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.

Find your CHI!

I had a great time this weekend photographing a VERY high energy couple. It was the engagement shoot, and we decided to do a little bit in studio and then head to Boulder and Pearl Street. It was hilarious because in studio didn't work so well for these folks - they aren't the posing sort - and he kept telling her to "Find her CHI!!" which was cracking me up! (Sidenote - ok so I had to go and look up what Chi *officially* means and it means "the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things"). When we got to Boulder things went great! It started to snow so we didn't have too much time trying to get the flatirons in the background, but we headed to NCAR and stood out in the middle of the road, and kept having to watch out for each other for cars coming. I have some hilarious shots of them running off to the side of the road, and of Jill pointing at me warning of oncoming traffic! Here are a few shots from that day. I can't WAIT to shoot the wedding at Dunafon Castle!! (A CASTLE??? IN COLORADO???? :)



We ended the shoot warming up with some coffee at the Paradise cafe on Pearl Street and I couldn't resist taking this cute shot.
While we were at NCAR, we had a visitor. You can BARELY make him out in the photo - he blends into his surroundings so well - so I added the blue arrow. We all thought it was pretty cool!!!

King or Prince?

I did a pregnancy session the other day with another very cute couple. They brought in a few items that are going to be in the baby's room, and we did ended up with some very cute shots that I think will be beautiful for decorating the baby's room with. The baby's middle name is going to be Kingston, so they even brought a little crown. It's so hard to choose an absolute favorite, but I love the one where his back is turned and you can see her belly in the background.

"Wish I had my Camera!!" moment number 1millionfiftysix..

I happened to be downtown this afternoon trying to turn from I-25 onto Alameda, and traffic was backed up forever. When I FINALLY turned the corner, I couldn't BELIEVE what I saw! The SWAT team in all their black gear was out with guns drawn and pointed at this building. I was in traffic so I couldn't pull over. And I thought to myself...yet another "wish i had my camera" moment!!! It's always those times when I figure "Oh, I am just running out for a quick something-or-other..I don't need to take my camera"...and whaddyaknow.

Another one for the lesson books. :)

Now I need to search the net and see what was going on!!

Who said you can't meet your true love on a plane?

What an interesting story these two have. They met on a plane when they sat next to each other for a flight!! How cool is that?? She flew in for a quick weekend and they managed to fit in this engagement session. This was a blast as it took us through Larimer Square, down by the Platte River, and then over by that big bridge near Coors Field before the wind REALLY kicked up and the snow was threatening. It got cold FAST, but not before we got in some GREAT photos. I had a hard time choosing my favorites with this session...there were so many!

What a cutie

This was the second session we did with this little guy. What a sweetie. His big, beautiful eyes are just amazing!!


OK this one just cracks me up. He looks.....befuddled. :)

Drama

I love they way that you can look at someone through a camera lens, and see so many different parts of their personality. This was a very fun session and we got really dramatic with some of these photos.