Rain, rain, rain… Simon and I were able to hold off the rain for just long enough to shoot with Kirby and Ryan by doing a backwards rain dance in the middle of the street while holding our breath and drinking a Diet Green Tea Snapple through our noses… and I am glad the rain held off, because this engagement shoot was AWESOME! It drizzled the whole time we were shooting, but that could not stop us!
My favs from the shoot:
Kat and Nick are pretty cool cats… or pretty cool kats… or pretty cool nicks… wait, that doesn’t sound right, nevermind… they are just pretty darn cool. Anyways, they met at the 5th Ward Pub, which turns out a week before we went there to start our shoot, they closed and Zim’s moved in. We shot there anyways, because the building is pretty much the same, and their memories did not close with the pub. From there we ran around the 5th Ward and made some photographs… of which these were some of my favorites that Simon and I made:
I have been friends with Sarah for quite a while. We met through mutual friends, I believe at a campfire? All I know is it was many years ago. When Sarah first contacted me, it was just to let me know that she was engaged. Later she contacted me again to inquire on hiring Valo to shoot her wedding. I was very stoked to hear Sarah and Tyler wanted to hire me to shoot their wedding. If there is one thing I like more than photographing a wedding, it is photographing a friends wedding.
The engagement session you are about to look at (hopefully, that is if you are still reading this… I usually skip ahead to the photos and then come back to read stuff) was a TON of fun. The locations were very cool, thanks to the scouting of Tyler. I got a lot of emails from them leading up to their engagement session of other e-sessions they had found around the Internet, photos from a scouting mission Tyler went on, and a lot of thoughts on location. This was great, because it let me see a little of what they were thinking of, and it made smile every time I got one of their emails, because I could tell how excited they were. When a couple is very excited about shooting, it makes my level of excitement rise as well. And so it kept amplifying, until we met up at Alterra and started shooting… Here is what I created on a perfect day, with a great couple…
We met up with Dana and Nick at the Orpheum early on a Saturday morning. We went from there and ran around Madison’s State St making some photographs of the two of them. Tons of fun to work with, check out some of the photos from the day:
Simon and I woke up very early to meet Kerry and Ben down by the Calatrava addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum. We wanted to catch the morning light, and it was so worth getting up a few minutes earlier than normal…
I really love when I am going through proofs and making my selections, when it is really hard to narrow things down because there are so many good shots. That is what happened here. I think it was because of the light as well as the willingness of Kerry and Ben to relax and have fun… It made for some fantastic photographs…
Kerry and Ben
Engagement shoot by the Lake
Jake Rohde
Valo Photography
Milwaukee, WI
