Sweet Love

We did an engagement session this weekend for a young couple whose wedding I will be photographing in June. Brendan goes to The School of Mines, so we did this down in Golden. I have to admit, as I was editing these images they brought tears to my eyes (anyone that knows me knows that isn't TOO hard to do) because the photos are so sweet and the love between them is clearly visible. Such a sweet couple!

One of the Highlights of my life

The past few weeks have been so busy for me both professionally and personally. One of the high points of my life occurred on April 22nd when one of my closest friends gave birth to her first baby. She and I have a history going back to 1994 when we met in college, and since then it's been no looking back. We have been though everything together including moving out to Colorado, my dad passing away, marriage and now her first baby!! I was lucky enough to share this event with her in the delivery room. She actually had a c-section and it was just amazing to be able to experience this with her, and also to capture this event that she 'kinda' remembers, but can now experience again through my images. I know this is alot, but here are a bunch of those images, all taken within a few hours of birth from our own personal collection of images.

This is me SO EXCITED before being let into the OR.

SURGERY! I couldn't take any images of the actual surgery, so this doesn't actually show anything.

The little guy's first photo!!

Being handed to daddy for the first time!

Mom still being worked on with daddy holding baby in the foreground.

Daddy taking in that he is a father!!!

7.10lbs!! Not a little one!

Mommy and baby getting to know each other!


Cute as a button!!

He's 16??

I had the funniest thing happen to me last weekend when Cathy (my new intern) and I were photographing a family. Joyce told me about the kids who would be in the photos, and told me their names - the 16 year old being Charles. When we showed up at the door, the guy that opened the door introduced himself as Charles. I thought to myself....there is no way he is 16...but I was not really sure of myself. For a few seconds I was thinking...really??...he's 16?...no way...then I was introduced to the 16 year old Charles and.....lightbulb...I made the connection. Father and Son. Charles squared. Mystery solved. :)

I had a great time with this session. The kids were all so darn cute...how can you NOT love photographing these guys??






ok...call me crazy...I think the feet photos are going to be a regular thing! Love the contrast between the adorable pudgy little baby feet, the pretty painted toes, and the almost adult ones!!!! :)

Red Beds

I had a blast this weekend photographing a very high energy, very fun group of six 14-15 year olds calling themselves the "Red Beds". They are a group of 6 different personalities that are going to different high schools next year, so they decided they wanted to do a session before that happened. They had me cracking up as I was looking through the images trying to determine which ones to post for the blog preview because most of the images are completely goofy! I think these are some of my favorites.