{"id":3885,"date":"2012-09-06T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donmearsphotography.com\/dmpblog\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2012-09-06T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:37:24","slug":"emily-and-patrick-an-engagement-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donmearsphotography.com\/blog\/emily-and-patrick-an-engagement-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily and Patrick &#8211; An Engagement Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first of three posts today in what we&#8217;ll call an image extravaganza for the Grauel-McKenzie Wedding.\u00a0 Emily and Patrick spent quite a bit of time with us during their wedding week so I decided to try something a little different with their blog posts.\u00a0 Consider it thrown against the wall and now we&#8217;ll see if it sticks.\u00a0 First up we&#8217;ll introduce you to the couple\u00a0 just before the wedding day and their romp through downtown Richmond for the engagement session.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve said it many times and I&#8217;ll say it again, Richmond is absolutely a remarkable place to be a photographer.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no way in my lifetime that I&#8217;ll run out of corners to turn so I can be surprised by what I find.\u00a0 The three of us had a fun time wandering about looking for new and fun things to sit on or, in their case, dance around in (see parking lot shot!).\u00a0 Enjoy and more to come very soon!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/donmearsphotography.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/grauel-mckenzie-blog-esession-preview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3886\" title=\"grauel-mckenzie-blog-esession-preview\" src=\"http:\/\/donmearsphotography.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/grauel-mckenzie-blog-esession-preview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donmearsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/grauel-mckenzie-blog-esession-preview.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/donmearsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/grauel-mckenzie-blog-esession-preview-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/donmearsphotography.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/grauel-mckenzie-blog-esession.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3887\" title=\"grauel-mckenzie-blog-esession\" src=\"http:\/\/donmearsphotography.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/grauel-mckenzie-blog-esession.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donmearsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/grauel-mckenzie-blog-esession.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/donmearsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/grauel-mckenzie-blog-esession-166x300.jpg 166w, https:\/\/donmearsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/grauel-mckenzie-blog-esession-568x1024.jpg 568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first of three posts today in what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weddings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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