A few weeks ago, I guerilla-photographed the proposal of my friends, Scott and Gretchen.  This took place outside of the Indianapolis Museum of Art in front of Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” sculpture.  I’ll show you what the sculpture looks like…

…because I sure as hell didn’t get it in the background from behind the BUSH that I was ever-so-creepily lurking behind.
I got there early and imagined this perfect shot that never happened.  The sculpture is kind of in the open, so unless I outright stood in the middle of the road, Gretchen was going to see me, and then the proposal would be messed up, and then they’d never get married, and I would have ruined both of their lives.(This is where my active imagination took me, in between waiting on the two of them to show up, and shooting cliche photographs of bees and flowers.)

Advantage point:

As soon as I saw them approaching the sculpture, I threw off my shoes and jumped into this bush. It was not what I had planned. I panicked.

But I did catch some good moments, I think.

When I asked Gretchen if she had seen me, she said, “at first I thought you were just some strange voyeur hiding in the bushes,” which is exactly what I felt like. Luckily, we are going back in October to shoot some fun engagement pictures, so you can actually see that Scott does, in fact, have a face.

CONGRATS, you crazy kids!