LOOKSLIKEFILM CHALLENGE

This weeks topic: Your perfect Sunday (#yourperfectsunday)

Three months prior to Sunday, January 21st: I send a totally not creepy message to a random guy on Instagram saying “Hey! Totally not creepy- but you and your wife (I don’t know why I thought this I saw a photo of them at a wedding and assumed it was theirs) are ADORABLE and look so in love. I’m a photographer and would love if you guys would be willing to model for me in a couple’s shoot sometime in the next few months!” Colin replied within a few minutes “She’s actually not my wife YET, but thank you so much! I’m actually planning on buying a ring in the next month or two. Could I maybe pay you to shoot the proposal instead?”

Three weeks prior to Sunday, January 21st: Colin spends WEEKS collecting all different antiques to fill a friend’s empty barn, styling it all by himself and making it look like a cozy cabin for the “styled shoot” Julia thinks she’s about to participate in.

Sunday, January 21st: It’s cold and sunny and there’s a light dusting of snow in the cozy quiet corner of Connecticut no one knows about. We spend the morning at a diner and then wandering around the property shooting. We make our way up to the loft of the barn and I ask Julia to look out the window. Switch the music on the Bluetooth speaker to “January Wedding” by the Avett Brothers. That’s the cue. He takes a deep breath with his eyes welling up (I’m already full-blown crying at this point that’s not an exaggeration) and kneels down behind her. Taps her on the shoulder and…

…it was the absolute most perfect Sunday.

1st Place: Emily Kaar – www.instagram.com/emilykaar

See more images, which participated in the “Your perfect Sunday” – challenge:

Lillie Bullock Photography – www.lbullock.photography

Milosz Bolechowski – www.bolechowski.pl

Erik McRitchie – www.facebook.com/erik.mcritchie

Marc Lüthi – www.cramarts.ch

Do you love to challenge yourself from time to time? This is what LOOKSLIKEFILM Challange is all about. We are regularly creating challenges with different photography topics, which we announce in our Facebook group and over here. There are no restrictions on the style of photography you’re a part of. It’s all about the image and the story behind it that has to be related to the weekly theme. The judges are our whole LLF community because the likes they’re giving count who will win a challenge in the end.