The difficult part about this time of year is it’s too easy to tell when I’m behind on my blogging! In the summer I can get away with it . . . so lets just pretend it’s warm and sunny with pretty fall colors, and not negative 5 billion, OK?
About a month ago my girlfriend was house sitting for her parents. Since all of their children are grown up and out of the house, the plethora of fallen leaves in their backyard were untouched. When I saw the beautiful back yard full of leaves, I knew that I needed to do an impromptu shoot. I had seen pictures of my friend Issac’s boy on the old camera phone during some of our mountain bike adventures, and knew that he would be just the candidate!
I did quite a bit of racking and surprised Isaac, Erin and Logan with a gigantic pile of leaves. In fact, I was a bit over-zealous. I thought that I remembered Logan to be 4 years old . . . WRONG! As it turns out he’s two and change, and the leaf pile was taller than he was! I think in this next shot he look like a little stuffed animal, almost too cute to be real!
Another reason that the yard is such an epic location, they have an old car buried in the trees. I’m for sure going to have to do another shoot with it in the future.
Christmas card photo! Oh shoot, did I ruin the surprise?
For the record, I also predict young Logan will grow to be an awesome mountain biker, just like his dad. Never hurts to plant the seed early on! Check out Logan’s 2 wheeler! Pure Boulder child, 300 dollar German wood bike!
At this point in time, I’m really starting to wonder if Logan isn’t some sort of reincarnated movie star. How does he know to work the camera like that?
“Hello, North Face? Yes, this is Steve Z, world famous child modeling agent. I have a boy here who you have to check out . . . ”
Last weekend I was lucky enough to escape the snow in Boulder for a destination wedding at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida. Rebecca, Todd and I first met over the holidays last year when we shot their engagement photos. That photo shoot was a nice start, but it was nothing compared to the epic-ness of their wedding day! Check out the venue, First Class all the way!
We started out the day with a generous helping of creative detail shots, because we all know how much I love those! But after an hour of arranging inanimate objects it was on to people, people, people! We shot a few bridal portraits then to the First Site. The Ceremony was set to go down at sunset, so we needed to have the couple see each other earlier in the day so we could shoot some fun portraits while there was still available light.
After the happy couple met and exchanged some smoochie boochies, it was on to my favorite part of the day, creative portraits with the couple. I usually try to mix up some traditional shots with some wacky ones . . . I like to show the unique ones on the blog!
This was my first wedding with my all new Nikon camera gear. It performed admirably . . . whew! I think my favorite new lens is the 14-24 zoom. I was able to take some cool wide shots. Like the next four for example.
The ceremony and reception sites were pretty over the top. The ceremony was right at sunset on a lawn that rolls right up to the beach and the Atlantic Ocean. The reception was held in this enormous dome of a room called The Circle Room.
It was so hard deciding which images to pick to show on the blog. I wound up showing a lot of the scenic and composed photos because I thought they were visually striking. But don’t let that fool ya, there were more touching moments captured than you can shake a stick at!
To see even more pictures from this awesome event, click on the title slide below and watch a 5 minute slideshow. To view the slide show on its own page, CLICK HERE.
Slideshow music used by permission of local Boulder rock heros MENISKUS. Enjoy!
A couple of months ago I ventured out to the Boulder train yard for an engagement shoot with Anna and Mike–the coolest couple ever–to see that shoot click here (for their wedding photos visit my wedding blog). ANYWAY, when Cameron came to me for his senior photos, I thought we’d take a trip back out East again. Here’s a selection of the coolness we came away with.
Tell me senior portraits on top of a train car aren’t the raddest thing ever.
Cameron chose one of the tamer photos for his yearbook. I loved this shoot because I feel the selection of photos that came out of it are so varied and dynamic.
As we neared the end of the photo shoot, I thought I should make some good use of the awesome aviators Cameron brought with him…
We caught the last of the evening sun and good thing! The sun peaking over the rock Cameron’s sitting on makes these photos pretty epic when it comes to senior portraits!
Three days of shooting at the Sage Software Summit culminated with a fun show featuring performers from Cirque Du Soleil. It was really a great change of pace for the audience as well as this photographer. These talented acrobats balanced, twirled, flipped, and entertained. This was a great test of the low light capabilities of my new Nikon equipment. I’m really pleased with the results!
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The above photos are just a few of the exciting moments. To view the Evening of Cirque Slideshow, click on the title slide below. To view the slide show on its own page, CLICK HERE. Slideshow music is used by permission of local Colorado artists Something Underground.
During the middle of the Sage Summit Corporate Event, I set up a full studio portrait photography setup on location in one of the rooms in the Colorado Convention Center. Sage was looking for real life portraits of their customers and their employees for their advertising and marketing materials. They recognize that stock photos look fake because . . . well they are! So we took some professional and mostly serious portraits and business head shots. Part of my style to encourage regular people to relax and take beautiful and natural photos is to joke around. I encourage people to take some goofy and fun photos. Let me tell ya, some of the Sage employees really got into it. Nothing breaks up a week-long software convention like dressing up like a construction worker I suppose! I thought that it would be fun to post some of these outtakes here on the old blog! So, enjoy!
The annual Sage Summit presented by Sage Software rolled into Denver for this years edition. I spent three days trekking back and forth between Boulder and Denver capturing the photo action. One of the things that Sage wanted chronicled was there signage. I of course through some arty flair into the mix!
The Sage Summit is a pretty monster event, taking over the entire Colorado Convention Center for the good part of a week. Sage kicked off their event with a Fun Run, graced with none other than the American Athletic Icon of Bruce Jenner! I found out that apparently Bruce is famous amongst the younger set as the dad from Keeping Up With The Kardashians, one of those MTV reality shows!
I of course had to take the obligatory ’self portrait with the celebrity’ shot!
The Summit drew thousands of attendees from around the country who came to learn more about Sage’s products, take classes, and check out the wares at an industry trade show.
The featured event was the Key Note Ceremony featuring Bruce Jenner in the Wells Fargo Theater. VIPs from Sage spoke about the company vision and recognized their Customer Award Winners. Bruce delivered a spirited Key Note Presentation. It was quite an animated performance, as the re-told the tale of how he went from a nobody to a world-record-breaking decathlete by positive attitude and 110% dedication.
