I’ve been taking Hayden’s pictures since he was about 3 months old and I feel like he’s growing up as fast as my own children. I’m thinking I’ll probably be taking his Senior portraits like tomorrow!
He’s always been one of the easiest, happiest babies to take photos of and even now that he’s walking.
It’s so neat to be able to watch so many children out there grow up and capture those moments at each different age in their lives. I really do have one of the best jobs!
Susan is graduating from college this month and she wanted to take some pictures to commemorate this time in her life. I took her sister Angie’s senior portraits last year and I also took pictures of her Dad Mike and his wife Ginger a few months ago. They are such a photogenic family.
Susan has a natural modeling ability and I really think she should try and pursue something in this field. She thinks she’s too short, but her looks are stunning and I think that can override the short thing. I’m calling Tyra!
Good luck with all you do Susan!
I loved Allison and Joe’s wedding! What a fun loving, affectionate couple, with great friends and family. They were the kind of couple that you could see the love they felt in the way they looked at each other that day, and capturing that is an honor (plus it makes for great photographs).
Additionally, we got to go play! The limo made a pit-stop at a playground and we just went nuts for a couple of minutes (it was pretty quick because it was getting really cold out). It is such a blessing as a photographer to get a couple willing to celebrate and have fun for their photographs. Allison and Joe had such an earnest sense of celebration and play that it wasn’t work at all to photograph their wedding.
Thank you so much you two! Best of luck, and I can’t wait to get your album pics from you! (I’ll show the album when I’m finished, too… stay tuned.)
Amy and Daniel are getting married this summer and it will surely be a fabulous affair. I love engagement sessions because it’s the perfect time to really get to know your couple before you photograph them on thier big day. Amy and Daniel were really funny with each other. Daniel seems to be such a kid at heart and Amy is so patient with him. Well, for as long as she can stand it!
I love it when my couples goof around with each other. These guys seem like they have such a great time together and it truely reflects in the photographs. I’m so excited to photograph them on their wedding day!
I took Brooke and Randy’s Engagement pictures several weeks ago. It started out to be a nice day, but the weather took a turn for the worst the second we got to The Garden of the Gods.
I had to put Brooke’s crazy wind blowing hair series at the end of the slideshow. Randy was trying so hard to help keep her hair under control, but it was pretty pointless. We called it a wrap, which was fine because I tend to want to shoot forever when I have a really fun couple. Then I get home and have over 500+ images to process.
Their wedding is definitely going to be one for the books. They’re just a blast to hang out with and apparently the families are just as wild and crazy fun. I Can’t wait!
Sometimes you get a day that’s perfect.
Sometimes the weather is warm but not hot (you do not want to see me sweat).
Sometimes the Colorado skies are extraordinarily beautiful.
Sometimes you can feel just how much your clients are really in love.
These were just a few of the things that made Nadja and Joe’s Mystic Meadows wedding really special for us.
We shoot so many weddings at the Air Force Academy Chapel, it’s nearly impossible each year to select only one to show as our sample from that venue. But for ‘08 we finally narrowed it down to Celine and Steve’s wedding. Overall it was a dream wedding: nobody was late, the ceremony didn’t run long (which can be a really big deal at the chapel because you only get two hours, period, and once your time is up you’re out of there!), etc.
The chapel can be very colorful and bright if you know how to photograph it. I don’t understand why some photographers (and maybe their clients) prefer the aluminum interior to look so stark, cold and gray (kind of like the Death Star), when the chapel never looks that way in real life. Even on cloudy days, we can still capture the celebratory colors streaming down from the long stained glass windows. I very much prefer it that way. A wedding is happy celebration (hopefully), and to me color says ,”Celebrate”! (You should imagine me throwing my arms flamboyantly in the air and shouting like Rip Taylor.)
We also got a break in the fact that once our time was up in the chapel, the sun was setting outside for our couple shots, and nothing looks better for the shots we call the “romantics” than makin’ out in the beautiful Colorado sunset!
They continued on to the Academy’s Officer’s Club for their reception, where they had some very emotional and fun dances. I don’t know if I’m just a huge sucker for dances, but I seem to love almost every dance I photograph. It’s such a personal moment between two people, and you can capture some amazing shots during a couple’s dance, or the dances with the mom or dad. I love when we get to the dances. The sad thing is Char and I almost never dance ourselves due to the 2 year old and 1 year old that are usually right under-foot, or literally hanging off of us during our days.
Erica and Renzo had a lovely wedding at Sunrise Methodist Church with a reception at the Air Force Academy Officer’s Club. It was a cold day but not uncomfortable and Sunrise Church has such a lovely modern sanctuary, I thought it really photographed well.
At the reception, their emcee extraordinaire Randy Rodriguez performed wonderful renditions of Frank and Tony (Sinatra and Bennett for those of you who don’t know who Frank and Tony are) for the lovely couple and their guests while they dined. If you like a classy throwback to the good old days of ol’ blue eyes, then Randy is a sure thing for your wedding. He not only croons with the best of them, but he’s a true pro when it comes to coordinating the party, and he does have a man on the turntables for when the party really kicks up!
My favorite part of the evening came when the dances began. The couple had a sweet dance. It seemed as if no one else was around and they were completely lost in each other.
But then Erica’s parents hit the floor. Holy Moley! They could dance! That got the party going, everyone was cheering, even I was cheering (wishing I could dance like that with Charlotte).
