Perfect day for a wedding!

We had a great time this weekend shooting Meg and Chris's wedding up at Lionscrest Manor in Lyons, Colorado. We had so much fun a few months ago doing their engagement session at Lakeside, and it was so great to watch them get married. I promised myself I wouldn't tear up, but when it came time for the first dance..well...I couldn't stop myself. It was so sweet. Here are some images from that beautiful day! I also had a hard time choosing only 5 images...so here are some extras!! :)

A moment of quiet before the ceremony.


The wind really kicked up and started playing with Meg's hair - I love these images.


Meg's dad looking at his daughter before walking down the aisle.




I love the look in Chris's eyes as he looks at his beautiful bride during the ceremony!

Busy May

Well I have promised myself that I would post at least twice a month, and include images from my favorite couple of sessions from the past month. This month has just flown by so quickly I can't believe I last posted May 1st! I spent a bunch of this month on vacation, though, and you know vacation time *always* goes too fast!

One of my closest friends came up for my birthday earlier this month, and without the kids around we were able to take our time and take some photos of her!! Of course, these are some of my favorites from the past month!

Miss Broomfield

Yesterday we had a great time photographing Miss Broomfield 2008, Jamie Dukehart-Conti, who will be competing in the Miss Colorado pageant this June 22. I am proud to be a sponsor for Jamie, and we had a great time with all the different colors and fancy clothing and jewelry that she brought. What a beautiful young woman! We will be rooting for you, Jamie!

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.