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engagement portrait photographer | colorado springs | jennifer and jason

November 17, 2008 – 12:07 pm

I had the pleasure of photographing Jennifer and Jason this weekend in Manitou Springs and Garden of the Gods.  I always get the nicest clients!  I kept thinking “I wish Nic was here because he would love these guys!”  (Note for the behind the scenes shots fans–we are now booking the majority of our engagement shoots with just one photographer, so there won’t be too many behind the scenes shots from engagement shoots.)

We managed to catch more fall leaves!

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Bringing on the romance…

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I give massive credit to Jennifer and Jason for pulling off this shot!  They had a pretty big audience of on-lookers cheering them on!

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I had to head back to that spot where Nic photographed my behind the scenes photo last week…

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This one is my favorite!

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I love this one in vertical and horizontal.  They are just so cute and in love!

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Thanks for a wonderful shoot!  We hope you have a wonderful wedding!

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engagement portrait photographers | colorado springs | jesse and veronica

November 13, 2008 – 6:11 pm

We met Jesse and Veronica last weekend in Manitou Springs for their engagement portrait shoot.  We had the best time with them and I think Nic and I came close to saying “forget the pictures–let’s just sit here and chat” (except people don’t like that very much).  ;)

I think I can safely say that this was our last shoot with fall leaves!  (Watch me be wrong, but we’ve had a fantastically wonderful autumn this year!)

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We had some fun with the leaves…

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Jesse and Veronica are such a fun couple to spend an afternoon with!

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And they’re pretty darn cute!

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No visit to Garden of the Gods can be complete without a few red rocks pictures…

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Thanks for a wonderful afternoon, Jesse and Veronica!  We can’t wait for the wedding!

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A little behind the scenes action.  Shots like this one were a big motivator in our desire to test out the D3.  Our Canons would really struggle with focus in a situation like this, but the Nikon nailed it in one try.

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Looking fabulous in black and gold… ;)  (And I am totally hitting up this spot for our shoot this weekend–that background looks so cool!)

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engagement portrait photographer | kendra and chris | manitou springs

November 5, 2008 – 12:04 am

I spent today trying not to obsessively stalk cnn.com.  In trying not to hit “refresh” every 3 seconds I busied myself with editing!

Which brings me to today’s sneak peek for Kendra and Chris, whom we met in Manitou Springs this weekend for their engagement shoot.  They are a very fun and trusting couple…when I told them to lay down in the leaves not 30 seconds after they got out of the car, they didn’t blink an eye!  This fall I keep thinking “okay–THIS is the last shoot that we get to enjoy the fall colors” but then I keep getting surprised!  Here it is November, and we still had great leaves!

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(Above version was my view.  Here’s Nic’s…)

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You wouldn’t know it, but Kendra was totally nervous during this shot!  She said her cheek was shaking!

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Kendra is so pretty!

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We really lucked out with the leaves!

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Time for a coffee break!

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I never get tired of this cafe.  There are so many ways to use it!

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Then it was over to Garden of the Gods for a few more shots.

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This next one was inspired by one of Will’s favorite books of the moment: The Day the Babies Crawled Away. (Did you spot the moon?)

Kendra and Chris were amazingly patient and put up with our hope that we could wait about 20 minutes for the sunset.  Sunsets are tricky because you can never quite predict how colorful they will be!  (For the photographers out there: this one was shot using two flashes–the fill mounted on Nic’s camera, and the key held by me off to the left–to create some dramatic light.)

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Behind the scenes…this was (most likely) my last blast with my trusty Canon 5d camera body.  My new Nikon camera arrives tomorrow, and Nic will inherit my 5d while we decide whether or not to totally jump off the Canon ship.

To commemorate the good times, here I am with my camera and my thinking face.  (I need to work on my thinking face.  It looks a lot like my “someone just ate the last cookie and it wasn’t me” scowl.)

How cute is this guy?!

And a sweet action shot of Nic rolling around in the leaves…

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colorado springs engagement portrait photographers | garden of the gods | lisa and dave

October 5, 2008 – 1:03 pm

Lisa and Dave had originally planned to have their engagement shoot at Rampart Reservoir, but rain forced us to change our plans and we met at Garden of the Gods, instead.  We are so grateful that they were flexible and ran around with us as we tried to beat the rain!

We caught some fall colors, which is always fairly tricky to time or predict!

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If you go to Garden of the Gods for pictures, it’s criminal not to visit this spot.

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We also visited High Point at the park, and it was cute, because it was where Dave had intended to propose to Lisa!  (It was Easter, though, and if you remember it was snowing and freezing cold, and Lisa didn’t want to get out of the car.  [I remember that day because after visiting family, we went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner.  Texas Roadhouse is my favorite place in the world, so any time I eat dinner there, the date and weather and what I was wearing are burned into my brain forever.])

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The top of Pikes Peak had a cloud around it, but it got a dusting of snow from the weather system that kept us out of Rampart Reservoir!

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I love this series of pictures!

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(This next shot is a great example of how changing your angle can totally change the background.  I was standing in the same spot for both the previous photos and this next one…but in this one, I stood up from my crouch.)

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My photographer friends are always reminding me that I am SO LUCKY to live and photograph where we do.  (Something I try to remember when I want to cry about the lack of beach photo opportunities!)  A behind the scenes shot like this illustrates it nicely…

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When we visited High Point, we were treated to this guy and his digiridoo.  (It was pretty surreal.)

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colorado springs engagement portrait photographer | mindy and brett

August 30, 2008 – 10:41 am

Mindy is cursed when it comes to Colorado Springs weather.  She told me that whenever she comes to visit, it always rains or snows.  I didn’t really believe her…Colorado Springs gets barely any rain!

Except that it rained on her first Saturday engagement shoot appointment.  So we rescheduled to Sunday…and it rained.

So we rescheduled for this weekend, and everything looked good.  10% chance of rain.  That’s nothin!  We set off from our house to gorgeous blue skies…but then as we approached Manitou, the skies opened up.  (I’m bringin’ cute umbrellas to Mindy’s wedding!!)

We stuck it out, shooting under trees and then ducked into a cafe to dry off…

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We made our own sunlight light with a video light and our trusty reflector:

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Aren’t they cute?!!

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And then we were rewarded.  It took a good hour, but the sun finally popped out, and with it, we had a rainbow:

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And backlit rain:

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And if you are willing to wait out a storm, you are usually rewarded with some gorgeous light!

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We drove to Garden of the Gods, where the light just got prettier…

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This was Brett’s one request–a picture of them both in their CSU sweatshirts.  We were happy oblige!

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Told ya we were rewarded!

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And a little something different for us with this one…I’m excited to show off one of our polaroid transfer print options!

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Mindy and Brett were amazing troopers!  Waiting out the rain (and trying new rainy poses/techniques) took some time, but they were fantastic and didn’t complain a bit!  Mindy’s sister, Andrea, came down from Denver with them to have her senior portraits done at the same time (her sneak peek will be up in the next couple of days).  Here’s the whole crew!

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