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Hello! I'm a Colorado Springs wedding photographer and portrait photographer. I travel all over the country to document the
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December 29, 2006
Mike, smugly anticipating his 90’s edition Trivial Pursuit victory
Weston-super-Mare, England
December 28, 2006
Last night, Mike’s best friend, Howard, had a party at his house in Weston. I had a great time, despite my complete lack of knowledge of British trivia from the 90s. I did know the answers to questions about Bill Clinton’s affairs, though, so I guess that’s something.
If you aren’t familiar with British Christmas traditions, then I’ll just say that yes, Mike always wears gold paper crowns to parties.
More photos from the party
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Weston-super-Mare
Somerset, England
December 28, 2006
Instead of digging our way out of yet another Colorado blizzard (yikes), Mike and I spent yesterday strolling along the beach on a lovely, sunny day here in England. Mike’s good friend, Howard, lives in Weston-super-Mare, a town on the waterfront, near Bristol. (”Super mare” in Latin means “on the sea.”) We went there yesterday to visit him, but first we took a sunset stroll on the beach.
Just by chance, it happened to be the only sunny and mild day we’ve had in a week, so it turned out to be a perfect day for a waterfront walk. I brought my trusty little point-and-shoot, and got some great pictures with it.
More beach sunset photos
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December 25, 2006
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Here’s a wish of health and happiness to you and your families!
Lots of love,
Charlotte and Mike
(and the dog and cats)
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December 24, 2006
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High Street
Wells, Somerset, England
December 23, 2006
We arrived yesterday in Mike’s hometown of Wells, Somerset. This beautiful town is where we got married last year, and it is particularly pretty at Christmastime.
This was the first year that I had seen this Christmas trees suspended over the High Street. Compare this photo to a similar one I took three Christmases ago.
A few more pictures of Wells this Christmastime
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I finally got the Covent Garden video uploaded! Here’s the background story:
Rebecca, Mike, and I went to Covent Garden on Friday afternoon, and stood around watching a street performer and his spectactors. Out of the blue, the performer grabbed Mike and pulled him into the act. The performer, a Charlie Chaplin imitator, wanted Mike to lift him up onto a platform. Mike tried to do it, but Charlie leaned hard against him to make it impossible. Then Charlie Chaplin made Mike get down on the ground and do pushups to get stronger. Mike was a great sport, and did pushups in front of hundreds of spectators!
I didn’t start the video until the pushups began, but here’s the rest of the act:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg4C1QDuzfc
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I finally got the Covent Garden video uploaded! Here’s the background story:
Rebecca, Mike, and I went to Covent Garden on Friday afternoon, and stood around watching a street performer and his spectactors. Out of the blue, the performer grabbed Mike and pulled him into the act. The performer, a Charlie Chaplin imitator, wanted Mike to lift him up onto a platform. Mike tried to do it, but Charlie leaned hard against him to make it impossible. Then Charlie Chaplin made Mike get down on the ground and do pushups to get stronger. Mike was a great sport, and did pushups in front of hundreds of spectators!
I didn’t start the video until the pushups began, but here’s the rest of the act:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg4C1QDuzfc
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December 23, 2006
Sunset over the Thames
December 22, 2006
2:53pm
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a sunset at a time beginning with a 2. We had a lovely Italian lunch along the river yesterday, and then we stepped outside and saw this sight. At least the days are getting longer now!
Yesterday Mike and I met with Rebecca Portsmouth, a photographer friend of mine from the Digital Wedding Forum. She lives in London, and we arranged a lunch together while I’m in town. We had so much fun with Rebecca that we spent the rest of the day with her! She is friendly and fun, and we loved getting to know her. After lunch, the three of us walked across the river at sunset, and then wandered around the Covent Garden area. We got coffee at a great little indie coffee shop, and then toured the National Portrait Gallery to see the winners of the Photographic Portrait Prize.
More photos from our day with Rebecca
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December 21, 2006
Vinopolis, a wine museum
London
December 21, 2006
Today Mike and I went with our friends Karen and Demetri to a wine museum in London. We tried Israeli wine, Chinese wine, and Thai wine, among many other things. It was a profoundly educational experience, as you’ll see. Here, have a drink and enjoy my tour of Vinopolis.
More from our afternoon at Vinopolis
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Our friends’ apartment complex in London
December 20, 2006
Thank god we made it to London yesterday without any problems! If we had scheduled our trip a day later, we’d have faced blizzard cancellations at Denver airport, and fog cancellations at Heathrow. What a mess! I have to admit, though, that I’m a little disappointed that I missed the biggest blizzard to hit Colorado since we moved there. I love a good snowstorm once in a while. I hope all my Colorado friends are doing ok today!
