I really wish I would have taken a behind the scenes shot of this shoot. These were all shot on the roof of Susan’s house. The light was beautiful and the color & texture of the exterior walls was perfect. The blossoms from the tree next to the roof was the background for the black outfit. I’m sure her neighbor’s thought we were crazy but it worked out great.
Susan is a psychologist in Boulder and is a genuinely warm & caring person. The photos will be going on her new site. www.BoulderIntegrativePschology.com
Jenece Amella did her hair & makeup. Styles by Jenece.
We had alot of laughs-Susan told me that it was one of the happiest days for her. She felt so pampered.
Yeah. I love to hear that!
Congratulations Oliver
We are very proud of you!
The first time I photographed Alina was 4 years ago. Now she is almost a teenager. She looks the same-just older. Almost.
It was great to see her and her mom again. It was like hardly anytime had passed at all.
Alina will be competing in a pagent at the end of June. GO ALINA.
These headshots for Nikki were shot early on a saturday morning. Look at how the catchlights in her eyes make them sparkle. I love natural light!
Quinn is a beautiful spirited 7 year old. She loves modeling. Loves it! Look at those eyes-it’s easy to see why she has an agent.
She has a very cool mom- we discovered that we both lived in Chicago at the same time and had similar interests and we reminisced alot about the town during the session. Anytime you talk about Chicago you end up talking about all the great food places. So much so that I was ready to hop a plane to Chicago to get a pizza from the Home Run Inn!! Yummy pizza……
Turns out we worked a couple miles apart from each other during the 3 years she lived there. Small world.
We have to say a BIG Thank You to Jodi & Holly for designing our new logo. They did such an incredible job. They took such good care of us and really listened to what we were looking for in a logo design.
They sent us 4 unique designs that were all so incredible, it was so hard to narrow down our selection.
They are extremely talented- look at the graphic- it’s a piece of art!!
So again-thanks to Jodi & Holly
Jodi Bell & Holly Curtis
Connective Designs
www.connectivedesigns.com
Yesterday while working at my desk I hear the sounds of my son and dog playing outside. I thought this would be a great opportunity to get a picture of the two of them together. So I grab my point and shoot camera and head out. Well, as you can see, it was MUCH harder than it sounded when I was sitting behind the safety of my computer and envisioning a nice portrait of the two of them that I may have titled: “Boy Hugging His Dog while Sitting still and Looking at the Camera”.
Now the title is: “A five Year Old and His Puppy; YOU try to Keep Up!”.
When we first started shooting weddings, way back in the 20th century, we envisioned having a “Fine Art” package in which a bride and groom would hire us to shoot their wedding entirely in Black & White and create an Art wedding album for them. After all, we fancied ourselves as artistes and having studied photography and mastered Black & White processing and printing, this would be a dream come true.
Aside from the occasional “Can you make our album with mostly Black & White prints?” we never booked our “Fine Art” package and my dream of an entirely Black & White wedding album never came to fruition and was destined to remain a pet project of mine that I would have to work on someday during some “slow time”.
The years rolled on and our album designs have evolved into where they are now, a mixture of beautiful images, graphic design elements and splashes of color. Thanks to recent leaps and bounds in the printing and binding processes, along with the addition of several new album manufacturers, we are able to extend our offerings of albums and designs far beyond the matted “slide your print into the slot” albums of the last millennium. We are quite proud of our albums and the images that go in them.
Now, along come Kate & Brian.
Kate & Brian had a very beautiful outdoor wedding ceremony at the base of a mountain near a running river in Breckenridge, Colorado last year with an equally wonderful reception that lasted well into the starry night. To sum it up in one word I think back to when I first saw Kate that day. Terri and I were both shooting this wedding and as we normally do, she was with the women as they were getting ready and I was with the men. So the first time I got to see Kate was when the ceremony began and I was waiting to photograph her walking down the aisle toward Brian. As she stepped down from the horse drawn carriage that brought her to the ceremony site that one word sprung into my head and epitomized the moment. Stunning.
Long story short, here is their album, well the first draft of it, and it has been an absolute pleasure to work on. You see Kate & Brian asked that their album be entirely Black & White (Somebody pinch me). The whole process has exceeded all my expectations. You see, without color the album really became all about the images. No colors to match or use to tie images together or to use as backgrounds as an accompaniment, just the emotions of the day and the telling of the story of Kate & Brian’s wedding.
I am very proud and excited about this album as well as the images that Terri and I captured that day, and you can see how BIG that moment actually was for me as Kate started her walk down the aisle, those images got their own pages.
Click on this picture as a link to the album:
We did their engagement shoot in Evergreen at the Lake House. The day was beautiful-still had some snow on the ground but it was sunny and warm. Sarah & Doug are so genuinely warm and friendly.
They’re getting married in August. The ceremony will be in Boulder and the reception will be at the Chateaux at Fox Meadow. Another gorgeous wedding!
Caitlin is such a talented young girl. She acts, dances ,sings and models. Behind that sweet face is a girl that loves to hip hop dance. Loves it. This girl can dance!
We had a good laugh because when we first started the shoot she was kinda quiet and demure and then we started talking dance and voila a whole other side of Caitlin emerged. She is also a kid that is so wise beyond her years.
