Elina and Mike’s Engagement – A Walk on the Lake

In a few months I’ll be doing the photos for Elina and Mike’s wedding and we initially discussed various locations to do their portraits on the day of the wedding. Downtown Chicago along the lakefront was one of the possibilities, but instead of doing that location on the day of the wedding with traffic and other factors to worry about, they opted to do a more casual engagement portrait session there at sunset. As we traveled down towards the Planetarium, we took a wrong exit off the highway which ended up being a good thing. While waiting in the car in a little bit of traffic of of Ohio, there was an alley that I was looking at and noticed a pretty cool setting. So I asked Mike to back up and pull into the alley for us to snap a quick photo (#1 below) before continuing to our destination. After that it was a nice and almost windless evening…almost 🙂

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