This sweet couple opted to have their engagement session during the late spring on UNC Chapel Hill’s campus. I always love an excuse to return to my alma mater, and with the diversity of flora and changing quality of light each season, no two shoots are the same.

This particular spring day was hot, but the light just before sunset was absolutely perfect. We hit some of the most iconic spots- The Old Well, Coker Arboretum, Davie Poplar, and the Forest Theater– but Beth and Anthony were not shy to go off the beaten path a bit and explore. We tromped through a less popular (but pretty!) field at the arboretum and found a fallen tree, which they gladly incorporated into the photos.

Beth + Ant, thanks so much for having so much fun with this shoot and contributing your own ideas to it! It was fun to collaborate with you both, and I can’t wait to work with you in 2015 for your wedding!

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The first time I ever photographed Yemeng and Chris was at a fort party hosted by my senior year roommates and I.  (It sounds like what it is: we built a massive fort out of linens in our Townhouse Apartment living room…the one with the graffiti walls). When I first photographed them they were wrestling and teasing each other in our furniture-deficient living room, and five years later they still had that lightheartedness to their relationship (but we all have more furniture). Our shoot was full of laughter and goofiness, and I really love that about this couple.

We spent the first half of our shoot at Merritt’s Pasture, a hidden gem of Chapel Hill that currently requires you to creatively enter via sewage pipe (walking across, not through).  Once you get past the somewhat precarious method of entering, you enter a beautiful field of yellow flowers…it looks like something from another part of the country!  We then trekked to the North Carolina Botanical Garden and finished our shoot at the Old Well and The Pit at Carolina.

Yemeng and Chris, thanks so much for being so fun to photograph! It’s always special for me to photograph college friends, and I’m looking forward to your wedding this spring!

Enjoy!

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