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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Robyn + Chuck: Engagement + Family Session at Wash Park

Our second session in September also brought us back to Wash Park for Robyn & Chuck’s engagement and family session. We met Robyn at Heather & Don’s wedding back in May and are so glad we had the opportunity to work with her, Chuck and their girl’s as well. Since Robyn’s daughter, Jade, and Chuck’s daughter, Christina, would be part of the wedding it only made sense to include them in the engagement photos for a combo engagement/family session. Robyn’s friend Diane (who we also met at Heather & Don’s wedding) also joined us during the session with her cute little puppy. We knew that they were going to be a really fun group to work with- after all they were friends of Heather & Don, and sure enough they were just as much fun as we thought they would be. We had a great time photographing them that afternoon! Even got a fun “cheesy” family photo at the end- dogpile! Here’s just a few of my favorites from the day. Check back for their wedding photos sometime this next week.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The Anderson Family: Washington Park Family Session

Posted in Family

Where the heck has this month gone? Seems like it just began and now we’re almost in October! We have so much to blog about from this past month and this one goes all the way back to the beginning of September. We met the Anderson family at Wash park for their family session several weeks back. We’ve photographed at the park several times but this was only the second time doing so with young children. And we learned a very important lesson- don’t let them see the playground BEFORE the pictures or they’ll just want to play. Really can you blame them? Hmm smiling and sitting still for someone you don’t know or playing…. I’d probably want to go play tooSo after a couple attempts of getting the family together for a few pics of everyone smiling we let the girls off the hook to go play and figured we could get a few of them having fun on the playground in the process. After a little while we were then able to get everyone together for a few pictures before they were ready to get back to the playground again. Even snuck a few of the girls smiling. Here’s just a few pics from our day.

Posted in Family Tags: Denver Colorado Portrait Photographers, Denver Family Photography, Denver Washington Park Family Photography, Family Photography, Family Portraits, Highlands Ranch Family Photographers, Highlands Ranch Portrait Photographers, Washington Park Family Portraits

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Tilly + Jay: Bellingham Engagement Session

Posted in Engagement

Since starting our business officially back in 2006, Michelle and I have yet to take a single vacation. We’ve taken a few trips for weddings, photography conventions etc but nothing for just us. So, despite the fact that we are in the midst of the busy season we decided we needed a short break from everything Colorado and headed to Washington state to visit Michelle’s family. We spent our time up at her aunt & uncle’s place just north of Bellingham (which is located about 2 hours north of Seattle). While we spent our time relaxing and absolutely loving every minute of our trip we also had the opportunity to meet her cousin’s fiance, Tilly and take some engagement pictures for her and Jay. We were pretty bummed that we can’t make it to their wedding next year so decided this would be the next best thing. Well basically the one word to sum up this engagement session was AWESOME!!!!!!!!! I’m not sure if it was because we were on vacation, the beautiful location, or the fact that Tilly and Jay are a super hot couple, but this has to be one of my all time favorite engagement sessions ever! I’ve been dying to share these ever since we took them a few weeks back and here they finally are. We usually try to take engagement sessions in the evening during sunset but since Tilly and Jay had to head back to Seattle that afternoon we decided to switch it up and started a little after sunrise. Her aunt and uncle actually run a wedding venue off their property called D’Lightful Celebrations at Tail Skid Meadows (more about that later) so it’s perfectly set up for gorgeous pictures. The light was so cool at their place that we just had to get a few shots with the beautiful light before heading into town for the rest of the pictures. The rest of the time we spent photographing in the Fairhaven area of Bellingham. We had such a great time with them walking around and getting to use all these cool new locations that we’ve never shot before. We even went into one of the bookstores for a few pictures just for something different and fun. My favorite part though had to be the old rustic building with signs that told us no trespassing. Hello, that sign simply means “super awesome location” to a photographer. Truthfully we really only went into one small area that had an opening in the chain link fence right next to the open area that anyone could use. And of course we had to go down to the water and get some sweet shots under the pier and by the old posts from what must have been a pier a while ago. I could go on and on about this one but I’ll let the pictures do the rest of the talking. Tilly and Jay we had a lot of fun with you guys and are so happy for you

Posted in Engagement Tags: Bellingham Engagement Photography, Bellingham Washington Engagement Photographers, Bellingham Washington Engagement Portraits, Engagement Photography, Engagement Portraits, Fairhaven Engagement Portraits

Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Warkentin Family Portraits: Washington Park

Posted in Family

One of our brides and friends, Hanako, indirectly introduced us to the Warkentin family last year. They don’t know each other personally but both share a passion for the same cause through the Nathan Yip Foundation. Hanako brought this wonderful foundation to our attention a couple years back and it was through the foundation that we got connected with the Warkentin Family. I’d encourage you to head to their website to see what great things have been done following the tragedy that led to it’s beginning. Their son, Michael was best friends with Nathan so obviously it’s a cause they feel very passionate about. We originally planned on taking these photos last summer. However, it seemed nothing would go right every time we tried to schedule the session. Either we were booked, schedules conflicted or the snow decided to ruin our plans. So, rather than fight with the weather in the fall/winter we just decided to postpone until a better time this year. This time around it all worked out great and we had perfect weather to top it off! We were excited to finally meet the family after all that time and they were awesome. The whole family was so much fun to work with and we had a great time. We met them in Denver at Washington Park for the session and they even brought their two canine family members along for some of the picturesThank you guys so much and hope to work with you again someday!

Posted in Family Tags: Denver Colorado Portrait Photographers, Denver Family Photography, Denver Washington Park Family Photography, Family Photography, Family Portraits, Washington Park Family Portraits

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Gall & Ziesman Family: Highline Canal Portrait Session

Posted in Baby, Family

Sometimes it’s hard to believe I graduated high school 10 years ago! Especially when you see someone you haven’t seen since graduating and it’s like it was yesterday. I’ve known Emilie since I was 14- yikes that was forever ago! Through the power of Facebook- seriously what did people do before this was invented- we got connected all these years later. When she told me she was going to be an aunt and wanted her sister to get their photos taken once the baby was born I was very excited to not only see Emilie but get to see her family as well. We met Sara and her husband with the rest of the family at their parents house here in Highlands Ranch. Since the highline canal is so close we figured it would be a great location for the pics of the family. Little Sawyer is absolutely precious!!! He’s the first grandchild/nephew in the family and you can tell how much love they all have for this little guy. We had a wonderful time with everyone and love the photos we walked away with. Here’s just a few from our session- enjoy!