The weather tells me what to do. Living in Southern California we very rarely have bad weather days. While they are more frequent in the winter than any other time of year, they are still few and far between. Every year, my family takes a mini family vacation, and the weekend before Christmas we ventured down to San Diego . I was fully expecting it to be in the 50/60’s all weekend and was prepared to bundle up and bear the cold weather. Much to our delight it was blazing hot and beautiful! We went to Coronado Beach and Balboa Park and had a grand old time! Then on Sunday I shot a wedding and again it was a beautiful day, but got rather chilly into the evening. I completely expected the weather streak to keep on going and give me gorgeous weather for an engagement session on Monday. But alas, my weather luck ran dry. Monday was cold and overcast with showers expected later that night. I stood outside for quite sometime staring at the sky trying to decide what to do. Normally, overcast weather can be fantastic for producing images. The big fluffy clouds blocking the sun create a softbox effect and eliminates any yucky shadows. But this overcast was very dreary and ominous. I finally decided to listen to the weather and do the smart thing and tell my clients (before they go getting too gussied up!) that it just probably wasn’t going to be the best day for a session and it would be in everyone’s best interest to wait until the sun is ready to shine again. The truth is, given any weather predicament we probably could have made it work and maybe even come up with a creative solution to the weather but sometimes you just need to follow your heart and I’m so glad I did.
We ended up having their session on Wednesday morning and it was a little cold, but the sun came out to play and it was beautiful. I normally DO NOT do sessions in the morning because I am not a morning person at all, but Giovanna and Robert were in town from Arizona and were heading home on Wednesday. It was a nice change of pace to try out shooting in the morning, but after this I will be reverting back to my afternoon only shooting schedule.
I know I’ve already written way too much and should just get to the pictures already, but I wanted to share a fun fact about this session…Giovanna is friends with a friend of mine, Heather, and Heather purchased this engagement session as an engagement present to them! I thought it was such a great present!
So Giovanna, Robert, and I headed down to the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art (LACMA). We had such a great time!
Check out the slideshow too!!
How cute is this? Giovanna pointed down at the light poles and said “look…A for Amanda!”
In case you missed the slideshow!!!
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