I got to go around Harvard Square little bit ago to make some photographs with this great couple.
They were pretty great.
I grew up just outside of The Square but it was great to see it through the eyes of a student at the Graduate School of Design.
The (now closed down) Crate and Barrel store in the former Design Research Building. I had actually never noticed it before as a building. Designed in 1969 by the former Harvard Graduate School of Design chairman of architecture, Benjamin C. Thompson.
Here is the Larson Building
I actually went to preschool here. Thats right. I went to preschool at Harvard.
I was discharged once I started pronouncing my ‘Rs’.
They are sycamore trees. Drove me crazy – I had to look up what kind of trees lined Memorial Drive. I love that row.
The divinity building for a couple of divine photos. (yes, I can hear you groaning)
Such a great afternoon. Looking forward to the wedding guys! It is coming up soon!
Archive for the ‘Engagement’ Category
paaking in Haavad | Cambridge Engagemnt Session
Memorial Drive Engagement Session | Cambridge Wedding Photography
I love it when a couple tells me they want to recreate a photo like one from their parents or grandparents. The bride-to-be mentioned that her grandparents have a photo from their wedding day that was taken in front of a gate at Harvard.
We started our session on Memorial Drive near the Skating Club and thought we would make our way down until we found the (a) gate.
But we didn’t know exactly were it was… Because of threatening weather, we jumped in my car for a drive a little further down where we were sure we would find a “Harvard Gate.” But alas the parking gods (nor the Cambridge police) were all to lenient with me. I must have used up all my credits during my youth.
But all that driving in circles did scare away the rain we went back to where we started and we were able to find some great spots along our walk down Memorial
and finally found that (or at least a similar) gate.
Looking forward to October!
My job is a walk in the Park | Engagement session in Boston
It is great when a couple makes my job so easy. We spent a day last weekend just walking around the Public Garden and Beacon Hill visiting some of their old haunts. Much of the session was spent avoiding tourists or figuring out how to incorporate them into the shot. We got lucky. You can never go wrong in this part of Boston. More importantly you can’t take a bad photo of a couple so at ease with themselves and each other. I can’t wait until their wedding!
I have a friend who is the program manager for architectural and historical walking tour company Boston by Foot. When she saw some of these photos posted on my Facebook page, she asked if some were taken on Acorn street. I wish I knew the street names, but I find that as I work, I pay such little attention to where I am. Instead I am drawn to the feel of a place…how the image will look with the lighting and texture, etc.
I have to sign up for a tour some time soon, though, so I know more about the great places I am photographing in Boston.
Engagement session at Wellesley College Botanical Gardens
My job is most fun when I get to photograph a great couple in a new location. And what a great new location I discovered whilst searching for areas that would be in bloom. The lovely bride-to-be is really into flowers and color- and in April everything is just starting to sprout.
Add to that, I always look for a place that won’t be crowded with people (picture Boston Public Garden in the Spring). But I think I stumbled onto location-perfection here at the Wellesley College Botanical Gardens. The campus itself looks like the creation of a movie producer creating the look of what an ideal campus should look like. Lots of old buildings, sprawling lawns, cultivated garden areas, courtyards, arching trees… A photographer’s yummy stuff for the lens.
I could have stayed there for the whole afternoon.
But enough about the location… Check out this super sweet couple. I can’t wait to photograph them this summer! Thanks guys for the perfect afternoon.
Busy Bliss
Fall in the Arnold Arboretum in JP- Lovely. Getting to do an engagement session with a couple that hardly ever gets a day off together- Even better. Having it be such an incredibly cute couple who are such a lovely match for each other- Perfection. Congrats M and M – can’t wait for your wedding and thanks for spending a bit of your day off with me (and for introducing me to JP Lick’s Pumpkin soft serve ice cream)
