The Steve Z Photography Blog

I was way pumped to shoot Jason and Katie’s wedding. We had a super fun engagement session where we rode cruiser bikes around town. This wedding was up in the mountains at the base of the Keystone ski resort. I even treated the girlfriend and myself to a condo stay in River Run, and did an epic mountain bike ride the next day. Yeeha.

I’ve never before shot a picture of a wedding dress that I thought looked like a jellyfish. I guess there is a first for everything. And I did manage to figure out a way to include bicycles into their wedding shoot as well. Bikes Bikes Bikes.

I had this cool shot set up with cool daylight streaming in from behind in the hallway of the Ski Tip Lodge. I told Katie to be overly dramatic. Bingo. Just like that.

The ceremony site was epic. The clouds came in and provided beautiful overcast skys and puffy clouds.

Recipe for beautiful photos of the couple: add one cup of mountain scenery, one tablespoon of wildflowers, a dash of photoshop textures, and two kids in love.

Sometimes I need to enlist the help of micro attendees to help me with my shenanigans.

In addition to unique getting ready shots, stunning ceremony landscapes and fabulous formals, the outdoor dancing shots in the bright sun were epic as well.

Third wedding blog post this week, yeah I’m rocking it out!!! Can I do my remaining three that are in the queue next week?!? I sure hope so, because then I’ll be caught up, and it will be champagne wishes and caviar dreams for me.

If you ever want to get on my good side, then you should text message me that you and your husband love me, like Anna does.  You could probably get in good with a lot of other people in this manner as well.

We kicked things off at the St. Julian Hotel in lovely Boulder, Colorado.  I got yelled at for sitting of the floor in the lobby shooting this next photo.  I hope they know that they shouldn’t get in the way of art . . . I’ve already got another wedding booked there in 2009.  C’mon, can’t you see how good she looks?!?!

And just in case you thought this was going to be an arty black and white blog entry . . . oh ho no!  Bring on the color at the Koenig Alumni House on the University of Colorado campus.

I’m such a sap, sometimes when I’m shooting uber-close-up photos of my couples crying during the vows, I get sucked in.  This was one of those times.

I found out that the night before their engagement shoot, they got in a big old fight, and that’s why they were so stiff during it.  No such problems getting in the mood today!  Anna and Mike like the funky shots, so I went hog wild.

Did I mention that we had a ton of fun?  Seriously.  Anna and Mike like to party.

Well I could stay here all night and post more photos, but I’ve got more more more weddings to edit.  I’ll leave you with a sampling of silly and sweet, in that order.  Anna and Mike are so in love it’s silly, and unplanned butt grabs are indubitably sweet.  Steve Z out.

Oh ya, one more thing . . . the return of the wedding slideshow. To view Anna and Mike’s slideshow on its own page, CLICK HERE.

I can’t believe that I haven’t posted anything on this blog this month, as the wedding whip has been cracking me all September. Well get ready for my best wedding posts to come here over the next couple weeks, because I’ve had awesome couples, awesome venues, and lots of wedding cake.

This wedding had the unusual twist that I was contacted by a woman looking for a wedding photographer for her Mom’s wedding! As you can tell by Mary’s photos, her daughter is clearly can’t be older than 5 years old. I can’t believe how young kids are getting cell phones these days.

But seriously, Erin (one of the daughters) is great, is probably the nicest girl on the entire planet, and is old enough to legally drink. Erin’s boyfriend better look out, she says she wants to hire me to shoot her own wedding really badly.

The grounds of the The Ranch had some super cool picture ops. I took some normal pictures first, but eventually gravitated towards my usual weirdness. They seemed to be having a good time no matter what I made them do!

I was a little concerned about the lighting conditions for the ceremony. The wedding was shot straight into a glaring sunset. I’m pretty happy with how the dramatic lighting turned out.

The reception was held in a beautiful indoor/outdoor dining area. I was pleasantly surprised that these guys came here ready to party! I have so many pictures of these guys laughing; it’s really great to see. You guys seem super happy together, so psyched for you both!

I also discovered a truism of wedding receptions. If you want people to dance, there is one sure-fired answer. It doesn’t matter, young or old, there are 5 letters to know. D-I-S-C-O.

I didn’t really do any getting ready shots, but I thought of a ring shot at the last minute. Another wedding in the books, tune back tomorrow when I return to good ol’ Boulder. Steve out.

This won’t be the most exciting post for regular blog readers I know. But straight up, studio business headshots are one of the talents that I have, so I want to throw in up here on the blog to let people know that it is part of the repertoire. I also have a traveling lighting kit so I can do these shots, full length portraits, and photo booths on location. Now that we have that taken care of, carry on!