Trystan Photography: An Intimate Portrait.

Follow the link to see Beth and Bryan’s Pueblo wedding.

Beth and Bryan were married at an amazing private ceremony at her parents’ home high above the Arkansas River. Actually, I’m probably understating things a bit here: when I say “home”, I really mean “estate”. It was amazing. Huge private grounds, lush gardens and forests, amazing views… they should really consider letting other people rent the place for their weddings!

It was an elegant affair, with well appointed table settings in a very accommodating outdoor tent on the east lawn. The details were thoughtful, the settings perfectly picked, and yet there was such an atmosphere of joy and celebration, that the inherent formality of it all blended quite easily with the jubilant “party-time” energy that was bursting at the formal seams!

And talk about a couple in love! No shyness here, at all. They were very outgoing, affectionate, and their parents and family would follow us around at sunset whooping and cheering them on…

Thank you Beth and Bryan for the opportunity to capture your wedding day. It was beautiful, and a true pleasure to photograph!

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I know I say it over and over: a huge aspect of how Charlotte and I capture awesome photographs is directly dependent on how responsive, comfortable, and intimate our couples are. We can’t take happy, cool and funny photos of people who aren’t happy,cool and funny. One of the smartest things we ever did as a studio was we started to “pre-screen” our couples by essentially telling them how we like to work in a very informal, lighthearted way, and if they don’t like a fast paced, goofy, irreverent, joking atmosphere then we frankly aren’t the right photographers for them; and it’s worked wonders.

The caliber of clientèle we’ve booked over the last year or so has been a phenomenal crop of subjects. So cool, fun and relaxed that it’s a sheer pleasure to take their photographs.

Brittany and Rhead were no exception.

I met them in the lobby of the Brown Palace in Denver and we eased into shooting by doing a few test lighting shots around the hotel, talked about the reception set-up, walked around and shared ideas about the day of the wedding. Then we headed outside with the eventual goal of getting down to Coors Field. We stopped wherever we saw something cool or interesting to the eye and they were totally chill and fun about eveything. Brittany said, “… it feels more like we’re just hanging out and you happen to be taking photos…”

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

We didn’t make it to Coors Field, but we did find this amazing little sculpted office park garden where we got some really neat long shots with remote lighting, too. It was funny though, the security team for the office building came out and informed us we could take no photographs of the building itself. It seemed like a strange rule, it must have been a secret Dept. of Homeland Security building of something. It didn’t have a markings or signs… very interesting.

Thanks so much Brittany and Rhead. I can’t wait for your October wedding!