Sometimes it just clicks. And when you start to get birthday e-mails from a client you haven’t met yet, you know it’s one of those times. With Ann being from New York, her time pre-wedding in Chicago were few and far between, so I never had a chance to personally meet her prior to our session in late July. But for Ann and Jim, it didn’t matter. I could have been a random stranger who walked up to them and asked to take their picture, and they would have killed it. Because it wasn’t about how comfortable they were with me- it was how comfortable they were with each.
The day after the “Chicago Flood of 2010“, we headed out to Navy Pier in downtown Chicago, for a day that was a lot hotter and a lot busier than we expected, but it didn’t slow us down.
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Can’t wait for the wedding in next week!