Alex and Natalie’s engagement was one of those rare instances when planning, passion and a little bit of luck come together to create something truly magical.   Alex reached out to me the Monday before the Chicago couple landed in Oregon for their annual Bend Brew Fest trip with grand ideas of surprising his girlfriend […]

  Cammy & Ryan are a couple that I clicked with right off the bat.  We’ve all lived in Colorado, San Diego, and now Oregon; they’re also dog people and animal lovers (Cammy used to work for the San Diego wild animal park, and they share their home with their Swiss Mountain dog).  We barely […]

Joscelyn and Jeff…What can I say about these two amazing people!  From their incredibly warm hospitality, to witnessing the final glow of the aspens changing during their engagement shoot, to snowboarding with Joscelyn on a powder day, to Joscelyn getting me so stoked on Bend, Oregon that I just up and moved (with my beautiful […]

I recently got my first taste of the lush  Pacific Northwest rainforests that cover much of Oregon.  I’ve experienced tropical rainforests on trips deep into Mexico, but the concept of rainforests in USA, let alone in the northwestern corner of the country, is such a change from the dry tundras of Colorado that i’ve grown […]

Spending the past 5 years in Colorado nestled up against the Front Range mountains, it’s easy to forget that you lose the best part of that dreamy golden hour sunlight everyone on the west coast is so familiar with.  Granted, Colorado has some beautiful lighting, but you need to get HIGH to get out of the […]

Over the past 5 years, I’ve met some incredible people–especially my beautiful girlfriend and partner in crime, Emma–and have had my mind blown on numerous occasions by the beauty of the Rocky Mountains.  I have met so many wonderful brides (one of which further inspired me to look towards Oregon–thank you Joscelyn!), and have worked […]

Hailey & Steven’s Flagstaff Amphitheater wedding in sunny Boulder, Colorado was anything but that.  It’s extremely rare to see the Flatirons covered in a PNW-style mist, transporting everyone in the area to what feels like a different time and part of the country.  The couple got married on a brisk, fresh and wintry fall day. […]

It’s been a very busy year, though I haven’t updated my photography site in quite some time.   I decided to take some ‘me’ time from the social media game, and resist that ever-increasing urge to engage in the race-to-the-blog that I found myself in for so many years.  With that said, I have some amazing […]

  Kasey & Mike got married on a picturesque, misty fall day in Boulder, Colorado.   Wedgewood Boulder Creek provided the background to this couple’s romantic destination wedding in Boulder.  Their friends and families flew in for the destination event, from San Diego, Texas and beyond.

Elorie called me up on a random wednesday in September and shared a secret with me;  the family photoshoot we had planned on doing this fall had now become her surprise wedding!  You see:  the couple originally hired me to shoot their wedding this past spring, but circumstances and the couple’s hectic schedules were not […]