Frederique and Oakley recently got engaged, and they took advantage of my ‘Summer Nights’ portraiture special to have some engagement portraits done.
Fred told me that as well as being engagement portraits, she wanted the pictures to be a snapshot of their lives in Christchurch right now. Fred is originally from Montreal, Oakley is from Germany, and while they’ve been living in Christchurch for some years, Fred now commutes to Wellington by plane for work during the week and, as she pointed out, who knows where they’ll be in a few years’ time.
I spent an hour with this gorgeous young couple as we wandered up and down the banks of the iconic Avon River in Christchurch. In some of the pictures I included little details that are very ‘Christchurch-y’ as a reminder of the city in which they met. My favourite is the local city ducks. I brought some biscuits with me and we stopped to feed them along the riverbank, allowing me to get a shot that is one of Fred’s favourites.
Fred and Oakley were a lot of fun to photograph – and I never had to ask them to smile because they spent the whole time grinning like mad! Ah, young love.
Here’s a selection of some of my favourite images from our session:
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