I’ve been waiting for the right opportunity to shoot at the Fairmount Park Water Works for some time now, and this weekend, I got just that with Rachel and Kevin for their engagement pictures! If you’re not familiar with the Water Works, you should definitely check it out, because it provides some great backdrops for some outstanding photos; from cool columns, to views of the river and Boathouse Row, there’s lots to see there! Trouble was that there is a large maintenance and renovation effort going on there at the moment, which took away our chance to get some of those columned scenes, but we didn’t let that stop us from getting some outstanding pictures! I mean… go ahead and top a winding spiral staircase going down towards the river through the trees in the late afternoon!
Rachel and Kevin are getting married in October of 2008, and it was time to go out and kill a couple of birds with one stone. We met at the Water Works to take some engagement shots of the two of them, and also to scout out some possible locations for the photos that we will be taking on their wedding day! It was a great interactive process, which allowed me to get a much better idea of what they will want on their wedding day, without having to guess whether or not they would like the location. And we had a great time doing it!
Water Works is located just behind the Philadelphia Art Museum, which… is a land mark all onto itself. There is a very characteristic view from its steps, where you can see a great skyline of Philadelphia. Kevin was very adamant that their pictures show that they were shot in Philly. He’s a native and proud of it, and that’s exactly what we got at the Art Museum. We stopped for the obligatory shot at the Rocky statue (I mean… how could we resist!?) and after shooting around for a bit on the steps went down into the circle to get a few shots at the fountains. It was a great time, even with all of the construction going on. Thanks for the great afternoon, guys!
