July 2026 / Prairie meadow, Kane County

A proposal in a wildflower field

Queen Anne's lace up to the waist, a storm sky coming in, and her hands over her face.

Her hands over her face the moment she realized, standing in a field of white and yellow wildflowers

Kane County has prairie restorations that come up shoulder high in July, and for about three weeks a year they are the best location within half an hour of Geneva. We had that window and a forecast that was going to close it.

The sky did what we hoped. The violet band that came over the field about twenty minutes in is not a filter, it is the front arriving. We kept shooting into it.

The frame with her hands over her face is the one they printed. It is not the sharpest picture from the session and it does not matter, because it is the only one where you can see exactly what she felt.

For anyone planning something similar: the hardest part of a proposal shoot is not the photography, it is the walk up to it. She needs a reason to be there that holds, and it has to be a reason that survives him behaving strangely for ten minutes beforehand. The ones that go smoothest are the ones where the location was already somewhere they went anyway.

Her face buried in her hands against his shoulder, the ring bright on her finger

He is on one knee in the tall grass on the slope, she has both hands to her mouth

Her hand on his neck with the ring showing, both of them laughing

The two of them walking into the meadow under a heavy violet sky

Running toward each other through the long grass, hands nearly touching

The couple standing in waist high Queen Anne's lace, arms around each other

Black and white: he dips her back for a kiss at the top of the field

Sitting together on the bank of a slow green river, feet in the grass

He lifts her off the ground on the field path, her dress catching the light

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