High Park is a very! popular place for engagement photos during cherry blossom season. But as luck would have it — due to timing and weather — Lorna & Wooyeong’s engagement session took place just a hair before the cherry blossoms were in full bloom. Which meant that we got to shoot with vibrant yellow forsythia flowers (which usually bloom earlier) instead of pale pink Sakura ones.
This is okay with me because yellow > pink. Mwahaha. :)
This was the first time I officially incorporated dogs into a shoot. Like babies and many young children, these pups weren’t really “into” looking at the camera.
Or doing anything else we wanted them to do for that matter, hah!
Here are examples of the not-blooming-yet Sakura trees:
And here are examples of…I’m not even sure what these are examples of, but I laugh every time I look at them!
Lorna is definitely what you’d call a “natural” in front of the camera. And Wooyeong is what you’d call a good-looking accessory on Lorna’s arm. ;)
The batter was much more liquid-y than my previous attempts due to the significantly different ratio of egg white to almond flour and icing sugar. A lot less almond flour than I’ve used in the past.
Baked at 300F for 16 minutes.
Here are attempts #1 through #8. Yes, I anticipated this day of success and froze samples of all my previous attempts just so I could take this picture. That is how I roll. Granted, I didn’t think it would take eight attempts…
Aleli and Mark make a dashing couple. Not many people can pull off hats with such grace and style!
Even though it was unseasonably warm for mid-February, it was still really cold. Props to Aleli for being gutsy enough to wear a skirt…and mad respect that neither Aleli nor Mark complained of the cold! I had all my thermal underwear on and I was chilled to the bone by the end of our shoot.
But no pain, no gain, right? We had hallelujah sunset lighting!
no comments