Dani & Alci | love always wins
The year following their wedding I asked these two beauties to meet up with me along the water for a session all about love. Working with them is pure joy and absolutely heartwarming.
They vibrate with love and have this infectious energy that makes it so your face literally hurts from smiling.
Despite being a wedding photographer, I don’t do a lot of love sessions. Not everyone does engagement photos, nor will a lot of people do couples photos just because. Plus the fact that engagement shoots tend to get a bad wrap due to the cheesy component that some might put into them. But they don’t have to be and when it comes to me, the only cheese I like is the kind you pick up at the grocery store.
When it comes to photos, people seem to think you have to have a reason to book a photography session. A reason like getting engaged, getting a new dog, or getting pregnant, or adding members to the family. But why should there be a reason to book a photoshoot to capture your love? There shouldn’t be.
Just being in love and growing old with that person you thought was the coolest out of every single person you’ve ever met is the most incredible thing.
THAT is enough of a reason. Life goes by too fast, and if you don’t stop for a second you might just miss it.
I’ve always loved that Allan Watts quote about falling love, so if you haven’t heard it, this is your chance:
“Well now really when we go back into falling in love. And say, it's crazy. Falling. You see? We don't say "rising into love". There is in it, the idea of the fall. And it goes back, as a matter of fact, to extremely fundamental things. That there is always a curious tie at some point between the fall and the creation. Taking this ghastly risk is the condition of there being life. You see, for all life is an act of faith and an act of gamble. The moment you take a step, you do so on an act of faith because you don't really know that the floor's not going to give under your feet. The moment you take a journey, what an act of faith. The moment that you enter into any kind of human undertaking in relationship, what an act of faith. See, you've given yourself up. But this is the most powerful thing that can be done: surrender. See. And love is an act of surrender to another person. Total abandonment. I give myself to you. Take me. Do anything you like with me. See. So, that's quite mad because you see, it's letting things get out of control. All sensible people keep things in control. Watch it, watch it, watch it. Security? Vigilance Watch it. Police? Watch it. Guards? Watch it. Who's going to watch the guards? So, actually, therefore, the course of wisdom, what is really sensible, is to let go, is to commit oneself, to give oneself up and that's quite mad. So we come to the strange conclusion that in madness lies sanity”
And now, for my little water edge love session with these two beauties. Dani & Alci, thank you for another gorgeous time together. xo
