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I adore our custom flushmount albums. I obsess about them and drool over the leather swatches. I think they are amazing and the perfect way to see your pictures. I get so excited when our couples order an album because that’s how I want them to see their pictures. Not on a disc, but in a gorgeous album, designed to reflect the day and perfectly printed so the colors are amazing and will last forever.

I got way excited when I learned about a new cover option: glass. (It’s not really glass, it’s plexiglass, because an actual glass album would be fragile and dangerous, but when I think of it as a glass album, I love it that much more.)

I knew immediately what I wanted to make my sample from: Meg and Matt’s engagement shoot. I created the album and then had to wait for the cover to be an ordering option at my vendor (this took forever). Then I had to wait two months for my album to arrive (this took forever, too). And then on Monday, there it was at my door: the coolest album ever.

And one of my favorite spreads:

I could totally see using these as adorable guest books. Speaking of which, tomorrow I’ll share another cool product: the storyboard Kara and Drew are using as a “guestbook” at their wedding!

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This weekend I was feeling a bit like a mopey-dope, but then I had Aubree and Zack’s engagement shoot and everything got awesome really quickly. The weather was perfect, Aubree and Zack wore fantastic colors, we met the grown up’s equivalent of Santa and his sleigh (more on this in a minute), and I got a couple of New Favorite Pictures:

colorado springs engagement portrait

colorado springs outdoor engagement photo

I warmed them up with a little exercise–piggy back rides, jumping, and spinning each other.  It’s really not an engagement shoot if you’re not sweating 10 minutes into it.  ;)

engagement portrait piggy back

colorado springs engagement portrait

colorado springs engagement

engagement portrait

After all that piggy backing and swinging around, it was a good thing we spotted the Red Bull car (excuse my crappy snapshot–I was so excited to see such coolness that I’m lucky I even remembered where the shutter release button is).

We were all talking about how awesome it was when the Red Bull Guy asked if we’d like some free Red Bull.  As if that’s even a question!  Umm, yes–I definitely want some Mommy Crack (as it is called in the Turchin household)!  Of course, at 2am when I was still powering through work at my desk that night and wondering why I wasn’t tired, it seemed like a less good idea…but free Red Bull is a gift you don’t turn down.

After our Red Bull break, we stopped at this bridge that I’d always wanted to play at:

colorado springs engagement photo

And then went back to awesome colorful pictures and landscapes

colorado springs engagement portrait

colorado springs engagement pictures

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I met Cyndi and Niko at a stables in Castle Rock to take some family pictures with their horse. It was so much fun to do something a little different and I can’t wait to photograph Cyndi’s horse show next weekend!

colorado springs family photographer

(Did you catch the horse sticking out his tongue at me?!)

colorado springs family photographer

colorado springs family photographer

colorado springs family photographer

colorado springs family photographer

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