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Wedding Photography Workshop

admin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:42:11 +0000

I will be teaching several photography workshops this summer through Altitude Fine Art Photography Gallery in Breckenridge, Colorado. For more information, please visit www.altitudegallery.com/workshops.

One Day Business of Wedding Photography

When: September 24, 2010

Where: Breckenridge, CO

Cost: $199 per person

Includes Lunch and models

Are you interested in wedding photography? This class will teach you what you need to know to break into the business the right way. This workshop is broken in to two distinct parts; a classroom session filled with ample time for Q&A, followed by a field session with professional models.

Visit www.gobreck.com to book your lodging.

Schedule is subject to change

Interested in this workshop? Drop us an email or apply online!

Friday, September 24th

10:00am: Meet at (location to be determined)
10:30am Classroom I: Business Talk
- We will be exploring the realtities of becoming self employed including taxes, advertising expenses, time commitment, finances, and competition.
11:30am Classroom II: Equipment
- This session looks at the equipment needs of the wedding photographer. In edition to cameras, we will disucss lighting, lenses, computers, and digital storage media. You will also learn about different means of financing your equipment.
12:15pm Working Lunch Break
- A catered lunch will double as a time for questions and answers with photographers working in the business.
1:00 Classroom III: Pricing, Creativity, and Finding a Niche
- One of the most common questions emerging wedding photographers ask is, “How do I know what to charge?” This session will focus on creativity and pricing which go hand in hand.
2:00 Image critique. Bring up to 10 printed images, or an album for review
2:30 Break
3:30 Field session
- During the field session you will be able to work with professional models and photographers. You will also have access to professional lighting. This is a great portfolio building session

Altitude Gallery is offering the Fall Landscape Photography Workshop on Saturday. Sign up for both for only $249.

Schedule is subject to change without notice due to a variety of factors such as weather.

Click here to fill out a workshop application

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Living the Dream and Remembering to Work

admin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:26:07 +0000

People walk in to my shop in Breckenridge every day and remind me how lucky I am to be able to live the dream and turn my passion in to my profession, and they are absolutely correct. In reality, I don’t need any reminder as to how lucky I am. Photography has brought me into the lives of countless people, through portrait and wedding photography, and has enabled me to travel to far corners of the world and experience things that would have been impossible if it wasn’t for me being a professional photographer.

Out of the last year, I’ve spent over four months travelling in order to photograph. I spent a month of that time in Tibet, where I was able to stay in guest houses sipping yak butter tea while watching the sun rise on Mount Everest. I spent two weeks on a road trip to California with my wife, during which time, I alternated between days of photography and rock climbing. For nearly two months I explored New England during the peak of the fall colors. I have photographed 2 weddings in Nepal, one in Washington D.C., another on the beach in Southern California, not to mention countless weddings across Colorado. This to me is what living the dream is all about.

Sometimes, I need to remind myself of how this is all possible. Part of that is realizing that photography is only a small part of the equation. There are many things that most people don’t know about that are required in order for me to be a successful photographer. So much time is spent on budgeting, it borders on ridiculous. For instance, when I traveled to Asia this past year, I incurred a lot of expenses. I had to weigh the option of having a magazine pick up the tab, or paying for the trip myself and having more freedom to photograph what I want. Then there is the question of whether or not I could pay for the expense with income earned from the project. This is an exceedingly impossible task due to all the variables involved.

Also, there is this illusion that photographers are self employed. People say that it must be great to make my own hours. A lot of time it is, but I also work pretty hard. It isn’t unusual for me to work 20 hours each day when on a project or photographing a wedding. With wedding photography there are no second chances, do overs, sick days, or good enoughs. It has to be perfect the very first time. With each wedding, I photograph, hours of time is devoted to planning every detail ahead of time, because I know expectations are nothing less than perfection.

That all being said, I do love my job. I am getting to live my dream, but sometimes I need to remind myself of all the work that goes in to it, because the last thing I want is to become complacent.

Andrea and David’s Wedding

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:07:03 +0000

Andrea and David asked me to be part of their small intimate wedding at the Lodge at Breckenridge. They were a great fun couple to work with and the winter weather really cooperated for us making for some relatively warm temperatures and some great views of the mountains.

Slideshows are now available

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:32:08 +0000

I am now able to create slideshows with a limited selection of music for every wedding and portrait session I photograph at no extra cost. Take a look at these samples from some recent sessions.

Hideki and Tomoko’s Wedding

Asher’s Three Month Photos

West Family Portrait Session

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MJ and Pete’s Wedding – Laguna Beach California

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:56:45 +0000

Less than a month after travelling to D.C. to photograph a wedding, I was invited to photograph another wedding in Laguna Beach, California. Pete and MJ had planned one of the coolest weddings I have ever attended. It was a wedding on the beach right before sunset followed by a small reception on the rooftop bar at The Hotel, La Casa Del Camino. This was my fifth destination wedding of 2009, but it was my first on a beach.

The only thing I didn’t like about this wedding was returning to all the snow in Colorado after spending the weekend on the beach.

Rose Taguchi Wedding

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:37:55 +0000

This past fall I had the pleasure of travelling to Washington D.C. to photograph an old friend’s wedding. I’ve known Hideki since high school and when we asked me to come to D.C. to photograph his wedding to Tomoko, I was honored. This has been the 4th wedding I have traveled to photography outside of Colorado in the past few months, and it was a blast. The bride, Tomoko, as well as several friends and family members are from Japan, which gave me another great opportunity to meet people from another culture. For anyone who knows me well, they know that this is one of my favorite things about photography.

