Cassie and Brady // Engagement

 I love the small window of time I got to be in their life. Cassie and Brady are east coast natives who met in college in Utah. Newly engaged, they were visiting the west coast and thought that would make for a pretty awesome engagement shoot. Spot on, because getting pictures of Cassie touching the Pacific Ocean for the first time was awesome to witness!

But more than that, I get to witness the start of something incredible. A new start. So sincere and pure. She's spunky and he loves her for it. He's steadfast and she loves him for it.

Together these two fit. You can see it in how they hold each other and how they look at each other. 

Somewhere in their hearts, they've made a place for each other. Carving out more and more room as they fall more in love with each growing day.

“In our part of the country, spring passes quickly. If you haven't been out for five days, you find the trees in bud. If you don't see the trees for another five days, you discover that they've put out leaves. In another five days, they're so green you wouldn't recognize them. It makes you wonder: Can these be the same trees I saw a few days before? And you answer yourself: Of course they are. That's how fast spring goes by. You can almost see it. From far away it comes racing toward you. And when it reaches you it whispers in your ear, 'I'm here,' and then runs swiftly on."

- Xiao Hong

This is the time of year where we photogs take a moment to think.

To take a break and figure out this year's goals.

This year I want more art in my life. 

I want to learn how to love the people in front of my lens better. kinder. authentic.

I want people to know how beautifully they are made and that they can make beauty with the very life, love, passion, desires they have inside.

So here's to a year, of pursuing art and pursuing people.