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 Gebre-Mariam Family

I have done several portrait session with them now, including one a year ago, when Noelle was still pregnant with Marco. I can’t believe he is almost a year old already – boy how fast they grow!

We started out with a few portraits outside of their home. The tree in this one was given to Luca, their oldest son, as a present when he was born.



We wanted to get a Colorado flavor in a few of the portraits, so we headed out to get the Flatirons in the background. These boys are just adorable – and Brook and Noelle always look fantastic!






And then we headed back to the house to capture a few in front of the Christmas tree.




Marco just has the cutest cheeks.




And Luca is becoming such a little man.




Last, I just had to include this one. Luca and Marco were playing and Marco just grabbed a big handful of Luca’s hair and pulled. He meant no harm, but it was just so funny!



Thanks again Noelle and Brook - you have such a wonderful family!

Estella, Nick and Tommy

Estella found me back in mid-November through one of the September weddings I photographed - it is always neat to have new people referred to you through previous clients. It feels like an extra special complement somehow.

Estella and Nick were looking for some fall color in their portraits so we headed to Cheesman park down in Denver. What a blast hanging out with these two - you could see the love they had for each other. And I am a total dog person,so Tommy was tons of fun!








Halfway through we took a break to let Tommy run around and play for a bit, so I thought I'd grab some cute action shots.




And then, back to business. I love this shot of Tommy.

The Zainy Twins

Zainy - what a great last name!!

Laila and Kai Zainy are the twin babies of Jolene and Heider. Jolene is truly one of the kindest people on earth and Heider can crack anyone up! Honestly, just a fantastic family. Jolene asked me to photograph the twins in early November (yes, I'm still playing blog catch up), when they were about six months old to get some photos for Christmas cards. I happily obliged her.

Laila and Kai are really just adorable. It was still nice weather out, even though it was November 9th, so we took a few outside first.





For some reason, Kai just loved the taste of his mittens.



Laila just played as cute as a button.



We then headed inside to take a few of the twins.




A couple of Kai - I can tell he is going to be devilishly handsome as he grows up, just like his Dad.




And a couple of Laila - who I know will be beautiful just like her Mom. I bet she is breaking hearts already with that smile.




Last, one photo of the family.


Thanks again Zainy family for having me spend the afternoon with all of you!

The Kimberlin Family

I am still playing catch up with my blog, but I will get there, I promise! Back on November 1st I had the opportunity to spend a couple hours photographing the Kimberlin family at Chautauqua Park in Boulder. Melody and Brian have twins, Audrey and Brenna, who are just about a year old now. Melody is one of the kindest, warmest people I know, and it was wonderful to spend time with her and her family on a strangely warm November day - I think it hit 70 degrees that day! Although very odd for November it gave us perfect weather to have the twins outside in the beautiful fall colors. I think they got the perfect fall color weekend this year! First, here are a few of the whole family and the girls together:








Audrey and Brenna are both such beautiful little girls. Brenna is very active, always wanting to move around so photographing her can be a challenge, but I loved chasing the girls around. I just love her big blue eyes!







Audrey has cheeks that I just always want to reach out and pinch!





I love the following two pictures together - both girls were adorable in their dresses and I love the contrast with the grass.




And last, I love both of these series of pictures. The girls were getting a bit tired so we took a break and Brian started tossing Audrey up in the air. She just loved it so I grabbed a few shots of the two of them, and thought it would be great to have matching photos of Melody and Audrey.




Thank you again Melody and Brian for spending time with me! You are a beautiful family, and it was a pleasure to photograph all of you.