Tag Archives: Outdoor Weddings

Anatomy of an Image #10

Summer Wedding Fun     I love creating images that allow the subjects’ personality to come through. That was completely the case with this image. Nate and Joy are one of the most fun playful couples I have ever known. In fact they even met “playing” while mountain biking with mutual friends in Moab, Utah.  They[more…]

Personal Work: Old San Juan

Old San Juan   Recently, I was in San Juan, Puerto Rico for a bridal shoot. While I was there, I came across this man playing an accordion on a door step in Old San Juan. It was just after sunset and the streets were starting to grow dim except for this one bright area[more…]

Diane and Joe’s Basalt, Colorado Wedding

Diane and Joe’s Basalt, Colorado Wedding Venue: Aspen High Mountain RanchLocation: Basalt, ColoradoDiane and Joe are high school teachers that love to spend their summer’s fishing. In fact, they own Sasquatch Fly Fishing Adventures, out of Estes Park. They spent an afternoon in Estes this summer teaching Carin and I how to fly fish and[more…]

Molly and Ryan’s Breckenridge, Colorado Wedding

Location: Breckenridge, Colorado Molly and Ryan traveled to Breckenridge, Colorado from Nebraska for an intimate mountainside wedding with close friends and family.  Even though we only had two hours together, we still ended up with hundreds of amazing photos of the couple with the friends and family. [nggallery id=53]

Janet and Rob’s Cincinnati Wedding

Location: Cincinnati, OhioVenue: Taft Museum  I new Rob through climbing, rafting, and general outdoor adventures.  I have photographed him before for National Geographic Adventure, Outside, and other magazines and climbing websites, but I was still honored when he and his fiance trusted me to photograph a more formal event like their wedding in a city[more…]

Angie and Danielle’s Arapahoe Basin Wedding

Ceremony Venue: Black Mountain Lodge, Arapahoe BasinReception Venue: Kickapoo Tavern, Keystone Colorado  Angie and Danielle came to me about photographing their small intimate wedding ceremony at the top of Arapahoe Basin’s Black Mountain Lodge. The intermittent afternoon rain made for some really amazing photographs with the changing cloud cover.  It also provided some much needed[more…]

Anatomy of an Image #6

Refelections   I am always on the lookout for interesting or unusual compositions.  This image was shot on a hotel patio where the wedding was held earlier that afternoon.  When I saw the glass partition around the patio during the day, I thought there might be a a chance of using it to capture some[more…]

Kerrie and Paul’s Breckenridge, Colorado Wedding

Kerrie and Paul in Breckenridge, Colorado Location: Sapphire Point, Breckenridge, ColoradoReception: Hearthstone Restaurant, Breckenridge, ColoradoFloral Arrangements: Petal & Bean, Breckenridge, ColoradoLodging: Allaire Timbers Inn, Breckenridge, Colorado  Paul and Kerry are a Chief Warrant Officer and Captain in the Army respectively.  They called me a few months ago while stationed in Germany about photographing their destination[more…]

David and Jessica’s Denver, Colorado Wedding

Ceremony Location: Fossile Trace Golf Club, Denver, ColoradoCatering: Three Tomatoes Steak House and Club David and Jessica’s Denver, Colorado Wedding was really amazing.  The weather cooperated to create the perfect combination of moody skies and perfect light.  Everything about the wedding was amazing, and I was so fortunate to have the chance to photograph it.  [nggallery id=43] To see[more…]

Anatomy of an Image #3

Technical Images   90% of my wedding images don’t use a lot of specialty equipment.  The vast majority of images are capture with nothing more than the camera and the right choice of lens.  The image at the right is one of the exceptions. Even though I don’t shoot with a lot of extra gear,[more…]