I also can't wait because they are having their wedding at my absolute dream location, as a photographer, and a bride. I know I just got married, but honestly, had I known about this venue, I'd have been married there!

Check out Mill Creek Barns! Their site doesn't have much yet, but I googled them and found sound exciting images. This place is BRAND NEW and I can't wait to shoot there!



For the engagement session, we did a little tour of southwest Michigan, starting at one of my other favorite weddings venues, Willow Harbor Vineyard and Polo Club. I shot one of their first weddings last June with my own wedding photographer, Nichole Frank.





After we left Three Oaks, we went to New Buffalo Beach and recreated some photos these two tried to take of themselves with the timer on their camera on their last trip to Michigan! Stacy's grandma lives in a condo right across from the beach, so they knew it well.












Then we went to LaLumiere, my high school! Anyone that knows me knows I am obsessed with this school. I loved it, and I love showing it off! It was beautiful!








As if this post hadn't been full of enough shout outs, I also wanted to mention that my friend Jose Vela from VelaFoto came along for the shoot and had some fun stuff to contribute! He was my assistant last year, but started his own business! Check him out on myspace!

Check out some more of my favorites in the slideshow and keep watch for their fabulous wedding photos in just two weeks!



View all of the photos here

1 comments:

CAMERA WORK said...

very nice. How I would love to do an engagement session in a vineyard. So cool!

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I'm Amy Straka Waters. I never formally studied photography, though it was my hobby throughout high school and college. I thought I'd end up in journalism. I though I wanted to write. Then I started carrying some stuff around for Monica Zibutis. I just thought I'd make a few extra bucks on a few Saturdays. In fact, I'd never even attended a wedding when I started working with Monica. She turned those few Saturdays into every day. She turned my hobby into a career. After my own wedding, this career means even more to me. Everytime I look at my wedding photos I can hear the cello, taste the wine, and relive the whole thing. Everyone I know and love was finally in one place. I'm blessed to have beautiful memories of that, and blessed again to see those memories illustrated. I am honored to do the same for others. I never bothered with that career in journalism. I have no interest in chasing big stories, only small ones. The intimacy and emotion of wedding and portrait photography enveloped me. I love it!
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