Trystan Photography: An Intimate Portrait.

January 2010. You’d think a winter wedding in Colorado would be pretty darn cold…

Nope. Sunny, upper 50′s, and quite lovely actually. Katrina and Peter had the perfect day for a small intimate wedding at the Chief Hosa Lodge and Red Rocks.

We have joked with some of our Spring-time weddings (which have been bitter-cold and windy at times) that if they wanted nice weather for a wedding, they should have booked mid-winter.

What a crazy state Colorado is. Never the same and unpredictable, but always stunning to shoot photographs in.

Our phones here at Trystan Photography are currently on the fritz. We are working to get this resolved, but it could be another 24 hours. Please call 719-930-4185 (charlotte) in the meantime, or email always works as well! So sorry for the inconvenience, and especially if you have been trying to get through to us!

I had some of the most precious newborns in the month of January! What a wonderful way to start off the new year. A couple of them were amazing sleepers, let me mold and pose them anyway I wanted… then a couple were a little more tough. Always sleeping with one eye open, watching me and refusing to sleep… luckily, with patience, a warm house and a full tummy they all finally succomed to their need for sleep and passed out! That’s when the real fun begins.

A lot of parents think they want their newborn to be awake for pictures… when in reality newborns photograph best when they are in that deep deep sleep where they can be moved without waking for a single second. Typically, if the baby is awake when I get there I’ll start the session and try to get a few shots of their bright eyes, but after a few of those I always recommend nursing/feeding the baby to top them off and get them to go to sleep. Sleepy newborns are much easier to work with than wide awake ones!

A couple of weeks ago Kim Harms and I had the opportunity to photograph the most adorable girls clothing, created by the very talented Alana Smith of Missie Moosie.  The really fun part was that we got to incorporate our daughters. Here is a little slide show of some of the shots we got. Aren’t the clothes absolutely the cutest little girls clothes ever?  The particular line that we shot was the Urban Angel line, lots of pink, Ella loved it!  And there are so many more fun, bright, trendy patterns to choose from. You must check out the website  http://missiemoosie.com/. If you love little girls clothes as much as I do, you will adore these clothes. Right now, through March 10th, Alana is offering my clients who book a session with me during this time, 10% off your entire Missie Moosie order! How fantastic?  Just let me know if you want to take advantage of this offer and I’ll give you the details!

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

One of my best friends, Gaby, just delivered her third daughter, McKenna. She picked a great day to be born… my birthday! So McKenna’s daddy came up with the nickname of KimKenna…. since we will forever share the same birthday. I thought it was cleaver and pretty cute! Especially since I was there photographing her grand entrance into the world!

You’ll be seeing her on the blog as she grows through the first year, and I am so excited… she is just the cutest and most precious little girl. And look at all that hair! You’ve also seen her two older sisters on the blog before… so keep your eye out for their first session together!

Gaby made a great decision to have me photograph McKenna before she was even a week old. Newborns are the easiest to photograph in the first week of life… they hardly, if ever!, wake up… and let me mold them and move them whatever way I want. Its a dream really! They still have the scrunchy look and are just so easy to handle. I typically say before they are 2 weeks old is best, but the first week is ideal!!

It’s not often I sit a baby down to photograph them and they are smiley and happy from the start! But I sure do love when that happens! I can always depend on Elena smiling for me, she’s got to be one of the happiest (and cutest!) babies I’ve photographed. Sure makes my life a lot easier!

You may remember Kendahl from her newborn session. She sure has grown since then!

She’s gained so much chub its beyond adorable… love baby rolls! And when else are rolls cute on a girl in life?!

Please click the photo or follow the link to view Katy and Aaron’s spectacular wedding at Arrowhead Golf Club in Littleton, CO.

Katy and Aaron are a romance long in the making. Even though they met young and had a long distance relationship in college, their love remained strong and they found themselves in the middle of a perfect sunset ceremony in June.

It’s really nice to see such hard work and loyalty pay off for couples: for both their relationship and their wedding! Although we had a flower issue for the guys, and the clouds were threatening all day, Katy and Aaron kept their eyes on the prize and simply enjoyed, no, were enthralled with each other.

There was also an uninvited wedding guest who ran across the fairway in front of the ceremony spot, much to many guests delight and my wife Charlotte’s absolute terror: a big ol’ bear decided to pay us a little visit. She didn’t interrupt things anymore during the ceremony, but afterwards she was definitely a factor in our photography. She decided to hunker down in the hillside 20 yards from the main spot we’re allowed access to at Arrowhead. So imagine me randomly yelling “hey bear!” and a small army of golf course personnel forming a ragtag human shield from any possible bear encounter from behind us. It was interesting to say the least!

The best part of the day was the photographic blessings Mother Nature bestowed upon us. The skies were afire, and so dramatic. It was a pleasure to capture these images for Katy and Aaron in such a breathtaking setting!

Thanks you two for choosing us as your wedding photographers. Your wedding was one for the ages and it was an honor to have this responsibility.

Duane was all smiles! Such a fun and spunky little guy… and adorable!
He just turned 18 months old and what a fun age! Its a workout… but fun!