{"id":2063,"date":"2009-02-01T22:44:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T05:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2009-02-01T22:44:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T05:44:54","slug":"colorado-springs-family-photographer-oplove-session-palmer-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/colorado-springs-family-photographer-oplove-session-palmer-park\/","title":{"rendered":"colorado springs family photographer &#124; oplove session &#124; palmer park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are several great charity organizations that photographers can donate their services to.\u00a0 I volunteer with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NILMDTS <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oplove.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpLove<\/a>, which both coincidentally have their headquarters in Colorado.\u00a0 They are both fantastic ways to give back, and if you&#8217;re a photographer looking for ways to help, definitely check out these organizations!\u00a0 I know they always need more volunteers!<\/p>\n<p>Operation Love Reunited focuses on providing photography services to families of deployed military members.\u00a0 I love seeing how strong military families are, and today&#8217;s family was no exception!\u00a0 <span>Araceli, <\/span><span>Alondra, and Aliveigh were great at our portrait session today, in spite of the cold weather!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2066 alignnone\" title=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coloradospringsfamilyphotographer1.jpg\" alt=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer1\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>You know how I love to photograph little boys?\u00a0 I also love to photograph <em>sisters<\/em>.\u00a0 These two are awesome sisters.\u00a0 Check out how they&#8217;re holding hands&#8211;I didn&#8217;t tell them to do that!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2073\" title=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coloradospringsfamilyphotographer7.jpg\" alt=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer7\" width=\"582\" height=\"853\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tickling your little sister is pretty much mandatory:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2074\" title=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coloradospringsfamilyphotographer8.jpg\" alt=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer8\" width=\"582\" height=\"853\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I had to put that one in a storyboard series:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2067\" title=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer1-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coloradospringsfamilyphotographer1-1.jpg\" alt=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer1-1\" width=\"702\" height=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I love this shot of their awesome mom!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2072\" title=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coloradospringsfamilyphotographer6.jpg\" alt=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer6\" width=\"582\" height=\"853\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2071\" title=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coloradospringsfamilyphotographer5.jpg\" alt=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer5\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>Ready for my favorite shot from the day? This is from their cute little family cheer:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2068\" title=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coloradospringsfamilyphotographer2.jpg\" alt=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer2\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>The focus of OpLove sessions is supposed to be on the military\/patriotic aspect, so we covered that, too:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2064\" title=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coloradospringsfamilyphotographer9.jpg\" alt=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer9\" width=\"582\" height=\"853\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>They all had dog-tag style necklaces:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2077\" title=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coloradospringsfamilyphotographer01.jpg\" alt=\"coloradospringsfamilyphotographer01\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thanks for braving the cold morning with me today!\u00a0 I look forward to showing you the rest of the photos next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several great charity organizations that photographers can donate their services to.\u00a0 I volunteer with NILMDTS and OpLove, which both coincidentally have their headquarters in Colorado.\u00a0 They are both fantastic ways to give back, and if you&#8217;re a photographer looking for ways to help, definitely check out these organizations!\u00a0 I know they always need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,91],"tags":[183,155],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-portrait-photographer-colorado-springs","category-photography-tips","tag-colorado-springs-family-photographer","tag-palmer-park"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","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=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}