Trystan Photography: An Intimate Portrait.

Please click the photo above or follow the link to view our favorite photos from Erika and Taylor’s wedding at Hillside Gardens and The Warehouse Restaurant.

Talk about some photo All-Stars!

We knew very early on, pretty much right after I met with Erika and Taylor, that they were going to be pretty darn fun to photograph.

…and then Char did their engagement session. Holy cow.

…and then Erika did her boudoir session with Char (which a surprising number of brides are adding to their packages for their loving and deserving future husbands!). ¡Ay Dios mio!

Finally, after all the great photos they’d given us, we came to their wedding day. Unfortunately, the weather was cloudy and really unseasonably cold. However, like all of our clients this year who have faced “less than ideal” weather on their big day, Erika and Taylor were shining examples of how to put on a good attitude and rock the photos!

When we photograph couples, we try and get them to just be themselves. Laugh, flirt, make-out, have fun: if I have to ask them to stop “or else I’m getting a hose” then we’re having a great day.

Thank you Erika and Taylor for being so enthusiastic about everything you did with Trystan Photography. We had so much fun with you two. We hope you did, too!

Oh this little man was a dream, he did SO incredibly well for me! I love me some sleepy babies!

Please click the photo above or follow the link to view our favorite photos from Kevin and Taylor’s perfect wedding at Copper Mountain.

From Alaska with love.

So, Taylor and Kevin live in Alaska. But they were married in Colorado. Taylor’s sister lives in Colorado, but she got married in Alaska. Make sense?

Therefore, Taylor needed a little help coordinating all of this from the North, so her sister helped find us down here in Colorado. Great team effort, ladies (if I do say so myself)!

Taylor and Kevin are warm and laid back, and they planned a not-too-small and still intimate wedding at gorgeous Copper Mountain. One of the neatest things to experience in Colorado is the ghost-town-quality of a high country ski resort mid-summer. It is surreal to be some of the only people at the whole mountain. And while that emptiness might be a little disconcerting, an empty Copper means we’re not fighting to get people-less shots in all of those stunning backgrounds.

Taylor and Kevin had an easy love. They were comfortable with each other, which translated in to an ease in front of the camera. The weather was perfect. The wedding was perfect.

Thank you, you two, for letting Char and I capture your amazing day!

Click the photo or follow the link to view Crystal and Lucas’ perfect wedding at The USAFA Cadet Chapel and Officer’s Club.

What a stunning place to photograph a wedding! The Cadet Chapel at the Air Force Academy is simply amazing. With it’s kaleidoscope of colors shimmering in from the modern architecture, it’s awe inspiring grand scale, and it’s quiet and claming atmosphere, it is one of the most unique cermony venues in all of Colorado (if not the US)! And that’s the sad part about it: not everyone can use it. Chapel weddings are reserved for the hard-working men and women of our military, and if you haven’t made that commitment, that sacrafice to serve… tough nuts. You can’t use it.

Which is fine, becuase the military deserves little perks like that. So it’s not that often we find ourselves at the Chapel, but what a treat it is when we do!

Crytal and Lucas’ wedding was stellar. Crystal and Lucas were stunning together. They are the proto-typical All-American couple. Perfectly cute together, and really into each other. Crystal and Lucas’ smiles seemed to add even more light and color to the Chapel. In fact, I’ve never seen it so bright and colorful.

Their day went off perfectly with just the right amount of joy, love, tears and laughter. Except for their limo. It didn’t show for their “grand exit” at the end. I have no idea if it ever came. But they just pulled up dad’s car, turned up the wattage on their smiles, and everyone gave them a really great send-off, limo or not.

Thank you, Crystal and Lucas for choosing Trystan Photography to document your special day.  It was a real pleasure and an honor!

When I was back home in Des Moines this past May, I photographed a dear friends, brothers family.  The cool thing was that I got to photograph them at Greenwood Park, which was my old stomping grounds in High School. Everything is so lush and green in Iowa, and that is truly one of the things I miss most. Not the mounds of snow it produces in the winter, along with bitter cold. Not the humidity, along with swarms of mosquitoes during the summer. Just the gorgeous lush, saturated colors of green in the summer.  And I will always miss my family and friends, of course…lol!

Thank you Shawn, Stacy and Jacob for letting me capture your beautiful family, in a beautiful area that has so many memories to me!

So, I’m still playing “blogging-catch-up”. Actually, we just shot Lisa and Casey’s wedding last weekend (the really hot one I was whining about on Facebook Saturday night): just an idea of how hard it is for me to keep up on this blogging this year!

I loved taking their engagement photos, and I loved their wedding even more. So let me just say, if you like their engagement session, oh baby, just wait until you see their wedding photos! (Hot or cold, that day would have always been awesome!)

Click the photo above, or follow the link to view our favorite photographs from Mackenzie and Derek’s amazing wedding at Arrowhead Golf Course.

Yet another Spring wedding where Colorado decided to be a little difficult. In fact, the entire start of the 2010 wedding season was terrible, in terms of cold weather. Fortunately, Mackenzie and Derek’s wedding got sunshine, at least. You can’t tell from the photos (one of the many wonderful advantages of still photography), but the entire day was on the verge of being really cold.

In fact, the couple photos after the ceremony were downright freezing. But other than a little rosy color on the cheeks and nose that had to be retouched, it looks like a beautiful summer evening.

