Claire & Sam | Milwaukee Beach Engagement Photography

Sometimes before engagement sessions I look back at my notes from my first meeting with a couple and I see the phrase “they think they aren’t photogenic” and I smile, because I know that two people in love meandering the city on a beautiful day is always photogenic. Claire & Sam’s notes may have contained a further phrase – “he hates photos” – but once we settled into our session gone was all trace of that guy and instead before me was a couple so happy and comfortable together the camera couldn’t help but love them, too. We started in their current neighborhood and walked in the shadow of the building they live in, tracing paths along the river and the bridge that they’ll soon bid farewell to as they look for a house together. Then we chased sunlight on the beach with their adorable, goofy, giant of a dog named Gus in tow. I loved seeing Claire & Sam slowly give in to the laughter and love and fun and light, forgetting that I was there, forgetting that the night had anything to do with being photogenic and instead letting it just be about being together.