There is no doubt that this engagement session will always be a memorable one. Kelly and Jake wanted some shots by the lake at sunrise. Easy right?

Mother nature had other plans.

The night before and that morning were nothing but rain. There looked like we might get a brief break for about 30 minutes around the time of our session so we decided to go for it. We go sooooooo lucky! It was sprinkles for the first 20 minutes or so and unfortunately the sun didn’t really make an appearance until the very end for about 2 minutes. Despite all that we had a great time! They laughed and smiled through it all.

About 5 minutes after I got back in my car the sky opened up and unleashed a crazy storm with thunder, lightning and downpours. I’m still not sure how we managed to squeeze in during the one hour it let up!

They are getting married out of state this year, but it was a pleasure taking some shots of them in their current city of Chicago!

Here are some of my favorites.