And did Mackenzie complain? Nope. I would venture to say, she and Derek were “quite warm”. They are one of those couples (like we should all try to be) who are really, really, REALLY, into each other and have no problem with PDA. I don’t want to get into too much detail here, but I knew from their engagement session that this was going to be HOT.

But their PDA isn’t that uncomfortable “get-a-room” kind, but rather that joyous “I’m-so-happy-I’ve-found-you-and-I’m-scared-if-I-let-you-go-I-might-wake-up-from-this-amazing-dream” kind of PDA. It’s inspiring and it made my heartache for Charlotte (my wife, who I work with, luckily), so I hugged her a lot that night.

Might I also point out, that Mackenzie  happens to have the official title of “Bride Most on Top of Her Game… Ever”. She booked us 2 years ago. Talk about planning ahead! And in the course of how we’ve grown over the last two years, our prices have increased rather tremendously, so she also saved herself quite a chunk of change booking that far ahead (hint, hint, wink, wink potential 2012 and 2013 brides…)

Thank you, Mack and Derek. Your wedding has been a long time coming, and it was pure joy to capture this day for you two. Thank you for giving us that honor and responsibility!

Click the photo or follow the link to view our favorite photos from Jocelyn and Chase’s stunning Palazzo Verdi wedding.

*The following video is an update from the amazing videographers at CueMotion Wedding Cinematography, who we worked with for Jocelyn and Chase’s wedding. They are amazing, a while they might be based in Lincoln, NE we’ve managed to work with them on a number of weddings in Colorado! We love working with them and highly recommend them. They are totally worth the travel fee! http://www.cuemotion.com

So here we are in April. Maybe, just maybe, Colorado will start playing nice in terms of weather? Nope. The day before this wedding, which was a HUGE wedding (all day unlimited photography, 300+ guests, at Palazzo Verdi…) I-25 was SHUT DOWN. I-25 is rarely shut down. The snow was coming in “sideways-like”. So, needless to say, we were quite nervous about this one!

The day of we left around 7 am, and things weren’t looking so hot. Monument and Castle Rock heading north were a nightmare. Snow was still coming in sideways. It was bitter cold, with gusts of wind that chilled your very soul. Once we got to Palazzo Verdi, things were better in the sense that Denver had no snow, but it had simply become a frozen, stinging rain with wind. Not good.

The second we got inside for the rehearsal, everything looked a lot brighter, regardless of what the weather was doing because Jocelyn and Chase were on cloud nine!

I don’t mean to beat a dead horse on this topic, but it really it paramount: the attitudes of our clients on the day of their weddings have been nothing short of inspiring. Nothing was gonna keep this wedding from being an absolute joy for Jocelyn and Chase.

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Kim Harms is a rock. She might just be the most patient and resilient person in the world. She has demonstrated her ability to wait and soothe newborn babies to sweet slumber to she can get those amazing sleeping baby portraits of hers.

Now she has shown she has more willpower in her little finger than most of us have in our whole body by releasing her showcase of birth documentary photos. Kim’s birth photojournalism might just be the most amazing, moving, and priceless photography in the world. Why? a) It’s a once in a lifetime event. b) It’s wrought with emotion and drama, c) her work is extraordinary. Her entire life in on hold in the weeks around the due date (because all parents know that them babies don’t always cooperate on schedule!), and once she gets that call, she is there at the hospital until that baby is out!

But, for once, I’m not gonna talk anymore about it, because her slide-shows are stunning. I will let them speak for themselves. You can view her showcase here.

Please share this with everyone you know who is pregnant, even if it’s just to share the emotion of it!

What in the world are “The Trystan Way” and “The Petite”?

It’s a revolutionary way to think about fine art photography. They are two portrait programs optimized for the two most pressing demands we’ve seen from our wonderful clientele over the last 6 years:

a) “The Trystan Way” is a guided, hands-on approach to the creation of custom artwork for your home and office.

b)”The Petite” is a fast, affordable, and easy way to get portraits to share online and access to the most popular sizes of standard prints for friends and family.

“The Trystan Way” is a premium service, entirely based around custom quotes for the commissioning of completely unique display art  in the home or office. “The Trysan Way” is the pinnacle of fine art photography. We’ll help you from start to finish, from planning to installing the final piece on the wall.

In this age of digital photography, many aspects of the art and power of photography are becoming lost to more imminent needs such as ease of sharing and access to the digital files. While we will not deny that it is a wonderful thing to share these amazing moments and photos with family and friends all over the world, we feel it is imperative that our clientele still have an option to take advantage of one of the most rewarding and satisfying experiences of fine art photography: the creation of custom art that surpasses mere portraiture and becomes a priceless heirloom for generations to come!

While this service does mean you’ll need to make a more meaningful investment than “The Petite”, it provides each client with expert guided care along every step of the process of creating stunning artwork for the home.

No concept is too aggressive. Dream big and beautiful and become part of “The Trystan Way”. Please visit our pricing page or call us at 719.359.5520 for more details on the “Trystan Way”.

“The Petite” is the best of both worlds: the finest photography, but in a more compact and timely form.” The Petite” is perfect for those who know they won’t want wall portraits, and are interested in standard sizes (from wallets to 8×10′s) or digital files. It includes a Mini-session, online proofing and ordering for two weeks. It’s fast, easy, and (other than the session), done completely from the comfort of your own home!