Another shoot, another week of totally bizarr-o mixed weather! Luckily for us, I knew the gorgeous evening light would more than make up for some drenched/muddy/iced pant legs! You know you’re in Colorado where one minute you’re standing in a foot of snow, but if you take five steps you’ll be in two inches of mud!
It’s a tough call, but I think this one might be my favorite!
So cute!
I love a good close-up!
Ellie and I headed off to Las Vegas last week for the annual WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) event. This was my second year attending, and it is such a highlight of my year. Not just for the room service and housekeeping, not just for the classes and amazing speakers and inspiration, but also because it’s an opportunity to see some of my closest friends. Thanks to the beauty of the internet, we talk to each other every day, have known each other for years, and they are the people I go to when I need advice–both business and personal…but we rarely get to see each other because we’re spread all over the country!
This year only three from our group made the trip, but we had a blast. Alison and I roomed together again this year (along with my friend Jamie–they were both very brave to be roommates with a 5 week old), and we continued what’s become tradition of doing one portrait shoot while there and then catching some headshots of each other. (We need to break the tradition of doing it last minute on our last day next year, though!)
Here’s Alison in action during our portrait shoot (my non-behind-the-scenes pics from the shoot coming later this week!):
Photographers are crazy. New white sweater? Middle of the street? No problem.
My favorite from our quick headshot session.
Bernadette and Haydn christened our new studio in Black Forest last month and the weather couldn’t have been more perfect for their Christmas card pics! Pics from their “trash the dress shoot” that day (brrr!) to come in the next few weeks!
Kevin and Katie chose Palmer Park for their portrait shoot. We lucked out on the weather–managing to dodge a few rain clouds that day! I love that we caught spring’s slow arrival with the green buds in the background!
Katie will be leaving for Afghanistan shortly. We wish her health and safety during her deployment!
These pictures seemed like the perfect opportunity to play around with some new post processing techniques..
This next one is my favorite:
One of the things I was looking forward to most during my trip back to Seattle was meeting my friend Rachel in Skagit Valley to visit the Tulip Festival. Seattle has had a brutal spring, so we were about a week early for the tulips. We tried not to cry over it too much, though, instead enjoying the fields of daffodils that Rachel and Will were dressed perfectly for!
Rachel and I have been friends for five years, and this is only the third time we’ve gotten together! But, thanks to technology, that doesn’t matter at all! Between instant messaging, message boards, and email it’s almost like she’s lived next door this whole time (instead of Canada).
Don’t you want her to be your friend, too?
Rachel brought her youngest baby with her (who was an incredible trooper and put up with our late night chatting [they eventually kicked us out of the restaurant] and marathon shopping like no other baby could). He also happens to be crazy cute!
Rachel is a wonderful momma. I go to her for advice/commiseration all the time!
You can always tell a bad-arse photographer by her broken-arse lens:
I love these two shots because it’s totally universal. On the left we have the face that all photographers ACTUALLY make while looking at their camera LCD. It’s a thinking face. On the right we have the face that photographers make when they’re told “hey–smile–this is gonna be a cute shot.”
This is one of my favorite shots of the day–proof that the outting had very little to do with the little people we brought along:
But since he was so cute in his yellow rain slicker, I got a few shots of Will. This one is SO Will. He is what grandmothers euphamistically call “busy” and mothers call “the reason every drink I have after 1pm is spiked.”
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