{"id":2262,"date":"2009-03-12T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2009-03-12T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T02:46:00","slug":"colorado-springs-engagement-portrait-photographer-manitou-springs-melissa-and-dustin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/colorado-springs-engagement-portrait-photographer-manitou-springs-melissa-and-dustin\/","title":{"rendered":"colorado springs engagement portrait photographer &#124; manitou springs &#124; melissa and dustin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa and Dustin are so cute!\u00a0 I was excited to get to see them again this past weekend&#8211;we really do have the nicest people as clients!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Melissa and Dustin share my love of books, so I planned to take them to the adorable Black Cat Books in Manitou.\u00a0 We had a great time inside&#8211;I love hanging out with people who love books as much as I do!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2265 aligncenter\" title=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs02.jpg\" alt=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs02\" width=\"782\" height=\"666\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The bookstore is located in an old dairy (I KNOW!).\u00a0 I shot this through a very old window:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2266\" title=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs03\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs03.jpg\" alt=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs03\" width=\"582\" height=\"853\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This really is the book Dustin was reading to Melissa.\u00a0 It had some excellent advice.\u00a0 ;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2267\" title=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs04\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs04.jpg\" alt=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs04\" width=\"782\" height=\"606\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2268\" title=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs05\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs05.jpg\" alt=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs05\" width=\"782\" height=\"569\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Walking around town&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2269\" title=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs06\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs06.jpg\" alt=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs06\" width=\"582\" height=\"853\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So cute!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2264\" title=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs01.jpg\" alt=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs01\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2270\" title=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs07\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs07.jpg\" alt=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs07\" width=\"782\" height=\"624\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(By the way, I *love* Melissa&#8217;s polka dots!!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2271\" title=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs08\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs08.jpg\" alt=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs08\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Melissa has the best, most joyful personality!!\u00a0 I love her smile and laugh!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2272\" title=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs09\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs09.jpg\" alt=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs09\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Joy&#8221; has been on this wall for a month or two&#8211;I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out how to incorporate it into a shoot.\u00a0 I really like this angle!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2273\" title=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs10.jpg\" alt=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs10\" width=\"782\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We had some BEAUTIFUL light at Garden of the Gods!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2274\" title=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs11\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs11.jpg\" alt=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs11\" width=\"582\" height=\"853\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2275\" title=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs12.jpg\" alt=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs12\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We almost killed Dustin with this one!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2276\" title=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs13.jpg\" alt=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs13\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Melissa and Dustin, we absolutely love working with you!!\u00a0 You are such great people and we&#8217;re thrilled that we get to photograph your wedding!\u00a0 We know it will be chalk full of love and joy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A behind the scenes shot of Nic working his magic:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2263\" title=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs14\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs14.jpg\" alt=\"engagement_portrait_photographer_colorado_springs14\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa and Dustin are so cute!\u00a0 I was excited to get to see them again this past weekend&#8211;we really do have the nicest people as clients! Melissa and Dustin share my love of books, so I planned to take them to the adorable Black Cat Books in Manitou.\u00a0 We had a great time inside&#8211;I love [&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":[180,173,172],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engagement-sessions","tag-colorado-springs-engagement-photographer","tag-garden-of-the-gods","tag-manitou-springs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","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=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}