When you know, you know.

posted June 2, 2011 in About

“So how’s this gonna go down?” I asked Krista on our second date.

Her reply: “It’s gotta be romantic. It’s gotta be a surprise. And you’ve got to talk with my Dad.”

Check, check, and check.

On Monday, May 30, 2011 at 6:30am, standing in a very special place on Bad Medicine Lake, MN, I surprised the woman of my dreams and asked her to marry me.

And she said Yes!
Krista’s father did a great job taking these keepsake photos of our actual engagement. Her Mom woke her early and told her there was something special she’d never seen before down by the lake. It was me, standing next to a tree holding her five of her favorite flowers I brought from Denver, white peonies: I’ve always wanted to get published in Patagonia magazine, and never in a million dreams would I imagine this image would be the first I’d submit: Pure photojournalism on this next shot as Krista realizes her father is right there, watching the whole thing unfold, with my D-700 in hand (and 70-200 f/2.8 VRII set to Aperture priority at f/4, 1/20 sec)… love the motion blur to match emotion: My future four-legged son, Willy the Labradoodle, liked what he saw. Love the colors and emotion (Way to go, Roger!): A self-portrait in a happy place: We savored the experience with a yummy home-cooked lunch on the dock of our dreams, a perfect addition to a perfect morning:
When you go through hell and back, you guard your heart closely. But then again, when you know, you know and you should celebrate it like everything else in life!