engaged couple celebrates their love with snow and coffee

A Winter Engagement session in Pure Michigan

We cool down with Mother Nature and snow then warmed up at The Exquisite Corpse with coffee

   I remember the first time I spoke with Casey on the phone about her wedding. She was so bubbly, so sweet. I was SO excited to meet her in person.
   A few weeks later she and her fiancé Evan came to the studio and I was right. She is the sweetest, and Evan is just an all around kind guy as well. She looks as him with the most adoring eyes and he smiles back with the most accepting smile.    So as you can imagine, photographing them was a breeze.
   It went like this- You two. Be in love. Snap, snap, snap. Ok, moving on. Repeat.
   Ok, so maybe it wasn’t EXACTLY like that, but their chemistry is obvious and their personalities were naturally meant to hold hands forever.
   Once I did some digging I found out Evan played a ton of musical instruments, so I really wanted to incorporate that side of who they were as well. The bride to be is always easy to highlight, they’re always gorgeous and full of love. So they shine, as Casey does. But sometimes guys can hide behind that.
   Their relationship appears to very equal, where you know they have mutual love and respect for each other, both of them putting each other on a pedestal of identical heights. So I wanted this to be a celebration of both of them, equally.
   Take a look at these love birds and what we did! Snow, kisses, dancing dips, coffee, guitar, piano… It was SUCH a beautiful day!  

And be sure to scroll to the very bottom to see their day in motion! A behind the scenes look of them in love, during their session with us!

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An inside look at Casey and Evan's Engagement Session!

A Lifestyle Shoot with Port Huron Family Photographer- AJBC Photography

Right in the heart of Downtown Port Huron, Michigan in one of the cutest coffee shops I've ever seen (The Exquisite Corpse)  awaits a family. They order their coffee and pay at the counter. Stripping jackets and getting cozy they pile in behind the large table and open up their usual reading material of comics and art. 
And then all I simply do is step in and capture that love and lifestyle they so beautifully live.

I don't do many lifestyle sessions. I think it's because not a lot of people think of them as an option. The whole feel of "from the outside looking in" is a little foreign to traditional portraiture but I'm going to be SURE to do it again, and again, very, very soon. 
In my opinion, it truly captures who you are. No who you wish to be, but who you so truthfully and honestly are, and that's awesome because maybe you don't know what that looks like from the outside. Or.... it may change one day and you'll want to remember what it felt like to live like this, forever. 

This session was a breath of fresh air. It was SO easy going, so truly enjoyable. 
It also helps that Bre is the kindest woman you'll probably ever meet and Josh is the raw and original talent behind As Fall Leaves. Then there is Mason. This boy is the sweetest, most worldy little guy I've ever met and I could totally hang out with him and just chat away. 

Just to switch things up a bit we finished up our coffee and headed down to the newly built River Walk. I must say- Blue Water Area- bravo. This area right by the St. Clair River is gorgeous and true to it's history. Canada makes a nice looking backdrop back there too. ;)

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