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Longwood Gardens Engagement | Denise & Ed

Misty Dawn — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:34:28 +0000

I met up with Denise & Ed at Longwood Gardens recently to shoot their Engagement Session.Â Longwood is one of my favorite garden locations for portraits.Â Such an exquisitely gorgeous place.Â Denise seemed a bit camera shy when we first started but soon enough she was doing a fabulous job of ignoring me.Â Don’t be quick to judge!Â She was really ignoring the camera, not really ME and hey, I told her to.Â Â Mother Nature provided us with amazing weather, not too cool and not too hot, the temperature was just warm enough to be perfect.Â We really enjoyed ourselves.Â Check out a few of my favorites.

The way Ed smiles for Denise just makes me want to dance.

I loved this tree and the backlighting coming through it. It was just screaming for me and my fisheye lens! haha!

I love the intimacy of the near kiss. It makes for such passionate images!

Denise & Ed – thanks for such a fun time!Â I can’t wait for your wedding next month.Â

Tessie & Tom | Lancaster Engagement

Misty Dawn — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:53:49 +0000

I met up with Tessie & Tom in Lancaster, PA for their engagement session and we had such fun!Â Tessie is a photographer from the Lancaster area and she has shot with me many times in the past few years.Â We have always worked well together so I knew it would be fun to have her and Tom in front of my camera.Â She continuously warned me that Tom makes funny faces in photos, but I assured her that he only does that in front of her camera.Â haha!Â Check out some of their engagement photos…

Smiles, smiles and more smiles. The entire time. Love it!

No goofy faces from Tom yet. Hmmm...I think he does it on purpose just for Tessie's camera. LOL

We had some geese that decided they wanted in on our photo shoot!

Love this stone bridge.

I am generally not a big fan of the cliche gazebo photos, but there's always a way to step outside the box. Here I used my fisheye lens to give a different perspective and I love how it emphasizes the wooden ceiling.

We found some neat sculptures along the walking trail and of course had to put them to use! Have I mentioned that Tessie is very animated? LOL

I love this guitar sculpture - I wish I could take it home!

A peaceful and quiet moment under a willow tree. Romantic, yeah?

Such pretty pretty trees - I love the naturally happy expressions on their faces!

Kisses are a must have. Naturally.

Coming up next:Â Tessie & Tom’s amazing Christiana, Pennsylvania wedding!Â Stay tuned!

Lauren & Adam | Longwood Gardens Engagement

Misty Dawn — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:26:26 +0000

One of the prettiest places in the area to have photos taken is definitely Longwood Gardens.

Lauren and Adam are such a laid back couple.Â When I first met Lauren at our consultation meeting, I was so stoked at her enthusiasm for creativity and art.Â So I was most definitely excited when they decided to book me for their wedding!Â Their engagement session proved to be all I imagined working with them could be – totally laid back and FUN!Â They were completely down with every idea I had.Â We decided on Longwood Gardens for the setting and it was a lovely day to shoot so we had a great time.Â Check out some of my favs from their session.

Swoon.Â Love this photo.

This treehouse proved very useful.

Mother Nature was so in tune with us that day…check out that beautiful blue sky!

Awww….such an adorable couple!!

Easily my fav.Â Oh yeah.

I truly adore tender moments like these.Â Sigh.

These two are totally bad ass.Â Peep the shades people.Â B-A-DÂ A-S-S.Â LOL

So in love with Adam’s rockin shades.

Lauren & Adam had their fabulous Mendenhall Inn wedding just this past weekend and I just cannot wait to share their wedding photos real soon.Â So stay tuned!