Own All of Your Digital Files!

The best way to ensure the safe-keeping of your precious photographs is to own all of the digital files, which are included in our “All-Digital Session”.

It’s Never Too Late*!

You can still take advantage of the “All-Digital Package”. Simply pay the difference between your Trraditional session fee and the $700 session fee of the “All-Digital Session”. For example: if you paid $150 for your session, then you would need to pay only $550** towards all of your digital files from that session! ($700-$150=$550).

*Provided that we still have your files. We probably do, though… just have to look…
**Subsequent print orders cannot not apply towards the upgrade price, only the original session fee.

50% OFF prints on all print orders*** after upgrade!

That’s right: your cost for prints is cut in half as an added benefit of upgrading to the “All-Digital Session”. We’ll relaunch your portrait gallery (if expired) with the discount applied to all products!

***New print orders only. Discount cannot apply to print orders placed before upgrade to “All-Digital Session”.

Nathan is a funny guy, which is fantastic because i normally try to make things light and fun by telling awful jokes. He’s actually quite humorous.

All this made Jillian simply beam, which I think awesome because her smile is brilliant.

The day of our 1st scheduled session, we got snowed out by 6 inches of snow. This was attempt #2. And what luck! not only was it a very pleasant November day, but we actually found some Autumn leaves left on the trees that the snowstorm hadn’t swept away!

I am still in an Autumn frame-0f-mind, and I was delighted to find one last hint of Fall in this hidden little valley below the main park. I am, in no way shape or form, ready for winter yet…

You two are adorable together. Thank you for making my job so easy!

We have a few new cards this year, and some of the same ones from last year, because I love so many of them still.

We offer 5×7 postcards, 5×5 postcards, and 5×5 tri-folds.  All cards come with white envelopes and take around 2 weeks to print and ship. Please get in touch with Charlotte at Trystan Photography 719-359-5520 to place your orders.
There are 3 different pages of cards on this blog post, just FYI. Here are the samples…

These are the 5×7 post card with front and back designs- $85 for 25 cards

More cards continued on next page…

I LOVE photographing in Autumn. However, this day almost didn’t happen.

The storm clouds were threatening, and we weren’t getting any play from the late-afternoon sunshine… but… like I always say, “There’s always a silver lining to all photo scenarios”, and ours was the brilliant sky mother nature decided to share with us as the last beams of light were fading in the sky.

Amazing. What a privilege to photograph Rebekkah and Gabe, to capture such honest adoration and love in such a majestic setting.

Have I ever mentioned… I love my job?

I have a rather rude set of questions for the engaged couples of the internet:

Do you have fun with your fiance?

You should.

If not, why are you getting married?

A tough question, I know, but I have so much fun with our clients, and I love the photographs so much, I can’t help but wonder… why would you waste your time with someone you don’t adore being around?

I mean look at how cute Katie and Bryce are together! Why? Because they have FUN with each other. They like to laugh. Nothing more complicated than that.

No pretending. No “trying” to be “cool”. Just love, and smiles, and laughter.

Frankly, that’s what all of our couples are like, because that’s the kind of photographers we are: fun.

So if you really like being around your fiance, kudos to you! … and we’d really like to chat about your wedding plans (if we’re available)…

Like the prodigal sister returning home, our very talented and popular Kim Harms is back with Trystan Photography after a year of spreading her wings under her own studio brand. Kim had been with us for years before she announced she was striking out on her own.

We were so proud of her. She’s a very talented photographer, and she deserved the chance!

Turns out she loves taking photos, not running a business. That’s very understandable. It’s not for everyone.

That’s quite all-right, I don’t mind running a business and Char and I love having her back. She is an amazing person, and an amazing photographer.

Kim’s absolute favorite photo subject are those adorable newborn babies! So, if you’re having a child soon, or if you know someone who is, share this link with them and help Kim have a great Summer Welcome back with Trystan Photography.

Kim will also be photographing families and seniors for Trystan Photography as well. I’ll be updating those galleries soon!

Please help us get the word out by sharing this post on Facebook or Twitter:

Long term clients.

I love our long term clients. Jaclyn’s been coming to Trystan Photography for portraits for years.

And now she and Eddie are getting married in Telluride this summer. And she turned to us.

