It’s like there’s a cardinal rule that if the first session gets rained out, the rain check will be twice as beautiful as you could have hoped for in the first place.
A perfect May day, a kick-ass get-away car, and a surprise marching band : all around a win.
Mindy and Cameron are crazy talented photographers themselves, and I’m guessing that had something to do with the fact that they were able to appreciate the magical secret garden quality of the abandoned greenhouse enough to brave the ticks and the broken glass and the poison ivy.
There’s some secret meteorological law that says whenever I see Brooke and Ben there’s a snowstorm.
A totally perfect spring evening with Lindsay and Andy.
Emily and Abe are simply marvelous; they are the creme de la creme, the cat’s meow, the bee’s knees.
A few snowy portraits from Lacey and Jon’s intimate wedding in the hills of Southeastern Ohio.
Laura and Ryan said ‘I do’ on a frigid February evening in Colorado. The snow on the ground and the chill in the air only made it that much more memorable.
This one is near and dear to me. Leigh is my cousin and most of these wedding guests are related to me by blood, which means there’s no denying the post-wedding dance moves. So much gangnam style.
I’ve been talking with Brandy and Micah since before they were officially engaged, and getting to spend time with them over the last several months has been such a cool part of the process. I love these portraits of them, images distilled down to the very essence of what draws them together in the first place.
Months before we did these photos, when this session was just a date on the calendar, Brooke and Ben said the thing they really wanted was snow. We thought we would have to drive up into the high elevations to find snow on command like that, but instead, on the day we had written in our calendars there was a blizzard. It snowed and snowed and snowed, and it transformed Wash Park into a winter wonderland.
On our first day in New York, Mike proposed to Tara. On the second, the three of us traipsed around the city–shooting, freezing, eating, riding in taxi cabs, talking weddings. It was a good trip for me, so I can only imagine the high they’re probably still on.
Documenting a proposal is like getting to read the prologue after reading all of the other chapters a hundred times over.
Here’s to the first wedding of the new year: Stephanie and Tyler’s urban nuptials in the first days of 2013.
Portraits of Laura and Ryan in the Southern Colorado city of Pueblo.
Portraits of Amanda and Eric in small town Ohio, and in the Ohio countryside.
This is my best friend wearing her wedding dress.
Stefanie, Dane, and their Viszla, Bella, cut down a Christmas tree last week in the outskirts of Columbus.
Cara, Ian, and their pup Maple in the Ohio forest.
Paper cranes, sunset, and a white dog that looks like a fox.
Fall storms forced us to cancel the first engagement session, so when we pulled into the parking lot and were greeted with pouring rain, we sat in our cars wondering what to do next. And then the rain abated, the sun came out and our patience was rewarded with a perfect, complete rainbow.
Crystal and Lee got married at her childhood home, an estate in the Ohio countryside that, beautiful as it was, still didn’t compare to the way Crystal and Lee glowed.
A couple easy favorites from Rachel + Bret’s Boulder engagement session.
Rachel and Tyson in the fall forest.
On a blustery September day Jamie and Ronnie got married at a beautiful old barn just down the road from where Jamie grew up.
Kelly and Ryan have fun cornered, and you can’t take a bad picture of either one of ‘em.
Leave it to a pair of wedding photographers to have a wedding that pays due diligence to the visual : a vineyard with rows and rows of twisting grapes, big yellow orbs of balloons that float around like the sun itself, and every moment scripted according to light.
A couple of portraits from Apryl and Nate’s Ohio wedding last month.
A couple quick favorites from Frances and Eric’s classically-inspired wedding at the Columbus Athletic Club.
Mariana and Luke got married at the top of the world in a little Colorado mountain town.
There is nothing I can say about how wonderful Shelby + Derick are that you won’t see for yourself when you look at these images.
Grace and Brennan got married in a gymnasium in the church he grew up going to. It wasn’t a fancy affair.
Portraits from Lauren + Derek’s Ohio farm wedding.
Bryony and Craig met and fell in love while doing geology work in Africa.
A few frames of sisters Freya and Isla in a field of purple wildflowers last month.
Portraits of Lori, Andy and their Boxers, George and Cochise.
Sunrise portraits of Cindy and Trey in downtown Denver.
This wedding was so full of emotion; not just between Colleen + Zack, but from everyone around them.
I spent the evening with Jaci, Matt + and their dogs on a warm summer evening in rural Ohio. Better even than an engagement session, these photographs were taken on Jaci + Matt’s 14-year anniversary, almost to the day.
I edited these images in a Denver coffee shop with a ridiculous smile plastered across my face the whole time. These two just have fun together. Nevermind that it was a balmy 100 degrees that day, or that Crystal had never ridden a tandem bicycle, much less one that is as unruly a hunk of metal as this one. And they were game for a drive to the countryside, game to wander through abandoned sheds and frolic in fields of Black-eyed Susans.
Deborah + Ben’s sweet wedding in the tiny town where they fell in love as kids.
Sarah + Nathan were married on a 500-acre cattle ranch in Colorado on a sunny day in June.
A small selection of images shot for Ghinda, a super awesome new couture bridal line out of Columbus.
Catherine and Michael have been wonderfully loyal clients who happen also to dish out great travel advice. They were the impetus behind the Crazy Bitches’ stop in Tofino (go if ever you get the chance), and are currently on a two-week road trip with their dogs in a pop-up camper which is about as awesome as it gets in my book.