Lindsay & Russell : Engaged

I have known Lindsay about three years now, but it feels like way longer. We both were photo majors together at MICA but it took France for us to become friends. I’ll be honest. I was intimidated, not by Lindsay specifically, but by pretty much everyone my first two years of school. At the beginning of our Junior year Lindsay went off to Paris and I went of to Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. These four months in France definitely changed not only my art but me as a person. I’ve always been independent but France forced me to take my guard down. To open up and try new things. So, off I went to explore Paris. There I got to know Lindsay over several bottles of wine underneath the Tour Eiffle.

When we were back in Baltimore, Lindsay suggested we have a show together of our work we made abroad. We did just that. From then on we were not only photo friends, but every other kind of friend there is. It is such a comfort and a relief to have each other to call for camera help and business advice, email each other new inspirations and articles, and of course just to chat. I had moved back home for a few months after I graduated, and not so late one December night, I got a call from Lindsay and let out a little yelp, well a pretty big yelp. My mom came in my room (how very 6th grade) and informed me she was trying to sleep.  I informed her that Lindsay just got engaged!!! Enter Russell. Well, not really. They’d already been together a few years by the time Linds and I became friends. So for me, Russell was always part of the picture. I like Russell because he really surprises me sometimes. He can be serious and adamant about something one minute and then funny and goofy the next. Sort of like this shoot.

I went to visit Baltimore earlier this month and Lindsay asked if I’d want to do her and Russell’s engagement pictures. My response of course was, “Heck yeah!” Russell on the other hand needed a little more convincing. Finally, he reluctantly agreed. True to from, he surprised me. I got them both smiling and laughing and gasp…he actually admitted to enjoying himself! Probably also because he got to play hookie from work for two hours on a Wednesday morning :)

Lindsay and Russell, I couldn’t be happier for you. Thank you for opening your home to me every time I come back to Baltimore. And thank you for allowing me to be the one to document your love.

Linds, you are fierce and I love it.