Rich and Heather in Hawaii 11-27-09
November 27, 2009, by Leslie Janous | Add a comment |We invited our good friends, Rich and Heather Smith (Rich also happens to be my photography mentor) to go to Hawaii with us. I wanted Rich to help me shoot our nephew, Brandon and his fiance, Rachel’s engagement session, as well as just hang out and enjoy the most beautiful place any of us have ever seen. We wanted to document the trip with mini photo sessions of each other. Rich had been checking out the property and had some very specific ideas in his mind of where he wanted their photos taken. It was my job to make his vision happen…no pressure there…
Rich and Heather are obviously fantastic to work with, they’re so sweet and so in love that their happiness together is easy to capture in photos.
Here are our favorites from their session.
I adore this photo of Heather…it’s so serene.
I love the intensity here.
Heather has THE best laugh. It lights up her entire face – I love it.
We were all in love with this amazing tree! Such a breathtaking location!
I love love love this photo!
So my priority for this shoot was to get “the wave shot”. It was the one photo Rich wanted above anything else…again…no pressure. The second one in this series is definitely “the wave shot”, however, we all really like this first one as well.
The Money Shot! Pretty fabulous, I must admit.
This is my absolute favorite photo of Heather from the shoot. I love the way the way the wind is gently blowing her hair back and the sunlight is showing through it. Gorgeous!!
Aren’t they a beautiful couple?? It was such a great experience for the student to photograph the teacher! Of course I was terribly nervous my shots wouldn’t live up to his vision, but they were actually thrilled with the images – yay!
Rich and Heather, thank you SO much for joining us on the trip! It was so fun hanging out with you guys.
Thank you for the opportunity to photograph you guys as well. It was a blast! I can’t wait for our next trip together…I’m thinking Bora Bora??
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Les, these photos are amazing! You did a fantastic job…no way they couldn’t be pleased:) So proud of you:)!!
Comment by Michele P — December 13, 2009 @ 2:54 PM
Leslie! It was SO much fun to look through these photos on YOUR BLOG! How exciting! The photos are incredible and we love them so much…and they are particularly awesome with your logo and on your blog with your crazy awesome post-processing. Wow. Thank you so, so, so much!
Comment by heather smith — December 13, 2009 @ 4:15 PM
OMG! this pictures are so awesome!
Comment by Brittany J. — December 13, 2009 @ 8:30 PM
Leslie,
These are fantastic! The only issue that I have is that Rich didn’t get his jeans wet enough and that you didn’t make him lay on sharp edged rocks… For real real though, you did an amazing job with these. They look so great!!!
Comment by Brandon — December 13, 2009 @ 8:56 PM
You are so amazing!!!!!!! You truly have a gift. All of the pictures are gorgeous
Comment by Aimee — December 13, 2009 @ 9:16 PM
Love all the pictures!!! So proud of you.
Comment by hope — December 14, 2009 @ 5:22 PM
Leslie you did an amazing job capturing some incredible moments! Of course I love “the wave picture” but the ones with the palm trees have to be my favorite
And the sunset one is breathtaking! Congrats on an awesome session!
Comment by Rachel — December 15, 2009 @ 2:21 PM