{"id":687,"date":"2008-05-05T21:37:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T04:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=687"},"modified":"2008-05-05T21:37:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T04:37:13","slug":"manitou-springs-colorado-engagement-portraits-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/manitou-springs-colorado-engagement-portraits-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitou Springs, Colorado Engagement Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We photographed not just one adorable couple this weekend, but two!  In fact, sometimes I feel bad for the other Colorado wedding photographers, because we get all the coolest couples and that must suck for the other photographers.  :P<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday we got to photograph Courtney and Chris&#8217;s engagement portraits in Manitou Springs and Garden of the Gods.  They are getting married in a month and a half, so get ready, because Courtney is going to be a knock-out in her wedding dress!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-692 aligncenter\" title=\"courtney chris engagement portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/courtneychris5.jpg\" alt=\"manitou springs engagement portrait\" width=\"512\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-695\" title=\"courtneychris8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/courtneychris8.jpg\" alt=\"colorado engagement portrait\" width=\"612\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I loved Courtney and Chris&#8217;s outfits&#8211;another couple that coordinated very well together.  Courtney had the great idea to use layers to add interest and texture to her ensemble, which I loved!  (I&#8217;m thinking of adding an &#8220;outfit hall of fame&#8221; page to the site to give other couples\/families ideas and tips on dressing fabulously for photographs!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-693\" title=\"courtneychris6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/courtneychris6.jpg\" alt=\"manitou springs engagement portrait\" width=\"512\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-694\" title=\"courtneychris7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/courtneychris7.jpg\" alt=\"manitou springs engagement\" width=\"512\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had an amazing day for pictures at Garden of the Gods.  We are getting to have a few favorite spots that blow me away and look much more dangerous than they actually are.  ;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-688 aligncenter\" title=\"courtneychris1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/courtneychris1.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs engagement portrait\" width=\"612\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-691\" title=\"courtneychris4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/courtneychris4.jpg\" alt=\"black and white engagement picture\" width=\"612\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I love the curving lines and long shadows that Nic captured in this shot:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-689\" title=\"courtneychris2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/courtneychris2.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs garden of the gods\" width=\"612\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They are such cute jumpers!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-690\" title=\"courtneychris3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/courtneychris3.jpg\" alt=\"jumping engagement portrait\" width=\"512\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And I have to end with this shot that is so Colorado to me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/courtneychris92.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-698\" title=\"courtneychris92\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/courtneychris92.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"742\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thanks Courtney and Chris for being so wonderful and photogenic!  We are so excited to be your wedding photographers and love that we don&#8217;t have to wait long for the big day&#8211;I know it will be amazing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We photographed not just one adorable couple this weekend, but two! In fact, sometimes I feel bad for the other Colorado wedding photographers, because we get all the coolest couples and that must suck for the other photographers. :P On Saturday we got to photograph Courtney and Chris&#8217;s engagement portraits in Manitou Springs and Garden [&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":[30,79,173,172],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engagement-sessions","tag-colorado","tag-engagement-portrait","tag-garden-of-the-gods","tag-manitou-springs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","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=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}