{"id":2380,"date":"2009-04-13T16:42:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T23:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2009-04-13T16:42:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T23:42:37","slug":"washington-tulip-festival-colorado-springs-portrait-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/washington-tulip-festival-colorado-springs-portrait-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"washington tulip festival &#124; colorado springs portrait photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I was looking forward to most during my trip back to Seattle was meeting my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelludwigphotography.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel<\/a> in Skagit Valley to visit the Tulip Festival.\u00a0 Seattle has had a brutal spring, so we were about a week early for the tulips.\u00a0 We tried not to cry over it too much, though, instead enjoying the fields of daffodils that Rachel and Will were dressed perfectly for!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2382\" title=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings01.jpg\" alt=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings01\" width=\"581\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2381\" title=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings13.jpg\" alt=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings13\" width=\"581\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rachel and I have been friends for five years, and this is only the third time we&#8217;ve gotten together!\u00a0 But, thanks to technology, that doesn&#8217;t matter at all!\u00a0 Between instant messaging, message boards, and email it&#8217;s almost like she&#8217;s lived next door this whole time (instead of Canada).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2385\" title=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings04\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings04.jpg\" alt=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings04\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Don&#8217;t you want her to be your friend, too?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2391\" title=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings10.jpg\" alt=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings10\" width=\"782\" height=\"623\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2387\" title=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings06\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings06.jpg\" alt=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings06\" width=\"581\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2386\" title=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings05\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings05.jpg\" alt=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings05\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2384\" title=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings03\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings03.jpg\" alt=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings03\" width=\"782\" height=\"623\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rachel brought her youngest baby with her (who was an incredible trooper and put up with our late night chatting [they eventually kicked us out of the restaurant] and marathon shopping like no other baby could).\u00a0 He also happens to be crazy cute!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2389\" title=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings08\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings08.jpg\" alt=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings08\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rachel is a wonderful momma.\u00a0 I go to her for advice\/commiseration all the time!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2388\" title=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings07\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings07.jpg\" alt=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings07\" width=\"581\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You can always tell a bad-arse photographer by her broken-arse lens:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2392\" title=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings11\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings11.jpg\" alt=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings11\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I love these two shots because it&#8217;s totally universal.\u00a0 On the left we have the face that all photographers ACTUALLY make while looking at their camera LCD.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a thinking face.\u00a0 On the right we have the face that photographers make when they&#8217;re told &#8220;hey&#8211;smile&#8211;this is gonna be a cute shot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2393\" title=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings12.jpg\" alt=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings12\" width=\"782\" height=\"624\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is one of my favorite shots of the day&#8211;proof that the outting had very little to do with the little people we brought along:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2390\" title=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings09\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings09.jpg\" alt=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings09\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But since he was so cute in his yellow rain slicker, I got a few shots of Will.\u00a0 This one is SO Will.\u00a0 He is what grandmothers euphamistically call &#8220;busy&#8221; and mothers call &#8220;the reason every drink I have after 1pm is spiked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2383\" title=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings02.jpg\" alt=\"weddingphotographerdenvercoloradosprings02\" width=\"581\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I was looking forward to most during my trip back to Seattle was meeting my friend Rachel in Skagit Valley to visit the Tulip Festival.\u00a0 Seattle has had a brutal spring, so we were about a week early for the tulips.\u00a0 We tried not to cry over it too much, though, 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