why Alana let us photograph her outside in freezing temperatures let alone trust us with her life inside of my car is beyond me but she did and we love her for it.
Erin and I presented the idea of doing an outdoor winter photo shoot to Alana, and she didn't even hesitate to say yes. not for a second. this is the kind of crazy awesome girl Alana is.
we felt like winter gets a bad rep and we wanted to bring some beauty to the season. It may be cold and it may suck shoveling your car off or bundling up in a thousand layers, but if you are from the Midwest you know we all endure it, and we all stay because we love the changing of the seasons and when winter fades into spring.
not to mention winter is prime cuddle season. so for that reason alone we thought it would be fitting to do a trash the dress in the snow.
We started again at north ave beach since this is where we got the idea when we were shooting Jenny and Anthony's engagement session. The lake when frozen looks like another planet. Erin and I thought it had a quiet beauty and serenity that we wanted to capture. Erin and I both love to shoot people and don't often shoot landscapes. we talked on the ride up there about how we will see these beautiful landscapes and immediately want to stick people in them. even if they are small in the frame.
Alana was such a trooper. She wore as many layers as she could underneath the dress and we would run to and from my car to warm up and then to start shooting again.
I swear to you she did not complain once. not even once did the words "its cold out here" leave her mouth. That woman is bad ass. I would have been complaining for anyone who was listening. Actually I was complaining and I was dressed like this...
Erin on the other hand didn't have as much luck as Alana did this day.
she fell in the snow...
twice.
and hit herself in the face with her camera.
and at one point she stuck her foot up to her ankle in a massive, gross puddle, which we for the rest of the day referred to as "poo soup" but she marched onward, camera in hand. This is the kind of dedication that I admire in her. even after falling in the snow she yelled "why are you not taking pictures of this!" when I tried to help her up. I love her. and I am fairly confident she would still be my friend had I really peed my pants laughing which was a legitimate concern at this point.
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We also made friends with a dog name honey. I was especially stoked about this because I love great Pyrenees and her owner chatted us up about Janis Joplin and numerous other topics and didn't seem to notice how Cold Alana must have been standing there waiting for us to finish.
Alana also let us make a spectacle out of her even after I almost killed her driving the wrong way on a one way street to get there. I blame that mishap on the woman who erroneously told me to turn left on a street I could not turn left on, never mind that they have signs that say otherwise. This may or may not have been Karma getting me back for cheating the parking gods a second a time.
We went to the contemporary art museum to shoot in their incredible stairwell and Alana trekked around the whole museum in a wedding dress despite stares of bewilderment from the museums patrons.
we are really happy Alana let us talk her into going on this crazy shenanigan of an adventure with us and that she remained beautiful and cooperative the whole time. and that she didn't hold it against us that we promised her hot chocolate and then didn't get her any.
and we hope you enjoy the photos as much as we enjoyed shooting them. We hope that in the seasons of winter when you're forced inside because of the cold everyone will remember that "in the midst of all this ice and snow our hearts stay warm because they are filled with hope."
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