Images from a collaboration for Mukha and Peace Love Bling, both local businesses about which I cannot say enough.
The Girls’ Club; images from a collaboration with the wonderful Beth Seitz of Cut Color Style. {Beth was the magician behind the hair in this shoot, too}.
Images from our holiday adventures and misadventures. Photographed in the hills of Ohio and the nether regions of Colorado and New Mexico, by both Mr. + Mrs. Roeth.
One of my very favorite annual sessions with one of my favorite families: Embry, little Milo and parents, Camiece + DJ.
Neither Julie, who organized and hosted this event, nor I knew what to expect from A Day to Shine. We knew we believed in its mission, though: to arm women who have or have had cancer with the one thing that proves elusive to all women: self confidence.
Robyn and Jim got married at the top of the world—literally and figuratively.
Sadie and Sam love to ask me about how my husband proposed, what the wedding was like, what being married is like. Sadie said, you have to have a good story so you have something to tell your kids. How right she is; how important your story is.
Here’s a snippet of the Grimm’s story, in pictures.
These little guys were on the move from the get go. Wild kids are my favorite kind.
Images from an evening engagement shoot with Melanie & Josh.
Images from a Colorado fall evening spent with Jolee + her parents. {And a new little baby brother on the way!}
Images from a session with the regal Zoe [Akita] + her goofy little brother, Ozzie [Greater Swiss Mountain Dog] at their Colorado mountain home. Also, a few images schemed up for a holiday card.
Hudson is a 7-year-old, 3-legged Great Dane with the kind of grace so many dogs have and so many people find elusive. He’s got a cancer diagnosis too, but you’d never know it. He’s a handsome boy, and a happy one, too.
Images of a summer afternoon with Tawnya + her boys.
Images from Julie + Eric’s lovely wedding in the farmlands of Ohio. Beautiful folks and a beautiful day to be married.
Sometimes I like to think Roux seeks out the best light in the house at any given time and lays in it, waiting for me to catch on and take her photograph.
Sisters Sophie & Phoebe. I can’t help but feel a real affinity for them both; there is the same number of years between them as between my sister and I, and I can so easily remember the whimsy of that age.
Roux and Prada, Todd and I : a quintessential fall day in the heart of America.
Here’s a joke Hudson told me during this session:
Q : What kind of shoes did the chicken wear when he crossed the street?
A : Reebok bok bok boks.
This is my second year shooting the Moore family. I loved the first, the second was even better, and I don’t see any reason why that would change the next time around.
Racquel & Matt in open space, with stormy skies and gold light.
My little sister got her first puppy last winter. That puppy is a real dog now, and I didn’t realize it until I edited these photos, but my little sister is a real grown up lady now, too.
There weren’t any cramped spaces in this photo “booth” at Kate + Travis’ wedding in Winter Park, Colo. Just sweeping vistas, rainbows and sunsets.
Fast friends from law school, these three women turned out to be long-time friends.
When Stephanie was little her father used to bring her to Chatauqua, so it was fitting that we would photograph her children in the same wide open fields.
This Jen. The tattoo across her knuckles says “LONE STAR” because she is from Texas and proud of it. She is the human component in a threesome that includes Domingo, a Newfoundland-Chow mix and Lucy, a Shih Tzu. Jen has killer style and so, by default or osmosis, do her dogs.
Pueblo Mountain Park is a 611-acre open space area between Pueblo and the Sangre de Cristos in Colorado. It’s a well-kept secret at the end of a long road that nobody drives down unless they already know what’s at the other end.
We were lucky enough to spend a Saturday morning there with my dad’s old truck, a hot thermos of coffee in our hands and a couple of good dogs at our feet.
