Cat Albert - Tussle Fight Gear

I am way behind on my blog posts so I thought I would start with the most recent session and work my way backwards. I shot a portrait session last weekend for my friend Cat Albert, a professional MMA fighter and totally smokin' hot chick, who needed portraits for one of her new sponsors, Tussle Fight Gear. I believe Cat's next fight is in mid-January - I'm really looking forward to it!

The Falk Family Fotos

On Father's Day, I headed out to our good friend Kevin Falkenstein's house for a portrait session with him and his girls, Sydney and Elise. My husband used to work with Kevin, so I have known them pretty much as long as I'm known Joe, about 7 1/2 years. Elise and Sydney are two of my favorite kids, although I'm not sure I can call them kids for much longer! It has been great to watch them grow up and Kevin is such a great father. The girls were actually our flower girl and ring bearer when we got married - almost five years ago.

They also have a six month old puppy named Shasta, so we started with a few of him and then a few with the family together.








After that, we headed out to Denver Botanic Gardens for some portraits with just Kevin, Elise and Sydney. The Japanese garden there is especially beautiful.




Of course we did a few of each girl separately. Elise is the older of the two:



And Sydney is the younger:


Kevin was great in getting real smiles from the girls:


A few more family pics, and of course a couple with each girl and Dad, and we were about wrapped up!



Happy Belated Father's Day Kevin!!

Kimberlin Family Portraits

It was time again for the Kimberlin Family Portaits!!! I love photographing this family, the twins are so adorable and Melody and Brian are just lovely people. This year we decided to try a new location - Hudson Gardens in Littleton, Colorado. They were setting up for a wedding in one of the gardens and it seemed like a beautiful place for it. We had a wonderful time wandering around with the girls, Audrey and Brenna.





The girls had fun smelling the different flowers.





And then we wandered through many of the other gardens.















After the above portrait we had a bit of a mishap. Brenna (in the red and white dress) is very adventurous, and was exploring the edge of the pond. In one split second, she went from leaning over the water to falling head first into it! Brian caught her quickly, with very fast reflexes, but not in time to avoid her being dipped from the neck up in the pond water. Even though I was on the other side of the pond shooting, I almost fell in myself trying to instinctively reach out to her when I saw what was happening. Luckily, I caught my own footing, and Melody had her other set of clothes to change her back into, so we were able to capture a few more portraits. But poor Brenna!!!





Thank you again, Melody and Brian, for having me photograph your family! These girls are growing so fast - I can't believe how much bigger they are than last fall!

Welcome Makenzie!

Makenzie was born on April 26th, 2009 to Stephanie and Josh. She is just about three weeks old for our portrait session. I arrived to a wide awake little girl and we were able to capture a few portraits of those beautiful eyes.




But soon, she started to fade and it was time for a nap.






Finally, a couple of Stephanie and Makenzie together. Unfortunately Josh had to work, but we will be sure to include him next time.




Makenzie is also the cousin to Madilyn, whose newborn portraits we did earlier this year - I know these cousins will be close.

Also, this shoot was very neat for me, as this is my first client where I photographed their wedding, back in June of 2007, and now their first baby. It is so exciting to see my clients' families grow! Thank you again, Stephanie and Josh, I am looking forward to seeing you again.