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Ben and Renée are two sweet friends and I was honored to do their engagement shoot.

I just posted the photos yesterday so check out more photos of this delightful couple on my blog, here.

This is my first post from Lightroom 4! Sadly the program can't keep track of all the previous uploads I made in version 3 but hey, you can't always get what you want.

I've found a photographer who is just as willing to brave the elements and cold as I am! Ruby Tanja is a massively talented young woman I met through Heidi and this was our first shoot together.

We dragged all the props/equipment through a field and into a forest where we set up a shot. This is a composite image of 5 or 6 images. Ruby does a lot of fashion work if you go check out her blog and she has opened my eyes to the world of composite images. I hope to have many more collaborations with this fantastic artist.

A shot from Amsterdam.

Thank the lord for Raw. This was super underexposed and unusable straight out of the camera (SOOC). Now it's has "character" with all the noise going on but at least you can see the details! If you're not shooting in raw, you should be.

Space is cheap,

buy a hard drive!

I spent the weekend with my wife at her parents' house. They're selling the property and moving across the state to be closer to us and their other daughter/son-in-law.

On Saturday, I walked around with Heidi as we visited locations in her neighborhood that had special meaning to her. I was happy to be able to have so many fond memories of these places from my own life. The field behind their house (where we started dating), the tree in that field (where we picnicked a year later), the pond where her father and I photowalked at dawn (and where I took this image) all will be missed. There were many memories for me but 24 years worth of memories for her, my wonderful wife. I love being her partner and sidekick. The chance to share in the nostalgia and such happy memories was fantastic.

Above, Heidi is standing in the lane behind their house.

As our group was walking into the heart of Amsterdam, we passed by an open door at the top of a stairwell. I stuck my camera in, snapped this shot in the pre-dawn light, and continued on. In this case, there isn't any foul language... at least I'm fairly sure. Some of the other graffiti shots I took have questionable content.

In other news, the canon 5Dmark iii is announced! I'm super excited to have the aspects that I loved in the 7D on a full frame camera :) *Happy dance*