{"id":3676,"date":"2010-03-22T18:38:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T01:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2010-03-22T18:38:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T01:38:29","slug":"engagement-portrait-photographer-colorado-springs-laura-and-dan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/engagement-portrait-photographer-colorado-springs-laura-and-dan\/","title":{"rendered":"engagement portrait photographer &#124; colorado springs &#124; laura and dan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are super observant, you might remember Laura from her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog\/colorado-springs-wedding-photographer-rockledge-inn-andrew-and-ellie\/\" target=\"_blank\">brother Andrew&#8217;s wedding<\/a> last summer!\u00a0 She was the beautiful best (wo)man, and I was so excited when she emailed and asked us if we&#8217;d be available to shoot her wedding this winter.\u00a0 I knew she would be so much fun to photograph again, and I wasn&#8217;t wrong!<\/p>\n<p>My Colorado readers of course already know this, but for those that live in less freakish areas, on Thursday the recorded high was 71 degrees&#8230;but that night a winter storm rolled it and it was snowing by Friday morning and by Friday afternoon it was bad enough that Nic was on a snow release from work!\u00a0 (Gotta love spring in Colorado!)\u00a0 We had about 5 inches of snow at the studio and I asked Laura and Dan if they would be interested in taking advantage of it.\u00a0 They were, and I can only imagine how much fun they didn&#8217;t have driving down here to the Springs and then out to the studio.\u00a0 Snow is always so exciting to catch, though, so I&#8217;m so glad they made the trek down here Friday night!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3693\" title=\"weddingengagementphotographercoloradosprings01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/weddingengagementphotographercoloradosprings012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Who doesn&#8217;t go swinging in the snow?!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"weddingengagementphotographercoloradosprings16\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/weddingengagementphotographercoloradosprings161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/>How perfect are Laura&#8217;s boots for this shoot?!\u00a0 (She had the perfect heels at Ellie and Andrew&#8217;s wedding, too.\u00a0 I never forget good shoes.)  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"weddingengagementphotographercoloradosprings12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/weddingengagementphotographercoloradosprings121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When I suggested a piggyback ride, Laura said yes&#8230;but then confessed that she has a fear of being picked up.\u00a0 I figured things would go one of two ways: either it would be HORRIBLE and we might all end up in tears, or it would be ridiculous and awesome and full of laughter.\u00a0 It went the second way.\u00a0 :)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"weddingengagementphotographercoloradosprings11\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/weddingengagementphotographercoloradosprings111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"852\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"weddingengagementphotographercoloradosprings10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/weddingengagementphotographercoloradosprings101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They totally belong in a J Crew catalog!\u00a0 (And I love Tess&#8217;s &#8220;snow beard&#8221; so much!!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3700\" title=\"snowengagementphotoshoot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_6704.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Earlier it was just a snow goatee&#8230;.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"weddingengagementphotographercoloradosprings03\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/weddingengagementphotographercoloradosprings031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tesla got off her leash for a few shots&#8230;but she soon showed us that she would much rather run in the snow than pose for pictures!\u00a0 (Which was just fine with me&#8211;she didn&#8217;t even know what perfect shots she was creating!)\u00a0 I love that it&#8217;s so cold that you can see Dan&#8217;s breath in the fourth shot!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[svgallery name=&#8221;lauradan&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are super observant, you might remember Laura from her brother Andrew&#8217;s wedding last summer!\u00a0 She was the beautiful best (wo)man, and I was so excited when she emailed and asked us if we&#8217;d be available to shoot her wedding this winter.\u00a0 I knew she would be so much fun to photograph again, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[180,233,271,59],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-colorado-springs-engagement-photographer","tag-snow","tag-studio","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","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=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}