feel pretty

February 1st, 2012

as a photographer you have an opportunity to make people feel.

feel good.

feel loved.

happy! empowered! alive! cute!

BEAUTIFUL!

our job as humans, is to give something to the other people around you. a smile. a word. a listen.

to feel. to love. to be connected. that’s what i want out of each session. i want to create/find feelings in people. i want to be connected. i feel that way when i have an opportunity to photograph these amazing BOBMSHELLS. in the beginning, many are not convinced that they are a bombshell. its a process. its an experience. and i get to be a part of that. so fulfilling!

so, this session…the beautiful vintage dress is from vanity on 6th ave. couldnt have been any more perfect :)

and downstairs from the studio is this new store called the modern cottage company, the location with the vintage dress. alison has created all of these perfectly beautiful pieces of furniture and such. she was nice enough to let us photograph in her shop, i am so excited to have her as our neighbor!  :)

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inspired-boardwalk empire studio shoot

January 9th, 2012

i love photographing outside…when this weather around here allows. this is why i am soooo glad to have a studio space for the 4-6 months out of the year that it is either cold, raining, or, raining :)

i share this amazing space with some fellow photographers. they are super cool people and i’m glad to call them my mates! i was watching boardwalk empire the other day and decided it was time for another image crew play date inspired by the show (us studiomates, we are the image crew, gotta have a name, right?).

so. much. FUN! we had our first time model, and hairstylist, paige (long hair),  my local muse, brie, the fashionista (short red hair, this girl can put together pretty much any type of style/character/whatever you can think up, plus her awesome friend sent some beautiful vintage pieces for us to use), and our gorgeous, super sexy,  in love couple, studiomate tobias and his wife angela, were our models for the day. our girl athena renee artistry was on makeup (of course), and kristal clark styled the outfits for us. oh. yeah. collaboration!!

and the other part that worked so well was the sets. our friend kim alexander created some sets for us that are absolutely puuuuurrrrfect a couple months ago. she put things together in a way only her beautifully creative brain can. i am surrounded by awesomeness, love it!

so i had a hard time narrowing these down…this is the best i could do! nothing wrong with 20 images in a post, right? who cares about a little load time? be patient, the eye candy is worth it :)

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beautiful light, sunny girl

December 16th, 2011

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a couple little muffins :)

December 12th, 2011

my friend stacey always has cute pet names for me and all her friends. she calls me muffin all the time. i just love it :) i’m stacey’s little muffin :) and these are my two little muffins, layla and elise, my friend shawna’s litttle girls. oooooooh i have so many more images to share with you! elise is a new walker and it is the cutest thing EVER. she wobbles around, can stand up without any hands from straight sitting, and topples over super easy when she’s really tired :) we went to the garden of the gods the other day while  visiting here in colorado. layla holding elise’s hand helping her walk down the trail, precious! the last two are in shawna’s bedroom with some beautiful sunshine (they have that here, so novel!) coming in through the patio doors…

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omg i cant get enough of layla’s beautiful eyes and cute little gap teeth, i love all of it!