I love it. It’s such an awesome responsibility to be charged with documenting a client’s life like this.

Thank you, Jaclyn. Eddie thank you for agreeing with her! We are so honored.

So, I’m slaving away at the computer, as usual, and I get this e-mail from a potential wedding client.

“Are you Tycen’s brother?”

I stared. Then I answered, “Yes… Tycen is my brother.”

“Oh, man, that’s cool,” he said, “I know Ty from college, we were on the track team together our in California.”

“Did you find us through Ty?” I asked, confused.

“Nope. Just found you by chance. Guess it’s just one of those things…”

Some people really like that “small-world feeling”.

I, on the other hand… do not. When all the stars align and coincidences don’t feel like coincidences anymore it kinda wigs me out.

It’s cool, though. I really like thinking how out of all the photographers out there, from another state David and Logan chose us, and I happen to be related to one of his buddies from college.

Small world.

Turns out I can tell now why David and Ty were close in college: he and Logan are awesome.

Kris and Jay were married last weekend, so it’s better late than never on posting my favorite photos from their engagement session at The Garden of the Gods.

I knew from their engagement session that Kris and Jay were the ideal wedding clients for Trystan Photography. So fun, so naturally in love, they were comfortable and real for my camera. Their wedding was a blast, so all suspicions confirmed: they are terrific people.

I’ll have Kris and Jay’s wedding photos from Holy Rosary Chapel and The Flying Horse Club in a month and a half, or so.

We get this! We love the world of digital: sharing on Facebook, ease of use, inexpensive printing through any of the numerous consumer sites and labs out there…

… but that’s the dark-side. Chances are, because consumer labs are so inexpensive, you won’t get the kind of quality print you will get through a professional lab, i.e. Trystan Photography’s lab. But to get that quality, you have to pay the higher prices (in many cases, quite a lot higher!).

But that’s a choice each of our clients have to make. We try to make the pros and cons clear to our clients, and we do try and steer people away from a “purely digital” purchase, however, that is the momentum in our industry, and it’s what clients want today! We don’t fault anyone for wanting the digital files, but there is always a chance for dissappointment if printed elsewhere.

One of our awesome long-time clients just wrote me this morning with this tale of consumer lab woe:

“I do regret having someone else (I think it was Snapfish) print my favorite photo (file) from their session with you, even though I bought the rights to it…But it was not nearly as good quality printing as the other photos I got from you a la carte.  I want you to keep our files, as I will likely want to order a high quality print of that pic from you in the future.  If you’d please just not delete it, I hope I can buy it later on.  Feel free to post my comments on your website about how your print quality is superior.  THANKS.  – Linda”

Thanks, Linda, for your praise of our print quality. However, I do think the trend is moving away from high quality prints. It’s a paradigm shift for photography, and we just need to figure out how we’re going to adapt!

I’m thinking we’re going to make portraits a one-time (high$) flat-fee and include all the finished digital files, combined with a monumental lowering of the print prices through our lab. That way everybody wins: we make profit and the our amazing clients can still have files and affordable pro-quality prints? Thoughts?

Anyone else have a tale of “printing digital files” woe?

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!

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

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!)

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!

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!

 

 

Amber and Pete are a blast. We are so blessed to have only clients that like to laugh, have fun, and truly love each other. It makes photography so much fun and easy. It may have been a little chilly that day, but they made it HOT and fun.

You’ll see Amber and Pete’s wedding photos later this year after we shoot their wedding at The Cheyenne Lodge at the Broadmoor.

I have no good excuses other than this year has been “busy-nuts”: I am a terrible blogger.

Case in point: here’s an awesome engagement session from… this winter. Jeez. That’s sad. Nothin’ like blogging about a session 4 months later!

Anyway, Lisa and Chris are getting married at The Pinery in September, and they were awesome to photograph. After a little nerves, they instantly got “hot” and were loving and fun from then on.

You two were perfect, and your photos capture two people, completely in love with each other. Thank you for making it easy to shoot, and for waiting this long to get your spotlight on the blog!

Miss Leah was a joy to photograph! And incredibly sweet… I love watching first time parents with their new baby. The love and amazement in their eyes is indescribable and these lucky parents were no exception.  So in love with their new baby girl… and who can blame them, she’s beautiful!