Instead of shoveling two feet of snow, I’m in London with great friends and endless choices of fun things to do. London has been one of my favorite places in the world, ever since I first traveled here at age 10. One of my fondest memories was my twelfth birthday, when my parents took me here to see “Cats.” This trip is my tenth time in London, but I’ve done only a tiny percentage of the things I want to do and see here. our good friends Karen and Demetri recently moved here from New York, so London is even more fun for us now that they live here.
This afternoon we’re headed to a wine museum! But first, Mike and Demetri have some XBox to play. While they shoot each other and blow stuff up, I thought I’d post a couple pictures. We took a few snapshots with my point-and-shoot yesterday–nothing spectacular, but still fun.
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December 18, 2006
From a sample guestbook featuring Brienna and Kyle
In the new year, I plan to emphasize photo guestbooks as one of my favorite products. I love these books, and I’d like to make enough beautiful samples to show my clients how great they are. The idea is that couples use their engagement portraits in custom photobooks, which they display at their wedding reception. Guests sign in the white spaces surrounding the photos. Guests love looking through these books, and after the wedding, the couple is left with a beautiful photo book filled with greetings from their loved ones.
Here are the layouts from a book I designed last week. It will be a 20-page, matte, fine art book.
More layouts from this guestbook
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Twilight in Breckenridge, Colorado
December 16, 2006
Saturday was our first ski day of the season, and ouch, I’m still recovering. I’ve gotten all out of shape in the last 9 months or so! It felt great to be out on the slopes again, enjoying the sunny Colorado winter weather and feeling the snow whoosh by.
I brought my new point-and-shoot camera, but I completely forgot to take pictures while we were skiing! I remembered when we got to the parking lot and unloaded our stuff, so I took a few pictures of Breckenridge at night. We went out for burritos and margaritas, and then had chocolate crepes by a fire pit. It was a great day all around.
A few more pictures of Breckenridge
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December 17, 2006
From the wedding album of Jenny and Mark
Jenny and Mark recently ordered their album from their Washington, DC wedding. Here are some of the layouts from their book. It will be a 40-page, 12″x12″, flush-mount leather album.
More layouts from their album
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December 14, 2006
From the wedding album of Andrea and Chris
I’ve been busy designing albums these last few weeks. Here are some of the layouts from the wedding of Andrea and Chris. It will be a 60-page, 10″x10″, glossy Asuka Book EX.
Some more layouts from their album
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I got a new camera for Christmas! My parents encouraged me to open their present early, and I’m so glad I did. Thanks, Mom and Dad!!
This Canon G7 is vastly superior to my old point-and-shoot. That camera was four years old, and I’ve been so disappointed with it that I didn’t even carry it with me anymore. I’ve skipped out on lots of opportunities to take pictures of family, friends, and our daily lives, because it’s just too much hassle to lug my big camera gear around. This new point-and-shoot is great, and I hope to have it with me at all times now. Here are some of its amazing features:
– 10 megapixels
– image stabilzer
– ISOs from 80-1600
– 6x optical zoom
– 1 cm macro (blew my mind)
– hot shoe for external flash
– face recognition with evaluative metering
– video (fun!)
– full automatic, semi-auto, and manual setting options
This morning I took the camera to a coffee get-together with some of my Denver photographer friends. We had a lot of fun as always, and they seemed to enjoy my new camera as much as I do. Hey, DWF gang, I’ll see you at the next coffee club! The drive is totally worth it.
Some of the first pictures from my new G7
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December 13, 2006
Mina and Chris are in this month’s Missouri print edition of The Knot magazine! We photographed their gorgeous wedding last year in St. Louis, and it’s fun to see their romantic story in print.
You can read their story and see photos here.
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Mina and Chris are in this month’s Missouri print edition of The Knot magazine! We photographed their gorgeous wedding last year in St. Louis, and it’s fun to see their romantic story in print.
You can read their story and see photos here.
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December 12, 2006
Little me, my mom, and my dad
My grandfather’s house in Montana
Summer, 1982
My mom sent me this picture the other day, and I love it! It’s a picture that my Aunt Gayle took the summer that my mom learned how to french braid my hair. She turned out to be quite good at it, but only when she got to use four hands.
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December 9, 2006
Santa, Mike, Ally, and me
Colorado Springs Humane Society
December 9, 2006
We took Ally to meet Santa today! She started the day with a romp through Bear Creek dog park, and then she visited Santa at the same Humane Society where we first met her two years ago. There is a great group of people there at the Colorado Springs Humane Society. They gave her treats and lots of affection, and Santa himself was wonderfully patient and friendly. Maybe next year I’ll volunteer there to help with the picture taking.
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