Ellie | Old Salem Bridal Session

Courtney — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:17:00 +0000

I shot bridal portraits of fellow UNC alum Ellie Bucherati last week in Old Salem,
N.C. Ellie and I bonded the second week of freshmen year at UNC when
we randomly met at the Student Union and commiserated with each other
about how difficult the transition to college actually is. She was a
breath of fresh air for me six years ago, and she was the same during
our shoot. I had been having a pretty rough week, but after shooting
with Ellie I felt high off of all the shared creativity, laughter, and
good conversation.

I have shamelessly been watching reruns of America’s Next Top Model
for the past week, and it really paid off during this shoot. Ellie is a
natural model–her mom even claims that she has been posing since
birth! (Ellie’s “smizes”
would floor Tyra Banks herself). When Ellie asked me if it would be
weird to do a bridal shoot in a graveyard, the ANTM-obsessed artist in
me shouted, “HECK NO!” Ellie was bending herself in all sorts of
deliciously model-esque positions among tombstones and eerie cast iron
gates, and I couldn’t keep the Top Model photographer in my head from
shouting “Girl, that is FIERCE!!!” I’m pretty sure I squealed with
delight and babbled a number of ridiculous, semi-coherent exclamations
throughout the entire evening.

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