Night Images

Last weekend we hung out with friends Stephan & Carrie on their land near Salida. We escaped the heat by running Brown's Canyon on their raft for both days. The water's still running super high, which was great news for all of us, because Carrie's a great guide and likes to hit the holes head on. So it was fun fun fun.

Nights were full of good dinners, drinking lots of wine, and running an assembly line of S'mores! The only pictures from the weekend were a handful I took one night. Everyone else was getting dinner prepped (thanks again!), the half moon was out, and Venus was shining super bright. Them's good makings for night photography, one of my favorite times to photograph. I forgot the tripod, so I had to go old school and rest the camera on my photo backpack and hit the self-timer. I'm always amazed how much light and color you can find at night....

Here's Venus over Mt. Wilson...


"Buttercup" all lit up...


Campfire blazin away...


Lynn, Stephan & Carrie watch the pasta cook...


I love the zoom lens, it creates the coolest lens flares shooting right at the sun or moon...


Our bottle of Merlot...


Zula hangs out by the fire...

Breana & Phil "tee" the knot

Breana & Phil had a good idea of the kind of place they wanted to have their engagement session. They wanted trees, water, mountain views, all that good stuff. We had been considering a few Colorado mountain locations until they came up with the perfect locale....a golf course! It has it all..trees, water, mountain views, and they love to golf together which made it the obvious choice for them. Lynn and I headed out on the fairways with them to shoot along....





Breana sinks the putt!










Breana displays her swinging power by breaking the head right off her driver...


The 12th hole a Hyland Hills has some amazing views, especially around sunset.






Here's a funky shot in the reflection in the golf cart hubcap....












If you look really close, you can see their faces reflected in the ring band.


Congratulations Breana & Phil, we'll see you in September!

"Got any good Wedding Stories?"

As wedding photographers, we are asked pretty often if we have "any good wedding stories". Honestly, we never really had a very unique story until now: Luke & Libby's. They are an awesome couple, and had an absolutely fantastic wedding day. Preparations were downtown Denver, their ceremony was at the beautiful St. Eliz's downtown, and the reception at the Denver Performing Arts complex....and once again, gorgeous Colorado weather was cued up for the whole day. Everything couldn't have gone better...until about 11:30pm toward the very end of the reception. Luke was cutting a rug out on the dance floor and suddenly slid to the floor. A few of us walked over to him thinking he was goofing around, maybe mugging for the camera....not the case. We got closer and saw the worried look on his face. Uh-oh, he's not joking. Within seconds friends and family were at his side, tending to his dislocated kneecap! I can't tell you what a hard thing that was to see. Of all the things that you would expect to happen during an otherwise amazing celebration, this was not one of them. We have to hand it to Luke, he remained as calm as could be, grinning and bearing it all the way. The EMT's arrived with the stretcher on the dance floor, tended to him right away, and off they went to the emergency room -- the newlyweds: Mr. & Mrs. Luke & Libby Hanna. While not the ideal exit and ending to their day, they totally took it in stride, and wrote to us the next day that "the ER couple was recovering nicely and looking forward to some beach time in Mexico". If anyone earned it, they did.

Luke & Libby - you guys rock!

Enjoy their story...

Mark & Whitney Engagement

Mark & Whitney are one of those couples that are just fun to be around. We're reeealllly looking forward to their wedding at the Mt. Princeton Hot Springs in the Collegiate Peaks. How cool is that?! These guys are really laid back and were up for anything when it came down to their engagement shoot. Whitney said they had a bazillion pictures of themselves in the mountains, so we headed for downtown Platte River Park in Denver. Its an awesome place for photos, with a great mixture of nature and city....

This is one of our favorites. Cheers to Mark for carrying Whitney up and down the hill while we shot away! Cue the beautiful Colorado sky...










Here they are on a yacht. Well, maybe not a yacht, but it is the coolest sculpture/structure downtown.




Playing on the railroad tracks...had to shoot and keep an eye out for the Light Rail train...




Whitney and her super contagious smile and laughter...


A couple of hams at heart in front of the camera....our favorite kind of people!




See you guys at the Hot Springs in August!!!