{"id":1732,"date":"2008-12-01T10:53:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T17:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2008-12-01T10:53:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T17:53:58","slug":"colorado-engagement-portrait-photographer-vail-and-snow-monica-and-dan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/colorado-engagement-portrait-photographer-vail-and-snow-monica-and-dan\/","title":{"rendered":"colorado engagement portrait photographer | vail and snow | monica and dan"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been wanting to do a winter engagement shoot in the snow for a long time, and Nic and I just got our chance!\u00a0 Monica and Dan will be getting married in Vail in September, and came into town to check things out this last week.<\/p>\n

Nic and I were watching the weather closely all week…but the weather forecasts LIED.\u00a0 We had quite the snow showers (and some of the worst traffic of my life–which, since I’m from Seattle, says a LOT), but the pictures were totally worth the 10+ hours Nic and I spent in the car that day!<\/p>\n

Monica and Dan are from Texas.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure they don’t get this snow covered at home.\u00a0 Maybe we should put a disclaimer on it for the Texans that this isn’t just a really bad case of dandruff… ;)<\/p>\n

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(Sometimes my auto watermark action does funny things.\u00a0 But I have post Thanksgiving turkey coma disease and can’t be bothered to fix it today.)<\/p>\n

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Nic’s shot.\u00a0 I always know he’s got a great angle on it when he tells me that I better bring it because he just nailed the shot…<\/p>\n

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Consider it ‘broughten.’\u00a0 (Okay, totally different spot, but it should still count…)<\/p>\n

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Nic’s idea to stick Monica’s arms inside Dan’s jacket–I *love* it!\u00a0 And I love Dan’s expression!<\/p>\n

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One of my favorites.\u00a0 I’m a sucker for Christmas lights!<\/p>\n

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As we were discussing where to place Monica and Dan for this shot I said to Nic “we’ll put then right there and [blah blah blah]…do you see it?”\u00a0 [insert blank expression from Nic]\u00a0 “Doesn’t matter–I see it.”\u00a0 Which is exactly the thing about photography-you can put five people in the same spot, and they’ll all see completely different shots.\u00a0 So make sure you go with what you<\/em> see–don’t worry about other people, because they aren’t seeing what you’re seeing!\u00a0 And this, right here, is EXACTLY what I saw in my head.\u00a0 I love it!<\/p>\n

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Here comes another favorite.\u00a0 It’s definitely in the “all time faves” folder in my head.\u00a0 Back at the lodge in front of the fire…<\/p>\n

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Quick outfit change and then it was back into the snow!\u00a0 (It’s not a Colorado mountain scene without some Aspens!)<\/p>\n

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A little different processing on this one.\u00a0 If I didn’t cinnamon up at least one it just wouldn’t be me at the Photoshop helm!<\/p>\n

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My shot…<\/p>\n

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Nic’s version (I am seriously digging the tilt)…<\/p>\n

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Last one!<\/p>\n

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This would have been the best shoot ever for behind-the-scenes shots, what with us being up-to-our-knees in snow most of the time, but…ummmm…we failed pretty miserably to catch the behind-the-scenes stuff, we were concentrating so hard on the in-front-of-the-scenes pics.\u00a0 (That and not dropping any equipment in the snow.\u00a0 Thank God the D3 is weather-proof is all I’m gonna say!)<\/p>\n

A big thanks to Monica and Dan for being such great troopers in the snow and inviting us out to Vail!\u00a0 We could have spent the whole day shooting–Monica and Dan were up for anything and you couldn’t ask for a better setting!\u00a0 We hope you love this sneak peek and we look forward to seeing you again in September!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been wanting to do a winter engagement shoot in the snow for a long time, and Nic and I just got our chance!\u00a0 Monica and Dan will be getting married in Vail in September, and came into town to check things out this last week. Nic and I were watching the weather closely […]<\/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":[222,233,234],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engagement-sessions","tag-engagement-portrait-photographer","tag-snow","tag-vail-colorado"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","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=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}