The Big Picture » Engagements http://www.robwitzel.com/blog Visual Journal Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:16:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Engagement- Michael and Rebeka http://www.robwitzel.com/blog/2011/12/engagement-michael-and-rebeka/ http://www.robwitzel.com/blog/2011/12/engagement-michael-and-rebeka/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:27:08 +0000 Rob Witzel http://www.robwitzel.com/blog/?p=8516 OK, so this one was more than fun. It was a blast! Using this super fun couple’s love of music, photography, skating etc, we descended on downtown Gainesville and just went at it with some loose and candid photography. I had known Rebekah from her days at the Gainesville Sun but when I met her and Mike together I knew it was just the kind of engagement shoot that Marian and I really have fun with.

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There are some people that get it and are naturals. Matt and Tonya are that way. Naturals. We spent more time with this shoot than normal because we just kept getting so many great moments. That is reflected by the length of this blog post.

As always, our goal with engagement shoots is for the people that know and love them to say- “YES, you captured them” and I really feel like we achieved that on this.

Hope you agree.

Enjoy!

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So glad they brought bubbles and the “Walter the Farting Dog” book. Priceless.

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In order to beat the summer heat, we met this awesome couple for a sunrise engagement shot along Paynes Prairie and in downtown Micanopy. Amazing locations that we don’t always get to enjoy. We had such a blast and minus a few swarms of mosquitois, everything went perfect. They have a super-fun wedding planned for later this year and this was such a great first start.

Enjoy!

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Enjoy!!

btw- I promise to blog some of the awesome charity work that Marian and I have been working on during our “break.”

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