Meet {Michelle & Eric} Santa Barbara

Amanda — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:56:53 +0000

When we first met with Michelle and Erik to discuss their wedding, they already knew exactly where they wanted their engagement session: The Santa Barbara Courthouse and The Santa Barbara Mission. Done and done. I’ve actually never photographed at either location so I was very excited (I LOVE shooting at new locations!) So, Mike and I show up early, as always, to scope the area and as soon as we park at the courthouse we hear very loud music. And as we walk into the courtyard it looks like it is set up for a huge concert and they are doing the sound check. So I’m thinking great, this soundcheck is so loud we won’t be able to talk to them during their entire session! Luckily, they were just doing soundcheck for Easter Sunday service the following morning. By the time Michelle and Erik showed up they were done! But we did have to navigate around the huge setup they had going on without getting it in our pictures. I think we did a pretty good job.

On another note…Michelle gets happiest bride of the year award. I don’t officially hand out awards here at Amanda Rae Photography but if I did she would get that award. Just take a look at these pictures and you’ll see what I mean.

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Normally if Mike and I get similar shots I’ll just show mine But I noticed a couple of times during this session where we got completely different angles of the same moment and it’s so fun to see how we each interpret that moment! This is my view:

And this is how Mike saw it:

One more time…this is what I saw:

And this is what Mike saw:

That was fun…onto the regular programming…

So, after we were done at the Santa Barbara Courthouse we separated to walk to our own cars to head over to the Mission. As we walked down this side street to get to our car we saw this balloon tunnel. Just sitting there all by itself. We ran back and yelled for Michelle and Erik to come back to play in it a little.

We all played:

Now, The Santa Barbara Mission:

One more of my view/his view. This is mine:

Mike’s view:

These last few pictures were all Mike’s, but I particularly love this shot he got:

One last picture…the dog joined! So cute!

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Iris & Erik {Engaged}

Amanda — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:54:32 +0000

This last weekend I met up with Iris and her fiance, Erik for an engagement session at the Topanga State Park in Topanga, CA. I met Iris and her sister a few months ago, but I didn’t get to meet Erik and his daughter until the day of their session. Fortunately for me, Erik is super cool so it wasn’t long till we were all laughing and having a great time! As soon as Iris stepped out of the car, I knew she was going to work the camera and she totally did.

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A quick outfit change and literally one shutter click of the sun before it went down behind the mountains. And look at those trees!!! Love the trees!

Erik’s daughter joined us for a few pictures and I love this one!

But I also really like this one

I think this one is my favorite from the day:

A little animated .gif to end the post:

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Also, a serious shout out to Iris’s sister, Roxy. She came along to the shoot and ended up carrying my camera bag the whole time! It was so nice and freeing not carrying that around, thank you!!!

And, to Erika and Iris, I can’t wait for your wedding next year!

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Meet {Michelle & Eric} Santa Barbara

Iris & Erik {Engaged}