Ella & Elijah: Rustic Vermont Engagement (Extended Sneak Peak)

Ella and Elijah's engagement session took place on a perfect summer day on Ella's family farm in Vermont. We settled upon the idea after a brainstorming session for a location ran the gamut from hiking to the top of Fall Mountain in Walpole, NH to a trek in a state park. 

One thing is for sure: Ella and Elijah love the outdoors. Sure, a lot of engagement sessions take place outside, in a park or otherwise public space, but Ella and Elijah's final decision provided dozens of acres of fields and greenery, beautiful photogenic backdrops of barns, silos...pretty much anything and everything a photographer could ask for!

We had a great time shooting them in nature and we think it shows! Take a look below at some of the great moments from their beautiful engagement session. And, as always, congrats to Ella and Elijah!

Sylvia and the Bridge of Flowers

Sylvia and I headed to the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls, MA for a mini-shoot on a muggy summer day. The Bridge of Flowers is a beautifully arched, former trolley bridge that was converted into a walking path and perrenial flower garden by the Shelburne Falls Women's Club in 1929. 

The arched bridge is always a beautiful place for a shoot, with dozens of varieties of flowers always in bloom, as long as one is aware that the shoot will require a little finagling. The bridge is something of a local attraction: during the spring and summer it is frequented by walkers admiring seasonal flora, fauna, the 400-foot span over the Deerfield River, or the beautiful scenery of nearby Buckland and the quaint Shelburne center.

After dodging walkers and working around some heavy storm clouds, we got some great images from the bridge! We even tried out the Brenizer Method when we had a lull in traffic.

(Page down for some nice moments of Sylvia's friend and her shy son).

And the Brenizer Method photo we had been experimenting with between groups of bridge-goers.