Throughout the year Andy & I take many portraits of families, children and sometimes dogs. In this case, the dog is our own…She’s eight years old and full of personality! The weather has been so nice here in Colorado we decided to take her out and let her be a model for an afternoon. This particular session required almost an entire bag of carrots but I think we pulled off a few cute shots!
We live in a day and age where it is not always easy to see the beauty and good things right in front of us. It is easy to get fixated on “bad” and forget about the “good”. This picture reminds me of my wife. Her favorite flower is a sunflower. I have heard many people ask her how and why, can she love a flower that is a weed? I am not sure what kind of a weed this is, but there is a beauty to it. I am glad I took the time to enjoy it and take a picture of its beauty.
Many times weddings are on a strict timeline with lots of guests food waiting to be served. Depending on where the wedding is located, the timeline of the day and the weather we may not get a lot of time to do pictures with the bride and groom or sometimes our couples love pictures enough that they just want more of them! Over the years Andy and I have done many weddings where we do another session with the bride and groom the day after their wedding. The couple gets dressed back up but usually the bride will wear her hair differently than the day before. Then we go out and have a great time taking pictures with them on a more relaxed scale then their wedding with no timeline and no guests around. This was one of those sessions with James and Jennifer! Because his family was from another country they spent the day after their wedding touring Colorado while we took the couple back out for more pictures!
Over the years we have shot at least a dozen weddings with Holy Trinity for the ceremony and the Brown Palace for the reception. The two go very well together. History is abundant as well as character in the two venues. This wedding image was taken at Holy Trinity. The couple loved the old stairs, and with so many photographers shooting there over the years I wanted to create something denver had never seen before. We have this one hanging in the office, and it is a sneak peak of the rest of the wedding we will be posting on Friday.
