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:

Operation Love Reunited focuses on providing photography services to families of deployed military members.  I love seeing how strong military families are, and today’s family was no exception!  Araceli, Alondra, and Aliveigh were great at our portrait session today, in spite of the cold weather!

You know how I love to photograph little boys?  I also love to photograph sisters.  These two are awesome sisters.  Check out how they’re holding hands–I didn’t tell them to do that!

Tickling your little sister is pretty much mandatory:

I had to put that one in a storyboard series:

I love this shot of their awesome mom!

Ready for my favorite shot from the day? This is from their cute little family cheer:

The focus of OpLove sessions is supposed to be on the military/patriotic aspect, so we covered that, too:

They all had dog-tag style necklaces:

Thanks for braving the cold morning with me today!  I look forward to showing you the rest of the photos next week!

These two were so great at having cozy moments!

This was five minutes into the shoot.  TOTAL NATURALS!

I frequently ask couples to make each other laugh.  Kari went right for tickling…

We had a gorgeous afternoon with lots of sunshine and the last of the autumn leaves!

They brought their Chicago Bears jerseys along, so we came up with a few cute shots.

Mine:

Nic’s:

So cute!

We finished the shoot with some doggie shots.

Thanks for a wonderful afternoon, Kari and Michael!  We can’t wait for your wedding–we know it will be a spectacular weekend!

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And one behind the scenes shot to round us out…

]]> http://realphotography.com/blog/colorado-springs-engagement-photographer-kari-and-michael-palmer-park/feed/ 2 http://realphotography.com/blog/colorado-springs-senior-portraits-jack/ http://realphotography.com/blog/colorado-springs-senior-portraits-jack/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:30:51 +0000 Colorado Springs Wedding Photographer http://realphotography.com/blog/?p=996 The weather was conspiring against us for Jack’s senior portraits (it started to downpour just as we arrived), so we raced to relocate his session to Palmer Park (where we didn’t see a drop of rain–gotta love Colorado Spring’s isolated showers)!

Jack is an amazing guy and if I had a teenage daughter (or even a toddler daughter) I’m pretty sure I would have arranged their marriage on the spot.

Jack’s gorgeous sister was the unofficial stylist of the shoot and so we got some shots of them together:

Jack carried her up a rock since platform shoes aren’t really made for rock climbing and I got some of my favorite pictures from the shoot out of it!

After the storm had passed, we made our way back to Manitou Springs for some shots at spots they’d seen while having lunch that day. I wanted to stop at some abandoned train cars Nic and I spotted last week:

I had an OpLove photography session at Palmer Park (one of my favorite Colorado Springs locations) on Saturday. Here are a few of my favorites:

This little girl loves her daddy so much. I love how she looks so much younger in this shot:

When I asked her to steal her daddy’s hat (after hearing that she loves to wear it), she corrected me. Apparently it is THEIR hat, not HIS hat.

He is equally popular with this little guy. I got a ton of great family pictures of everyone exploring the park.

I love portraits of a family walking. In this case, there was a lot of laughing and running.

And this is the inevitable outcome of running and being little. I told them that it was a good thing I have this photo for their lawsuit against me.