The best engagement photos don't look like photos. They look like a very good date: the places you two actually go, the hour the light is kindest, and room for whatever the evening decides. The plan is a small story. The rest improvises.
Skylines, side streets, the platform just before the train comes. The city you share is the truest backdrop there is, and it never needs a permit to look like itself.
Washington's marble was built for this: quiet halls, tall light, and room to be unhurried. A museum session feels like wandering, because mostly it is.
Skip the field at sunset if that isn't you. Book the diner booth, the record bins, the back row of the movies: the date you'd be having anyway, photographed like it matters. Because it does.
And when the field at sunset is you: the park at seven, the grass still warm, the light doing most of the talking. Bring the outfit you almost didn't dare to.
Proposals are photographed from a quiet distance, until the yes. The hands still shake a little. Keep that.
It can also just be a Tuesday, on the window seat, with the good coffee.
Sessions run an hour to ninety minutes, or two hours if you'd rather not rush. As many locations as the time allows, always timed to the light. Galleries arrive within three to four weeks, depending on the season. Outfit changes welcome. Dogs strongly encouraged.