Trystan Photography: An Intimate Portrait.

I got an email yesterday from a past client who is chair of an auction committee for an annual fundraiser event for www.MyLifeline.org.  MyLifeline is an INCREDIBLE nonprofit organization based in Denver that provides free personal websites for cancer patients. Using their website, patients can easily update friends and family on the progress of their treatment, allowing them to focus on healing and recovery. It truly makes a difference!  They will be holding a Kentucky Derby themed party this year at Invesco Field as a fundraiser.

Tryg and I have decided to do donate to the silent auction and hopefully we can attend the event as well.  MyLifeline.org looks like an incredible foundation and I’m hoping to get involved with this more.  If you are interested in making a donation or becoming a company sponsor please contact:

Kristen Kirsh

@ Alisa Benay Bridal Couture

Cell: 303.646.7055

www.alisabenay.com

www.alisabenay.com/blog

Kristen represents a bridal line “Alisa Benay Bridal Couture.”  which are incredible vintage inspired wedding gowns, and the designer is local. You should check out her website if you get a minute. These dresses make me want to plan a 2nd wedding (to Tryg again, of course)!

For those of you who are already a fan of our fan page on Facebook, you’ve probably already seen the updates about this…

For those of you that are not a fan already: 1st of all, “Shame, shame…”, 2nd of all you need to get over to the fan page (http://www.facebook.com/trystanphotography), become a fan, and check out the note we wrote about the new “Facebook Fan Foto Contest”.

Fabulous prizes, fame, and unending amounts of envy from others await you and your favorite wedding photo!

Loyal readers and the women of Colorado: Trystan Photography is delighted to announce after months of hard work and design, our co-founder Charlotte Bundgaard has launched her own boutique boudoir photography brand, “L Boudoir“.

L Boudoir is now the premier boudoir studio in Denver and Colorado Springs. Charlotte’s art has achieved new heights of unmatched skill, and we’re so excited to showcase it within such a sexy new brand like “L Boudoir”.

So please stop by the new blog-site! Ladies: make sure to share it with your friends, and make sure to grab the L Boudoir RSS feed so you can stay up-to-date on all of Charlotte’s latest announcements!

Got a Facebook account? Become a fan of L Boudoir’s Facebook Page here.

Don’t miss out on our annual wedding special!

If you book your wedding with us before 1/31/2010 and include a Graphistudio wedding album, and get two 6″ parent’s album copies FREE!

It’s a great savings and a wonderful gift for your parents. Schedule your consultation today!

In Denver call 303.872.4678, and in the Springs call 719.359.5520 or e-mail us at info@trystanphotography.com.

Check out our sample Graphistudio album layouts

At the writing of this blog post, there is t-minus 12 hours left until Trystan Photography’s 1st ever Viral Fan Challenge comes to a close.

Don’t miss out on your chance to win fabulous prizes.

It’s easy to enter. Simply go to the discusssion board at our Facbook Fan Page and check out the official rules. Oh yeah, you have to have a Facebook profile to play. (Sorry Myspace users.)

What is a VFC (Viral Fan Challenge)? It’s a series of simple steps that you have to complete that will promote Trystan Photography virally through social networks.

What are the fabulous prizes? You can chose to have your name entered in one of two drawings for either a brand new Ipod Touch (8 GB), or a $500 gift certificate to Trystan Photography. Interestingly, there a very few entrants for the Ipod: everybody wants the gift certificate. (What do you think about them apples, Apple?!?)

So check out the rules, complete the challenge, enter the drawing… and good luck!

It’s that time of year again, and the Colorado Springs Independent has opened voting for it’s annual “Best of” awards. Kim, Charlotte and I are very proud of our loyal clients, and we’re very content and happy with just being self-employed and paying the bills! However, there comes a time when one thinks, “Hey, it’d be fun to win an award…”

Well, it would be fun to win an award this year.

So, we humbly ask if you valued your photography from us, if you could please venture on over to the CS Indy’s Online Ballot and pencil us in for “Best Photographer” that would be awesome! (You’ll find that category at the bottom of the survey)

Thank you to all of our clients for such great referrals and all the good word: 2009 is the best year ever for weddings at Trystan Photography!

We are absolutely honored by the demand for our work.

The Highlights:

All packages now include the wedding & engagement digital files on disc.

The engagement session now includes a custom photo book for guests to sign.

Graphistudio albums include Kodak Metallic pricing.

It’s rare when you stumble across a talent so gifted and natural that it inspires you as a photographer.

Photography is hard for most. It’s easier for some. And then there are the few that make it look almost effortless.

