It turned out to be a beautiful day for Katie and Phil. They met during college at Monmouth University, so it was the obvious location for their GTKY session. Katie and Phil are very cool people with a classic, vintage style about them.  Phil loves James Dean, so I studied some of the iconic portraits of the actor and we took some shots of Phil in the same fashion. We hurried to the beach to finish our session.  Phil broke out some acoustic guitar, which he is rather awesome at.  This couple will be getting married this fall at The Merion in Cinnaminson.

The camera in this series was owned by her father who passed away.

A little James Dean action…

Maxine & Michael are getting married in 2011 and they are doing another Getting to Know You session in 2010, but they wanted to do a shoot right away for Christmas.  I came up with an idea of shooting at a tree farm in formal attire.  They loved the idea so I spoke with the owner of a local tree farm and he opened it for us after hours to shoot there.  We were lucky because the weekend after the shoot they were cutting all the trees down to sell for the holidays.