Golden Isles Portrait Photographer || Pride and Prejudice Styled Shoot

A few weeks ago, my friend Kendra came to visit for 2 weeks. Seeing as we're both photographers, we obviously had to have plenty of photo shoots. ;) (we may or may not have gotten tired of photo shoots by the end of the two weeks. yes, it is possible for photographers to get tired of taking pictures. i know i just blew your mind.)

Anyway, this photo shoot was kind of last minute and extremely crazy. It all started one night when we were watching Pride and Prejudice (i mean that's what all teenage girls do when they get together, right?) After screaming at Elizabeth to "just kiss his face already," we were suddenly inspired to do a photo shoot inspired by Pride and Prejudice/Keira Knightley. So we began to get this amazing picture in our minds, plan the hair, the make-up, the dress, everything. We searched for hours for the perfect dress, ended up never finding it, and thought we would have to cancel the shoot. Then we get home and find the perfect dress right under our noses in the closet. Whoops.

So things were finally starting to come together. We thought this shoot would be perfect - nice and relaxed, everything great. Ha, no.

Instead, we have just walked in the door from another event, realize we only have like 2 days left before Kendra has to leave, and freak out. "Oh no, we still have to do the Keira Knightley shoot! We have to do it tonight!" Cue the wild searching because where did we leave that dress?!, crazy clicking of keys as we look up youtube videos for the hair, and the sighs of despair as we look in the mirror to see sloppily applied mascara.

After finally getting everything in the car, driving in the searing heat and getting make-up melted off our faces, we arrived at our destination - a very sunny beach.
Like very sunny.
This is the part where we argue discuss how Kendra told me we should have come later in the day! Several crushed lighting dreams later, we decided to move locations.

                           (this picture is the result of "kendra, stop driving! i see a picture!")

We drove all the way around the island to finally arrive at another beach. Thankfully, the sun had gone down quite a bit, and the lighting was now pretty much perfect.

After getting a few shots I actually thought I liked, we piled back in the car and drove home. What started as a crazy last minute plan ended as driving down the highway with the top down on the car, listening to the best music.

This shoot was definitely crazy, but I love the results, and even though we get burned out sometimes, it's always fun to do a photo shoot with Kendra. :)