I'm always excited to introduce a new couple on my blog through a sparkly new engagement shoot, but I'm about to burst with this one, because I had a hand in introducing these two! Eek! To be honest, God gets the ultimate credit, because He was the match-maker, but I will take a little credit for the assist :). Here's how the whole thing went down:
I attend a camp up in the mountains of Colorado every summer with a ministry I love called Forge. Dreyson's parents are on staff with Forge and have been mentors and spiritual leaders in my life for many years. A couple years back when I was at camp, I felt so impressed that I needed to invite Shiloh's family to Deep Camp. I have been friends with her parents since high school and just knew they were supposed to be there. At the time, I was thinking it was for the purposes of networking -- Shiloh's parents are raising up teams of missionaries to go to Papua New Guinea where they lived and served for over a decade, and Forge is in the business of discipling the type of people with hearts for work like that -- so I thought it would be a perfect fit. I wasn't match-making per se. But Shiloh and her family came to camp with me the following year and a friendship blossomed between Dreyson and Shiloh. A year later, he took her to prom, and the rest is history!
These two are not only gorgeous humans, they also have amazing hearts. They are young, but have a great depth and maturity for their age. And man, have they lucked-out in the in-law department!! They both come from families that are some of the most lovely humans I know. My heart is so full that God brought them together AND that I get the honor of being their photographer!
Dreyson and Shiloh are planning an August wedding in Denver, but they wanted to do their engagement shoot in Phoenix, where Shiloh is from. Shiloh grew up running around the mountains of PNG in her bare feet, and she still loves to go shoe-less whenever possible. So I knew we needed to be outdoors for their engagement shoot -- preferably climbing stuff -- haha! We ended up heading out east to Boyce Thompson Arboretum, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite shooting locations in Arizona. It has so much to offer -- a forest, river, and desert, all within walking distance. You would never guess that all of the spots pictured here were from the same location, but they are! We had so much fun exploring. And Dreyson and Shiloh were a dream to photograph!
Here are a few of my favorites:
I attend a camp up in the mountains of Colorado every summer with a ministry I love called Forge. Dreyson's parents are on staff with Forge and have been mentors and spiritual leaders in my life for many years. A couple years back when I was at camp, I felt so impressed that I needed to invite Shiloh's family to Deep Camp. I have been friends with her parents since high school and just knew they were supposed to be there. At the time, I was thinking it was for the purposes of networking -- Shiloh's parents are raising up teams of missionaries to go to Papua New Guinea where they lived and served for over a decade, and Forge is in the business of discipling the type of people with hearts for work like that -- so I thought it would be a perfect fit. I wasn't match-making per se. But Shiloh and her family came to camp with me the following year and a friendship blossomed between Dreyson and Shiloh. A year later, he took her to prom, and the rest is history!
These two are not only gorgeous humans, they also have amazing hearts. They are young, but have a great depth and maturity for their age. And man, have they lucked-out in the in-law department!! They both come from families that are some of the most lovely humans I know. My heart is so full that God brought them together AND that I get the honor of being their photographer!
Dreyson and Shiloh are planning an August wedding in Denver, but they wanted to do their engagement shoot in Phoenix, where Shiloh is from. Shiloh grew up running around the mountains of PNG in her bare feet, and she still loves to go shoe-less whenever possible. So I knew we needed to be outdoors for their engagement shoot -- preferably climbing stuff -- haha! We ended up heading out east to Boyce Thompson Arboretum, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite shooting locations in Arizona. It has so much to offer -- a forest, river, and desert, all within walking distance. You would never guess that all of the spots pictured here were from the same location, but they are! We had so much fun exploring. And Dreyson and Shiloh were a dream to photograph!
Here are a few of my favorites:
Equipment used: Contax 645 Film Camera // Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.0 Lens // Zeiss Distagon T* 45mm f/2.8 Lens // Fuji 400 & Portra 800 film // Film developed & scanned by Photovision
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