Patricia and Donald were celebrating their 7th anniversary and asked me to take pictures of them in their wedding clothes at Garden of the Gods. With Colorado weather you never know what you’re going to get, and on this December day we got LUCKY! It was in the upper 50s! Even after 7 years, Patricia and Donald look like newlyweds!
Bride and groom with Garden of the Gods backdrop!
Bride and groom at sunset
Posted in Grown-ups, Second Chance Shoots
I’ve been cleaning out some files in an effort to get ready for wedding season 2010, and I ran into these photos from Jose Villa’s workshop last May. The workshop was wonderful, Jose was everything I expected–gracious and talented and funny, and the models were gorgeous. But the morning after the workshop I found out I was pregnant…hence the nine month delay in getting these processed and online!
Switching to a different look for the post processing…
Makeup and Styling: Jessica Shinyeda Flowers: Fiori Flowers
Posted in Second Chance Shoots, Wedding Photographer
“Trash the dress,” “day after,” or “second chance” shoots are a great way to get a totally different look for your wedding portraits. Bernadette and Haydn have been on the books for a trash the dress shoot since their wedding last September. We kept trying to arrange it for snow. But last winter was NOT the winter to be counting on snow, and winter turned to spring, spring turned to summer, summer turned to fall…and we decided to just schedule the shoot before things got super cold again.
So of course we woke up that second weekend of October to see that snow had fallen during the night. And had frozen to every individual blade of grass, every individual pine needle in one of those spectacular ice displays we get every so often. (If anyone knows what weather conditions cause that ice effect, please tell me! I studied it all last year trying to figure out the common denominator for what conditions have to be in place for that gorgeous icey look and I never could figure it out well enough to predict when it might happen!) We crossed our fingers that the sun wouldn’t come out and melt it all away, they braved the icey roads, and we got our snow shoot after all!
These were all taken outside our new house/studio here in Black Forest. The flowers were provided by the incredibly talented Dawn of Hillside Consultants. She even crafted the super cool orchid garlands that we used in this first shot!
Here comes my favorite shot of the day… (PS–how rad is our new backyard?!)
One of Miss B’s requests. They get extra credit for laying down on FREEZING COLD GROUND and still making it look warm and cozy and comfy!
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There are two great things about photographing clients who have turned into friends. (1) They do goofy stuff like this right in front of you:
And (2) it’s okay if your kiddo tags along for a bit. When Will saw his favorite Miss B in all her wedding dress splendor he said “You’re a princess!” and then ran off. We went outside and a few minutes later he came charging out of the house shouting “WAIT!” He had grabbed the button bouquet I’d just ordered from etsy for the new studio. He saw a bride and knew just what she needed–a bouquet. It was so precious it still breaks my heart a little! (so we let him pose in a picture with them before sending him back inside with Nic to make hot chocolate for our return!)
Posted in Second Chance Shoots
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