{"id":741,"date":"2008-05-29T23:16:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T06:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=741"},"modified":"2008-05-29T23:16:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T06:16:41","slug":"colorado-springs-engagement-portrait-shoot-cindy-and-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/colorado-springs-engagement-portrait-shoot-cindy-and-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Springs engagement portrait shoot: Cindy and John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-744\" title=\"romance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/cindy.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs romantic engagement portrait\" width=\"612\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You might remember Cindy and John from our Real Couple of the Year wedding photography contest in February.  They were our winners, and we are so happy for them!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-743 aligncenter\" title=\"outdoor engagement portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/cindyhappy.jpg\" alt=\"outdoor engagement photo\" width=\"612\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cindy and John are a fantastic couple, and we are so glad that we were able to squeeze their engagement shoot in last weekend (even as the weather conspired against us).  Cindy just got back from her deployment, and John is about to leave on his deployment, so it wasn&#8217;t hard to catch the joy they feel being around each other!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-742 aligncenter\" title=\"engagement portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/cindy3.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs engagement portrait\" width=\"612\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(I think that might go down in history as my all-time favorite jump shot.  John, you are my hero!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-745\" title=\"laughing engagement portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/cindy1.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs laughing portrait\" width=\"512\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I love this shot of Cindy looking at John:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-746\" title=\"engagement portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/cindy2.jpg\" alt=\"colorado engagement portrait\" width=\"512\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Piggyback rides are good.  But let&#8217;s not talk about what happened when John jumped on for a ride.  That didn&#8217;t end quite so well.  :P<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-747\" title=\"engagement portrait piggyback\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/cindy4.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs engagement portrait piggyback ride\" width=\"512\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And totally mandatory for me at each engagement shoot&#8211;a detail shot of snuggling with a little bit of hazy post-processing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-748\" title=\"garden of the gods engagement shoot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/cindydetail.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs couple portrait\" width=\"512\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cindy and John, we are so excited for your wedding and look forward to photographing you again&#8211;thanks for being so fun to work with!  With such a cute couple in such amazing places (the Air Force Academy Chapel and the Cliff House in Manitou Springs), we know the results will be incredible!  We wish John luck and safety on his deployment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember Cindy and John from our Real Couple of the Year wedding photography contest in February. They were our winners, and we are so happy for them! Cindy and John are a fantastic couple, and we are so glad that we were able to squeeze their engagement shoot in last weekend (even as [&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":[180,173,130],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engagement-sessions","tag-colorado-springs-engagement-photographer","tag-garden-of-the-gods","tag-natural-light"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","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=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}