Tag Archives: Colorado

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…]

Progress in Marriage Equality

    In anticipation of Pridefest happening in Denver this weekend, it got me thinking of how far the fight for marriage equality has progressed in the U.S. since I photographed my first same-sex marriage in California five years ago. When same sex marriage was legalized in California in 2008, my wonderful friends MJ and[more…]

Family Portraits near Breckenridge, Colorado

Portraits in Alma, Colorado   These are a few sample images from a portrait session I did near Montgomery Reservoir above Alma, Colorado.  Alma is probably best known as the location where the Comedy Central show, South Park, is loosely based on.   We did the portrait session at the west side of the reservoir around[more…]

When equipment breaks down

 Imagine you are photographing a wedding ceremony, and right as the bride begins to walk down the aisle, your camera breaks. It becomes completely non functional to the point where you can’t even turn it off. What do you do? Do you panic? Do you ask to stop the ceremony? Do you pull out your[more…]

Anatomy of an Image #11

The Breckenridge Ice Castles are an amazing venue to photograph in. Every year as soon as it gets cold, they start adding water a little at a time, and allowing it to freeze into beautiful formations. This year they also added colored LED lights inside the ice itself to further add to the surreal beauty of the place. When this model contacted me about doing a winter photo shoot in Breckenridge, I knew this had to be the place.

My pre wedding photography life

I am going to state something that not a lot of professional photographers would do, photography is not my passion in life. In fact, it never was. My passions involve experiences such as travel, eating, meeting new people, experiencing new things. For me photography started as a means to share those experiences with others, and[more…]

Mark and Kristen’s Breckenridge, Colorado Wedding

Location: Breckenridge, Colorado Venue: Sapphire Point  Mark and Kristen had an exciting and intimate ceremony at Sapphire Point near Breckenridge, Colorado. High winds and cold weather did not deter from the beautiful ceremony with many family and friends in attendance. After there ceremony, the three of us went down to Breckenridge for some wedding photos[more…]