{"id":1451,"date":"2008-10-05T13:03:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T20:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2008-10-05T13:03:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T20:03:57","slug":"colorado-springs-engagement-portrait-photographers-garden-of-the-gods-lisa-and-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/colorado-springs-engagement-portrait-photographers-garden-of-the-gods-lisa-and-dave\/","title":{"rendered":"colorado springs engagement portrait photographers &#124; garden of the gods &#124; lisa and dave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa and Dave had originally planned to have their engagement shoot at Rampart Reservoir, but rain forced us to change our plans and we met at Garden of the Gods, instead.\u00a0 We are so grateful that they were flexible and ran around with us as we tried to beat the rain!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We caught some fall colors, which is always fairly tricky to time or predict!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1454 aligncenter\" title=\"_mg_0746\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0746.jpg\" alt=\"engagement portrait photographers\" width=\"582\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1453\" title=\"_mg_0724\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0724.jpg\" alt=\"engagement portrait photographer colorado \" width=\"582\" height=\"802\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1456\" title=\"_mg_0884\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0884.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs portrait photographer\" width=\"582\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you go to Garden of the Gods for pictures, it&#8217;s criminal not to visit this spot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1457\" title=\"_mg_0889\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0889.jpg\" alt=\"garden of the gods engagement pictures\" width=\"782\" height=\"569\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1459\" title=\"_mg_0901\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0901.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs engagement portrait\" width=\"582\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We also visited High Point at the park, and it was cute, because it was where Dave had intended to propose to Lisa!\u00a0 (It was Easter, though, and if you remember it was snowing and freezing cold, and Lisa didn&#8217;t want to get out of the car.\u00a0 [I remember that day because after visiting family, we went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner.\u00a0 Texas Roadhouse is my favorite place in the world, so any time I eat dinner there, the date and weather and what I was wearing are burned into my brain forever.])<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1462\" title=\"_mg_0918\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0918.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs portrait photographer\" width=\"582\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The top of Pikes Peak had a cloud around it, but it got a dusting of snow from the weather system that kept us out of Rampart Reservoir!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1452\" title=\"_mg_0940\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0940.jpg\" alt=\"engagement portrait photographer\" width=\"582\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I love this series of pictures!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1464\" title=\"_mg_0930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0930.jpg\" alt=\"portrait photographer\" width=\"582\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(This next shot is a great example of how changing your angle can totally change the background.\u00a0 I was standing in the same spot for both the previous photos and this next one&#8230;but in this one, I stood up from my crouch.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1465\" title=\"_mg_0933\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0933.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs engagement photographer\" width=\"582\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My photographer friends are always reminding me that I am SO LUCKY to live and photograph where we do.\u00a0 (Something I try to remember when I want to cry about the lack of beach photo opportunities!)\u00a0 A behind the scenes shot like this illustrates it nicely&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1455\" title=\"_mg_0883\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0883.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs photographer\" width=\"782\" height=\"569\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When we visited High Point, we were treated to this guy and his digiridoo.\u00a0 (It was pretty surreal.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1460\" title=\"_mg_0909\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"782\" height=\"569\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa and Dave had originally planned to have their engagement shoot at Rampart Reservoir, but rain forced us to change our plans and we met at Garden of the Gods, instead.\u00a0 We are so grateful that they were flexible and ran around with us as we tried to beat the rain! We caught some fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[222,173],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engagement-sessions","tag-engagement-portrait-photographer","tag-garden-of-the-gods"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}