take two || Colorado senior portraits
Because she’s impatient.
Because she asked nicely.
Because I’ll get double overtime coffee refills if I post these today…
…here is take two of Elise’s senior portraits!
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take one || Colorado senior portraits
There comes a time in every photographer’s life, when she will ask her younger sister — a sister who is on the verge of her senior year of high school — to precariously sit herself on a rusted half of an old wagon wheel and pose in such a manner that suggests a carefree, though excited, air of readiness for the future.
Or, you know, because it looks cool.
Elise somehow managed to speed up time and we find ourselves already facing her senior year of high school. I’m pretty sure we’re supposed to have about 12 more years to go before this mile marker. However, she is altogether convinced it is high time to sally forth into her post-high school years and is taking the rest of us along with her. Whether we like it or not.
Here is a small sampling of what we came up with on our first outing to photograph some senior portraits yesterday evening. Yes, “first outing.” One of the perks of being the younger sister to a photographer is getting as many do-overs as you like on such portrait sessions, until you get them just as you want them. One of the perks of being the photographer for such a gal in this scenario is that she pays me in coffee.
More to come!
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june 18, 2011 || one year anniversary
I asked him recently, “When was the first time we discussed starting a wedding photography business?” It may sound silly, but neither of us could precisely remember the answer to that question. For such a life-changing decision, neither of us could recall the exact time we decided we could do this.
This past Monday — June 18 — marked the one-year anniversary of our wedding photography business. On June 18, 2011, Dan and I photographed Seth and Brigid’s wedding. Since then, in just one short year, we have grown so much as a photography team.
We have challenged each other. We have succeeded. We have stumbled. We have navigated the treacherous trenches of small business tax filings. We have traveled to different time zones. We have photographed in ideal conditions and sloppy ones. We have danced. We have eaten hurried meals in a spare reception hall corner. We have downed a lot of coffee (oh wait…that was just me). We have improvised. We have planned.
We have found our fit.
Though we may never know when we decided that this idea could be a reality, we have since discovered that this is right and good.
And that’s the thing about perfect fits: they become so much a part of you, it’s like they were always there.
Thank you for an incredible year, Dan. I’m so excited for many more to come.
(Photo of Dan taken in New York City on our one-year business anniversary.)
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red barns and cowboy hats || Colorado engagement photographer
As a native of this fair Colorado state, there are few things that get me more fired up than cowboy hats, boots, cows and general Wild West moments.
So when we were able to set up this scene at Johnny and Erica’s engagement session earlier this month, my heart went pitter patter. And life was good.
Mosey on over to A&D Photography to see more of their classic Colorado engagement session.
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dancing || Denver engagement preview
It was raining and there was lightning and I could feel a cold coming on, but when I asked Johnny to start dancing with his bride-to-be, Erica, in a field in the mountains a few weekends ago, that all melted away. I expected a sort of slow dance, swaying number, but instead he broke right into a beautifully executed swing dance. Here was a fellow who knew what he was doing, and it was perfect.
This is just one of my favorite frames from Johnny and Erica’s engagement session. Many more to come!