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The city of Venice, Italy blows NY City away. The whole city is one huge canvas for shooting romantic photographs. Our wonderful couple were up with us late into the night and early in the morning capturing the most delightful images. Venice is the home of many famous artists and private collections. We were so thankful for having this opportunity to photograph such beautiful couple in the most beautiful city of the world. After three full days shooting, roughly four of hours sleep and a sore body from carrying camera gear over bridges and cobblestone, these few highlights from our trip are just a sample of what’s to come. I am off to bed and in recovery. West bound international travel is so much more taxing than East bound. The first two images were taken by my associate photographer Gary Guy. The black & white photo was taken during the last night of our trip in the rain.

Last Winter Engagement session of the year saw our clients, Stephanie + Rock, at our secret Winter engagement location. This location is filled with Crape Myrtles, hibernating for the winter. Absolutely love these crape myrtles without their summer blooms. This looks totally wicked and creates the perfect setting for a mystical engagement photo shoot. Located just minutes from Downtown Houston, we were also able to squeeze in these awesome Urban style engagement photos with our precious clients. We came across this this classic American black convertible in front of Warren’s, located in the heart of downtown Houston. Gary Guy Photographer assisted in this spectacular photo shoot and was very helpful in tweaking out the composition of this very fine photograph. We concluded the photo shoot inside an Art Gallery. The owners were gracious to allow us a few minutes to get creative and create this spectacular silhouette of Stephanie + Rock between two works of art. I named the photograph, “Shadow Gallery.”

Absolutely love photographing Engagement sessions downtown Houston in the Spring time. Weather could not have been any more perfect for this downtown session with Alyssa and Carson. We had a very versatile style photo shoot covering several different locations. The photo shoot began about an hour and a half before dusk on the streets of Houston, Sunday evening. We made a quick wardrobe change inside Hotel Icon and back out on the streets again for night work. Very disappointed to see Main street as dead as it is now compared to a few years ago around the Super Bowl in 04. Main street was lit with exciting neon colors up and down the entire street. It seems now most of the spaces along Main street are vacant, up for lease. Our once exciting colorful street is now dark. I hope Main street recovers. We sure miss all of the colorful lights at night.