Getting Ready

Hideki's mother getting ready

Flower in Tomoko's hair

Tomoko getting ready

It was a lot of fun. After photographing them getting ready at the hotel in Roslyn, we drove over to the Lincoln Memorial where Hideki had proposed to Tomoko to do some photos there. Even though the memorial steps were very busy, when we walked around to the back side of the memorial, we had the place to ourselves.

Hideki and Tomoko behind the Lincoln Memorial

Tomoko in front of the George Washington Memorial Bridge

After photographing at the memorial, we went back to the Top of the Town in Roslyn for the ceremony and reception. The venue overlooked all of D.C. and the Potomac.

Hideki and Tomoko on the balcony of the Top of the Town

First Dance

Walton Ward Wedding

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:17:07 +0000

I was fortunate to be invited to photograph this couples intimate wedding which they celebrated with their children here in Breckenridge, Colorado. They held their ceremony along French Gulch in front of a mountainside covered in Aspen trees. Although it snowed for the last few days, the day of their wedding was one of those perfect Colorado bluebird days without a cloud in the sky. To see the rest of the images from their wedding, please click here.

Wedding planning by Element Events. www.elementevents.biz

Kim and Evan’s Carbondale Wedding

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:59:38 +0000

This past weekend I had the privilege of photographing Kim and Evan’s wedding in Carbondale, Colorado just west of Aspen. It was held at the family’s home just east of town, overlooking Mount Sopris. These are just a few of the photos. To see the rest, click here.

My favorite wedding

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:09:49 +0000

I was recently speaking with a fellow photographer regarding our favorite weddings. It is actually something I hadn’t thought about before, but I it turns out I didn’t have to think long. My favorite wedding was one I wasn’t even invited to much less had a plan for photographing.

Last spring I had spent a few weeks in Nepal. One morning I went on a tour of the small village of Banepa. Afterwards, instead of taking the bus, I decided to walk with our guide back to the town of
Dhulikhel, where I was staying. He returned to the hotel, and I decided to head back to the main area of town to use the internet. As so often happens in Nepal, the electricity was out, and the internet cafes were closed. Since I had my camera with me I decided to make the most of my time and explore some of the back alleys of
Dhulikhel. Once I got off the main street with the never ending auditory assault of the constant car horns, things became much quieter. I could hear some people playing instruments down another alley and I decided to investigate.

When I found the source of the music, I wasn’t sure what was going on. There were about a dozen musicians dressed in red in the street, and maybe another 100 people in the yard of a large house. I didn’t speak much Nepali. And what I did speak was mostly limited to arranging a hotel room or ordering a meal. So, I looked for a someone who looked like they were school aged. When traveling abroad, I have found that most people have studied english in schools, but tend to forget it as they get older.

I met a boy who told me that there was a wedding happening, and he then introduced me to his father. It turns out his father was related to the groom, and he invited me to join the wedding party. It was really a huge honor to find myself in a small town in a country that I had only just arrived in, being allowed to join in such an important moment in this family’s life.

One of the best ways to experience another culture is to actively participate in their lives and ceremonies, and I’m pretty sure there isn’t a better way to do this than to be involved with a wedding. My favorite thing about photographing weddings is being allowed in to one of the most important things that two people will likely experience together. However this wedding was truly a new experience for me.

Weddings in the West are typically happy affairs in which the couple has known each other for years, and they can’t wait to finally get married. I had found out that this couple had only met a few weeks before the wedding, and only briefly. The groom looked nervous the entire time, and the bride was practically in tears during the ceremony. It was a little unnerving to say the least, but I tried to keep an open mind. A few days later, when I met up with some Nepalis my age, they were able to better explain what was going on. First they had explained to me, how much they appreciated their families finding there spouses for them, and how terrifying it must be to have to find our own here. I hadn’t really thought of things that way before, and I recalled how terrifying it was to propose to my wife. They also explained the crying bride. In Hindu culture, when a woman is married, she ceases to become part of the woman’s family and becomes part of her husbands family. So, her not being upset at the wedding would be a sign of disrespect to her family. In fact the woman is usually very happy about the marriage, but showing happiness on the wedding day is considered unacceptable. I did get the chance to see the same thing at another wedding I was at in Nepal a week later with a better understanding of the culture, and it was a lot different. Particularly because I was able to meet the bride the next day, and could see how happy she was compared to the day before.

I would have to refer to this as the “ultimate destination wedding.” At least it was for me. This wedding really let me experience the culture of Nepal first hand. I got to meet people and see things that I might not have otherwise had the chance to. The family welcomed me like I was one of their own. I got to experience traditional Nepali food (the taste as well as the consequences,) as well as the local homemade liquor, roxi, which not surprisingly after tasting it was brought to the wedding in plastic bottle which looks suspiciously like antifreeze containers. Best of luck to the Srestha family who really made my first few days in Nepal ones to remember always.

Model Shoots in Arizona

admin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:12:21 +0000

I’ve traveled to the Grand Canyon over a dozen times and hiked to the bottom at least four times in the last decade. It has always been pretty inspirational for me from both a photographic and a spiritual perspective. In fact I met my wife, Carin, while backpacking there in 2001. While on vacation this past month, Carin once again donned her wedding dress to help me work though some more photographic ideas I’ve been having. First I had the picture in my head of a bride on the rim of the Grand Canyon, and what better place to do that then the relatively unvisited Toroweap Point.

I spend a lot of time photographing brides in front of gorgeous natural settings here in Colorado, but I wanted to try something totally different. We decided to photograph at Hoover Dam for the more industrial and almost anti-nature feel to it. My goal was to reveal the beauty of a scene that on the surface wasn’t beautiful at all.

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