Emma and Jim and such an interesting combo. Emma has more degrees than I can count on my fingers, well maybe not that many but she has a ton! And Jim is kicking ass every week as a Fire Fighter. Maybe at first that doesn’t sound like a match but make no mistake they are perfect for each other and completely ridiculous! As soon as I asked them to get together for their first portrait they they were joking around with “ooooo” and  “awwww” making the whole thing so funny.

They are the first couple to ever take me up on a Sunrise engagement session, and I’ll tell you right now it was nearly as painful as you might imagine. If you ignore how how we met at 5:40am, it was about 39°, and really windy, it was absolutely perfect. We started out at the beach, ran into the North Pond area to escape the wind, and finished off the shoot by attempting to break into Finkl Steel. What we were really looking for was some molten metal in the background of some portraits but the workers wouldn’t let us that close. So we settled on some steaming pile of cooling steel.