Kim Harms has that kind of talent. She takes photos that are so stunning, and yet she is so unassuming about the whole thing, that it kindles a kind of jealousy within me. That’s right. I said it. Jealousy.

Char and I knew we were onto something special years ago when Kim first started assisting for us. She has this incredible eye which coupled with her completely unassuming demeanor makes it very fun and relaxing to shoot with her. She never seems stressed, she never seems bothered, and photography never seems hard for her.

And the best part is there has never been a photo shoot of her’s that we didn’t look through the shots and think at least once: how did she do that?!?

Charlotte and I are her biggest fans. And I couldn’t be more excited or proud to announce that Kim Harms has paid her dues, earned her stripes, and is now a lead portrait photographer with Trystan Photography!

All of Kim’s work is tremendous, but I think she especially shines in her newborn portraits and babies / kids portraits, which she’ll be specializing in for Trystan Photography. I’ve posted some of my favorites from her portfolio of newborn portraits below.

I just have one question: How does she get those babies to sleep like that!?! How!?! I couldn’t do that with my kids, ever.

So if you have an adorable newborn: call us!.. or know someone with a newborn: forward this onto them! You simply don’t see newborn portraits like these everyday!

This is a convoluted story line so try and stay with me here:

Once upon a time there was a bride named Julia. She was in love with a guy named Matt. Matt proposed and Julia filled her days and nights scouring the internet and wedding magazines for the perfect wedding photographer. Eventually she settled on us (we won!!!), and they went on their merry way…

Not quite. Julia also happened to mention after she booked that she was really into photography, I mean like, really into photography and she was hoping she could start assisting us on weddings.

Well if I had a dollar for everyone that has called to ask us if they could start assisting us at weddings, well… I’d have $30 bucks. (That wasn’t nearly as impressive sounding as I’d have hoped…)

Just because Julia was a client did not mean she didn’t have to prove herself just like everybody else. So we asked for her to put together a little portfolio presentation for us. Now I’m a pretty picky guy, and Charlotte is even worse when it comes to critiquing work ( you should hear her “critique” this blog post). But when we saw Julia’s portfolio, we were struck by something unique in her photography. We’d seen a lot of other portfolios from much more trained photographers who had asked if they could assist, but none of them had that certain “something”. It’s that nameless aspect of a photo that captures your imagination and/ or your heart. It can’t be taught, sometimes it can’t even be replicated, but it’s there nonetheless. And a lot of her work had “that”.

So we emphatically said “yes” and she was assisting us within weeks. She took our oldest camera ( a D70 from 2004) which was the actual camera we used to start Trystan Photography. You see, she hadn’t actually worked on a digital SLR, just an old film camera. But within a few weddings it was obvious she was a natural. Her images were great, and the more she shoots, the more stunning her images are. She is truly passionate about photography, and you can’t teach or buy that in an employee.

So that was last October, and in the meantime it’s become really obvious that we’re getting way too busy and we need some help with everything. S, again we turned to Julia. It turns out that not only is she passionate about photography, but she’s rather anal and detail oriented to boot! So now all of those little details (like putting orders in right, getting paid on time, filing taxes… blah, blah, blah…) are actually going to get done.

So, if you get a phone call from Julia and suddenly you find yourself wondering what the heck happened to Charlotte and Trig, don’t worry: we’re still here! We’re just focusing on photography. Because we’re photographers. It’s great!

So obviously, we took Julia and Matt’s engagement photos a while ago, and I’m only getting around to sharing them now. But what a great way for all of you to meet her!

Matt is probably the chillest man on earth. I mean, he’s marrying Julia: he has to be! (ha, ha, ha Julia! … I have the power of the blog, and you don’t!)

If you’re a Class of 2010 senior at Rampart High School (or if you know one) please make sure you check us out at the Class of 2010 Senior Fair this next Monday 5/4/2009.

Charlotte and Kim (our incredible Senior Portrait photographers) will be in attendance with amazing senior album samples and fun games and prizes!

Notice: If you’re looking for safe and really blasé senior portraits of the typical stale poses and hands on chins: DO NOT COME HERE! You won’t like your photographs.

However, if you love the idea of unique, highly stylized portraiture with the perfect blend of fine art and high fashion: Please come here! You’ll love your photos!

Parents: don’t be shy! Please stop and ask questions. We recognize that these senior class portraits aren’t like yours were back in the day, but I’m sure your son/daughter and Char and Kim will be able to explain why our style of senior photography is really, really, really a lot cooler than yours were! Sorry, but it’s true…

You can follow the link or click the banner to the left to check out Kim and Char’s high school senior portrait samples.