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Boulder, Colorado Wedding Photography | Keenan and Phil

Jul 03, 2008

This weekend we had the honor of photographing Keenan and Phil’s gorgeous wedding at Colorado Mountain Ranch in Gold Hill.

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I had been hoping their wedding would be full of little touches that show off their fun personalities, and I was not disappointed! They had the most fantastic cake I have ever seen!

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I was totally entertained by the story of the cake–our very own Meg and Matt (Phil is Meg’s brother) drove the cake up from Denver! Totally an Ace of Cakes adventure!

Keenan had an awesome crew of bridesmaids to help her get ready. There was a lot of laugher in the girl’s getting ready room!

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Phil and Keenan opted to see each other before the ceremony, which we love. It’s so nice to get the photos done early!

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And if a fantastic wedding cake wasn’t enough, they also had an award winning blue grass band perform at the reception. There was some pretty awesome dancing (even the catering staff got in on the action)!

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Congrats again, Keenan and Phil! Thanks again for letting us be a part of your fantastic day!

Posted in Wedding Photographer

Monument, Colorado | Engagement Portraits | Andy and Lauren at Fox Run Park

Jun 28, 2008

We photographed Andy and Lauren’s engagement portraits last week at Fox Run Park in Monument. Lauren’s parents live nearby, so the park is well known to Lauren (which is good, because it usually takes me 800 times longer to drive around the park).

They were pretty sure they were not photogenic at all, but we were pretty sure that they were dirty liars. :P And it turns out we win–they ARE gorgeously photogenic! See for yourself…

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A little bit of cinnamon photoshop action-ery on this next one:

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We played around for a while. Andy and Lauren are totally professional twirlers now–we love it!

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We were threatened with storm clouds, but it made for a dramatic background:

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Lauren and Andy are just as sweet and photogenic as can be. We are so excited for their wedding! (And now that they are such practiced twirlers, we’ll definitely do some spinning on the wedding day!) :)

Posted in Engagement Portrait Photographer

colorado springs event photography | cyndi's horse show

Jun 27, 2008

Cyndi hired me to provide photojournalistic coverage at a horse show here in Colorado Springs this past weekend. She wanted me to photograph it as if it were a wedding–detail shots and getting ready for the show as well as the course itself. What a cool idea!

And then it was time to ride!

Aidan is a young horse and a newbie to horse shows, so he decided he wasn’t into it and didn’t end up going over the jump that I was set up to capture at the best angle. Here’s what it would have looked like:

Cyndi still loves him. :)

A hose-down seemed like a very nice idea on such a hot day (it was really hard not to run into the water myself).

Aidan’s mane was all fancy and braided, and after the show Cyndi cut out the braids while the hair was wet so that it wouldn’t be curly. Aidan won’t let her wet his face, so the hair between his ears totally looked like he was sporting a ridiculous horse perm!

Thanks again, Cyndi, for having me photograph the horse show! It was such a fun opportunity for me, and I will have the rest of the photos ready for you soon!

Posted in Event Photographer

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