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Engaged and on Mile High Bride… Brandon and Christie

04.12.12

I got this awesome email from the talented photographer Claire of Rouxby where she mentioned she dug my photos and wanted a 2nd shooter at a certain wedding… that wedding is of Brandon and Christie. So she flew into Denver for an afternoon engagement session where I tagged along slinging so

me film. Now… it was kind of a crazy day… some serious wind was happening… like 80mph wind gusts. The road that I needed to take to meet these folks was closed down and when we all arrived we realized that we were going to be freezing cold with dirt and dust blasting us. We made it quick, there wasn’t much talking or hanging out. It was… get out of the truck and lean into the wind, we should be safe cause no one is wearing these fancy pants.

Along with this quick outdoor session we realized that there was a place close by that we could shoot indoors… well, as soon as we got there and I snapped off a couple shots my wife calls me and is in labor with our 4th little one. Needless to say I asked her over the phone… “So I should probably pack my stuff up and meet you at the hospital?” — it ended up being false labor:)

To top it off, Holly over at Mile High Bride has featured a set from the shoot on the blog!! Go check’em out HERE.

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Bryce – I followed the link. I love the one of her standing on top of the Volvo. Ha! Nice, man.

BP

Holly – Thanks for the mention!

Jason Nava & Jolene Shima

04.04.12

Winter is my least favorite season. I tend to slow down, mind and body. Hibernate I guess. Even my creativity tends to take a back seat although this past winter I tried my best to push through and shoot as much as I could schedule. I’ve had my eye on these two folks for a while, their look is just so awesome along with the fact that one of my really good friends here in Colorado grew up with Jason in California… somehow we all found out about this weird connection.

This was one of those fairly last minute shoots as we were racing against the clock, Jason and Jolene were both set to move to the great city of L.A. within a couple weeks so our window of opportunity landed on the coldest day of Colorado’s 2011-12 winter. I picked them up about 9am and it was 11 degrees and when we finished our “lets hurry up and shoot” shoot the temp only rose a couple degrees. They were champs, I felt self-concious and kinda bad that I was putting them through this madness haha.

By far, these are two of the finest people I’ve ever met. That’s a strong statement seeing I only spent a wee bit of time with them but you’ve probably met people like these… you just walk away inspired. They have an energy and authenticity about them that is rare these days. And they were just so damn cute together, they’re love overflows. And since this shoot they’ve gotten engaged! So happy for them!

Well, here are some shots for yah. Some of the guys at ELC Mens were kind enough to donate some items for the day, check’em out. I was pretty worried that because of the cold my film would get a little gnarly but it held up besides some weird color shifts I had to wrestle with… and yay for spring bein here now, yah?