Pam & Jay | Milwaukee Engagement Photography

Pam & Jay have a such a fun story to tell. The details are sweet and romantic, their history together already rich with vivid places and spaces they’ve explored together. He’s from the Boston area, she from Chicago but they met in our fair city of Milwaukee at Marquette. Big bodies of water figure prominently in both their histories – his summers on the Cape, her years with Lake Michigan as the defining spacial marker plus a year spent in Ireland, an island after all – meant that we had to go to the lakefront for their engagement session. Turns out, he proposed to her at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Water, water everywhere.

Our day together was brilliant and clear and the water acted like a natural reflector making every shot perfectly lit. There are a whole slew of gorgeous blue water photos that we made , but I’m only sharing one or two here with perfect bokeh, the rest I’ve chosen because of the delicate other-worldly toning I really like.

Since they met at Marquette and have such differing, but equally ardent academic loves (he’s a social studies teacher with history and non-fiction on the brain while she’s a copy writer who’s first love might just have been the thesaurus) I convinced them to play around on campus with me. I’m positively in love with La Lumiere Hall and its ovoid projections so they humored me and jumped inside them for a series of images that number among my all-time favorites.

Apparently Jay wears a tie to work every day and loves them. The last image on the right just seems so quintessentially *them* without even seeing their faces. I’m excited to see what the wedding tie looks like!

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