Trystan Photography: An Intimate Portrait.

It’s that time of year again, for senior photos! I’ve been rocking out a lot of senior sessions lately, and with yearbook deadlines, etc… I’ve obviously dropped the ball on blogging any of them. So I’ll start now.

Meet Leticia and Brett, they are boyfriend and girlfriend, and just lovely!

This was such a fun session, because it was a combination of senior photos for both Leticia and Brett, and then we also threw some couple photos of the two of them into the mix.

Leticia is clearly drop dead gorgeous and Brett is just as handsome, but the best part was how comfortable they were around each other. I know I couldn’t have posed and acted natural for my senior photos, in front of my high school boyfriend, there’s no way, but these guys rocked it!

We really had a great time running around downtown Colorado Springs, discovering dark and creepy alleys, and making some cool photos. I love it when my clients are up for playing and finding new areas to shoot at. It does take some patience, especially with me and my photographers A.D.D.  I’m constantly like, “oh that looks cool, let’s go over there”, and “ooh let’s try something different”, and “OK, never-mind, that doesn’t work the way I wanted it to”, and “look at that wall, let’s walk down there”, and “I know this alley is filthy, dark and rather scary, but come on, it’ll make for an awesome shot”!  I’m sure most of the time, they’re thinking, “um, really? All I see are cigarette butts, dirty brick walls and weeds growing out of the cracks in the ground”!

Thank you Leticia and Brett for putting your faith in me to take your senior photos, I love love how the shots turned out. I attribute most of that to your easy going, fun and “up for anything” personalities!  I wish you guys the best of luck with your senior year, and who knows, maybe you’ll come to me someday for wedding photos!

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Please click the photo or follow the link to view Kasey and Lisa’s wedding at The Blackstone Country Club.

Obviously, by hot, I don’t just mean in a sexy or beautiful kind-of-way (which this wedding was), I literally mean it was HOT. Like well over 100 degrees at times, I bet. I was absolutely baking, but I didn’t utter a word of complaint because I was just in black pants and a short sleeve shirt. The guys were in full black suits. And they were tough sons-a-bitches, let me tell you. They were hardcore, with just a few cocktails and cups of water, we ran all over that golf course without a single protest.

This was a wedding full of hot, hot, heat and hot, hot, love. Lisa and Kasey are completely into each other, and their wedding was a breeze. Now, normally I would go on and on about how great they were and fun, and they were, but I have something much more important to discuss now: the art of the rowdy reception.

Many receptions are more tame, even formal. Lisa and Kasey’s was formal and structured in the beginning, but… holy crap. When all the official events of the reception were over and the older guests started to leave and the drinks began to flow, their crew got rowdy. And there is nothing more entertaining for a wedding photographer to shoot than a rowdy, fun reception.

This generation of brides and grooms has already set a new standard for wedding fun. We hang out ’til the end (no early leaving to the hotel room), and we almost always dance our butts off. But as a professional photographer, I’m sincerely asking all of our future brides and grooms: find your inner rowdy. Trust me. It makes it better.

Kasey did push the envelope a bit: after one successful break-dance/gymnastics/walk-on hands dance-thingy, he then decided he could do it even BETTER and tried again. And as his newly minted wife looked on in horror, Kasey proceeded to practically break his back from a “slight” over-balancing whilst upside down. But he sprang to his feet and kissed his wife, who still looked furious and scared. But, good old Kasey, he had her right out dancing within moments. I’m pretty sure he was sore the next day though… from the fall, I mean. Sheeeeesh, people.

Please click the photo or follow the link to view our favorite photographs from Amber and Pete’s wedding at The Cheyenne Lodge at The Broadmoor.

Joy. Love. Passion. Sorrow. Laughter. Exuberance. Fun. Romance. Intimacy.

These are just some of the words that spring to my mind when I think of what emotions are experienced at the weddings we photograph. Amber and Pete’s wedding was even more-so.

Amber and Pete, already one of the most joyous and in-your-face-affectionate couples from 2010′s engagement sessions, proved to be exactly that on the wedding day. They are so in love, and so into each other, that this infectious sense of celebration was palpable throughout the day.

However, the emotions covered the gamut, from joy to heartbreak because Amber and her sisters (2 of 3 bridesmaids) recently lost their mother. And that loss made the day the most meaningful kind of bittersweet. For as one story ends, another begins.

So there were smiles of joy, tears of sorrow, and every emotion seemed to blend effortlessly into the other, so instead of battling each other like polar opposites, the emotional swings of the day seemed to add to the sense of gratitude, hope and love for the entire day.

This wedding was an honor to to merely be there to behold, much less capture for them. Thank you Amber and Pete, for entrusting this amazing day to Char and I.