bermuda (bermuda photographer)

Here are a few shots of my recent trip to Bermuda...  Zach and I went to help out his mom (who had a broken foot) and grandfather (who's in a wheelchair), while they were attending a conference there.  I am so in love with all the color! It was kind of chilly and windy, but still amazingly gorgeous! What a beautiful place.   I just can't travel enough.  Seriously. Just a reminder and BIG HINT that I will gladly travel to shoot your destination beach wedding!  Wink wink :)  Come on, you know you wanna...

In the Tea Room of our hotel.  Yes, we stayed in a hotel that had an actual specified Tea Room - so quaint and British.

Subversive sticker graffiti on the window of the oceanfront Louis Vuitton store.  To the person who affixed this sticker...whoever you are, wherever you are... call me, let's hang out.  I'm not even kidding.

I love Bermuda :)

. snowmageddon in gettysburg .

A few weeks ago, I flew out to Gettysburg to visit my lovely sister Beret who is a senior at Gettysburg College.  We had all sort of fun things planned and had even scouted out locations for some amazing shoots with her and her best friends / roommates, Allie and Gülce.  I mean, we're talking dinner plans, and yoga class plans, and spending the whole weekend shooting some senior college pics....  they were even going to do some bridal glamour modeling for me!  Little did we know that about 6 hours after I arrived, the East Coast would be slammed with "snowmageddon"... which honestly made me chuckle a little bit.  I mean, yeah, there was some snow, but coming from 8,000 feet in Colorado, 2 feet of snow is nothing at all.  I've had to go to school in much worse :)We managed to shoot for about an hour  before it got brutally cold - all these shots are taken within a one block radius of Beret and Allie and Gülce's apartment.  I'm stoked to be coming back out in May for their graduation.  Thanks ladies.  You are lovely and it was wonderful to stay with you!  And a huge thanks to Hannah for her movies, Super Bowl company, and her appreciation of Flor de Caña :)

I love this building SO much!

The stunning Gülce...

The lovely Allie...

And my beautiful, wonderful, outrageous sister Beret!

Isn't my sister amazingly gorgeous?!?!

I covet this door.

Hey hey!  I'll be back in Gettysburg graduation weekend for four or five days - so let me know if you want to do something fun while I'm out there! I can't wait to shoot out there more :)

. st. croix .

It has been so brutally unforgivingly cold lately here in Colorado, and I'm definitely starting to feel the winter blues and cabin fever set in.  Good thing I have some awesome photos of an awesome trip to look back on!  Almost as good as being there... almost :)  I'll say it again - I LOVED shooting in St. Croix!  Fun, colorful architecture, amazing sunny light, and, of course, my incredible clients :)  Here are a few personal photos from the trip to help transport you to a warmer place for a moment (at least mentally).

(Actually, I cheated... this was over Puerto Rico or one of the other islands on the way in to St. Croix.  But I still love this shot)

We were traveling at such a weird time.  Everything seemed deserted.  I don't know if I've ever seen the subways at DIA that empty!  My favorite part of the long day of travel was getting to ride the cool 10-seater little plane from St. Thomas over to St. Croix.  The plane was so small that they stashed our luggage in the wings, and weighed our carry-ons to make sure they were evenly distributed throughout the plane.  The shot above is taken from the back seat :)

The next shot is the view from our friends Haven and Matt's house.  Jealous!  When they moved in, they also found a whole cabinet full of cool retro liquor, which I was naturally fascinated by.

I guess it was "worm season"... the frangipani worms eat all the leaves and branches off of a certain tree, at the same time every year.  The trees are essentially stripped bare.  It was crazy how fast that happened - the worms would descend upon a tree by the hundreds.  If you put your ear up close, you can hear them crunching away.  The locals apparently hate them, but I thought they looked cool :)

Once again, a HUGE thank you to Haven and Matt for letting us stay with them!  I'm dying to go back right about now...

. fort christiansvaern .

When I was in St. Croix, I loved having the opportunity to visit Fort Christiansvaern in Christiansted.  There is so much cool history that's evident throughout this compound (Courtyard! Archways!  Color!  Right on the water!  Alexander Hamilton grew up here! Dungeons!  Cool windows!  Oceanfront cannons!)  I wandered around, my mouth pretty much drooling at the thought of shooting a session here.  I have maybe a thousand ideas for this place, and it costs all of, I don't know.. three dollars to get in to.  So, here's what you want to do.  You want to get married or do a Trash the Dress session.  You want some amazing amazing pictures.  At the same time, you want a vacation that's fun and off the beaten path, but you don't want to have to deal with the hassle of passports and visas.  You want to hire me to come back to St. Croix and shoot your wedding / Trash the Dress at Fort Christiansvaern. Trust me on this.  This is in your best interests.  Haha.  See?

The view from Fort Christainsvaern:

Yep... you know you wanna :)

. i love my job .

Going through customs on the way back home (yep, the one that made us miss the flight), the customs agent was apathetically flipping through my passport.  I've been through customs a hundred times, but this time, the agent decided to ask me what I did for a living."I'm a photographer,"  I said, sounding almost surprised, even to myself. Since I rarely introduce myself that way, it really hit me then : how incredibly cool that this is what I get to do for a living!

Then, the agent looking at my camera bag, "What's in here, please?"

"Camera equipment."

"It's ALL camera equipment?"

"Yeah," I answered.

"Is... this all you brought?" asked the dubious customs agent.

"Oh, no, um..I have clothes, too."

He pauses, and, looking me up and down, eventually says, "Hmm."  And, lets me through.  Ten minutes too late :)