Tag Archives: Digital Photography

Jill and Brandon’s Colorado Springs Wedding

Venue: El Paso Club Jill and Brandon are both Air Force pilots, and met in the service. I was thrilled at the opportunity to photograph their wedding reception in Colorado Springs as well as a day before shoot in Breckenridge. One of my favorite things about this couple was just how fun and easy going[more…]

Kristin and Jared’s Fall Wedding in Beaver Creek, Colorado

Venue: The Splendido at the Chateau, Beaver Creek, Colorado Flowers: Hot House Flowers of Vail Dress: David’s Bridal Menswear: Men’s Wearhouse Rings: Jared’s Galleria of Jewelry Hair and Makeup: Spa Anjali at the Westin   Jared proposed to Kristin on  trip to Paris when they visited the Isle de Cite. They planned the perfect Fall Colorado wedding[more…]

Anatomy of an Image #13: Dynamic Imagery

  Creating Dynamic Images I am going a slightly different direction with this Anatomy of an Image post, because I am sharing 14 images from seven different weddings. The idea occurred to me when someone in a wedding photography forum noted how all the images photographers post seem to be very different then what you[more…]

Anatomy of an Image #12

Photographing with Invisible Light: Infrared   Our eyes are capable of seeing only a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum known as visible light. Yet, we can use instruments to help us detect invisible light like x-rays, radio waves, and infrared light. Infrared light is the same light that night vision goggles use. It was[more…]

Amber and Aaron’s Loveland Wedding

Venue: Loveland Ski Area Coordinator/Florist: Karin Novotny, The Garden Path  Dress and Veil: Pronovias from The Bridal Collection Mens Formalwear: Calvin Klein Hair and Makeup: Keri Winters Bridal Amber and Aaron met on a set up ski date at Arapahoe Basin in Colorado. They hit it off on that first chairlift ride, and have been together[more…]

Katie and Kyle’s Breckenridge, Colorado Wedding

    Venue: Dry Gulch Placer, Breckenridge, ColoradoFlowers: Lisa with Garden of EdenDress: Vanessa by Wtoo from Boulder BridalMenswear: Vera Wang from David’s BridalCatering: Moe’s BBQCake: Blue Moon BakeryMusic: Jeff from Encore EventsJewelry: GlitzetteMakeup: Alpine Spa & Salon     Kyle proposed to Katie on a vacation to Hawaii in 2013. They both had a lot[more…]

Ashley and Chris’s Breckenridge, Colorado Wedding

Ceremony Location: Sapphire Point Reception Location: Hearthstone Restaurant Ashley and Chris have an amazing lifestyle working for the airlines and traveling the country together. They have lived in nearly 40 states in the last two years. Being such an adventurous couple, it is no wonder that they decided to have their wedding in the mountains of[more…]

Jennifer and Said’s Denver, Colorado Wedding

  Venue: Denver Botanic GardensHair: Namaste, Aveda Concept SalonNails: 5th Avenue Nails, Cherry CreekBarber: Floyd’s 99Officiant: Micha Sturr, Wedlock Officiants   Jennifer and Said are an amazing couple. When I met them for their engagement session last year, they mentioned to me that they liked cycling, so we had that in common. It was only later[more…]

Images from the first Photo Walk of the season

    We recently had the first guided photo walk of the year. We spent two hours in Breckenridge learning about the history and photography. During the walk, I helped the group find a mother fox and her four kits who practically posed for our photographs. All in all it was a great experience for[more…]

I am not a Rockstar

   Can you name a single photographer, alive or dead other than Ansel Adams? That is a question I ask my photography students. Often they can name one or two because they are studying photography, but if I posed that question to the general public, I wonder how many could name a photographer. I wonder how[more…]