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This is Heidi and Leon – an awesome couple who got married by the Dalai Lama in 2010, but had no wedding photographer. Instead they decided to have a picnic on top of Vail for their one-year anniversary. They wore their wedding outfits and the three of us had a blast.
I’m going all out making dinner for tonight, what are you doing?
I’m honored to have shot another one of my good friend’s engagement photos. Yu and I’s friendship goes back for about ten years, he is one of my best friends from High School and we have remained in close contact since graduation, which is always difficult. A while back he met Cassandra through work – when he told me about her I thought she might be it for him, and I was right. They were engaged late last year and I was lucky enough to be asked to shoot their engagement photos when I was back in the Pacific Northwest for Christmas. Click the thumbnails to see the gallery.
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Sometimes things don’t work out.
This is Jenny. She and I had been trying to get this shoot on the road since last fall, when everything went wrong. Cold season, then weather, then I left for a month, and when I got back it was cold. It sat on the shelf in the back of mind all year until I finally made it happen last month. Low and behold, it all went wrong once again. The bike didn’t fit in my car, the traffic was astoundingly bad, the sun was going down, and the weather was rolling in. We weren’t going to make it to our location so we scrambled to come up with something closer. We ended up at this walking path along the river in Golden; I hated it. It wasn’t anything like what I had in mind, and my plan was shot, but I hadn’t come this far to get shut down again, and I wasn’t about to pull up and tell Jenny I had wasted her time so I pulled my head out of my ass and completely changed my plan. This is the final product (one of many, actually), and I’m super happy with it. No complaints at all. I guess the point is, and this is cheesy but, sometimes you’ve just got to make it work out.
This isn’t the photo I set out to make, and now it’s cold again, but the idea is still on the shelf. Maybe next year. And honestly, I have a strong feeling that this this turned out better than what I had ever planned. The title is “Cruise” which I find fitting.
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Laura and Dagfinn met in Library school (I didn’t know there was such a thing either, but it sounds awfully intense) in NYC, and recently made the move to the considerably less-big big city. When I first met them they seemed appropriately quiet for a couple of librarians, but a few belgian drafts in and their energetic side showed through in their great senses of humor and wit. That side didn’t quit on their wedding day either, which was a ton of fun to be a part of. They had a very small, gorgeous ceremony and reception; I hope some of my images tell the story of just how personal it was, and how much chemistry these two have!
Quick plug for my second shooter Jeff Wilson, who is super talented and does his own weddings (almost as well as me!). Check out his flickr photostream here.
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