{"id":758,"date":"2008-06-03T20:12:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T03:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=758"},"modified":"2008-06-03T20:12:52","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T03:12:52","slug":"colorado-springs-engagement-shoot-phil-and-keenan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/colorado-springs-engagement-shoot-phil-and-keenan\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Springs Engagement Shoot: Phil and Keenan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If Phil looks ever so slightly familiar (especially when he laughs), it&#8217;s because he is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog\/colorado-springs-engagement-portraits-for-meg-and-matt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meg<\/a>&#8216;s brother!  I&#8217;m excited to be shooting brother\/sister weddings this year, and we don&#8217;t have to wait long for Phil and Keenan&#8217;s&#8211;we&#8217;re photographing their wedding later this month!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Keenan and Phil are an adorable couple, and Keenan&#8217;s nervous laughter in the beginning of the shoot was totally precious.  Brides often ask me how we get so many laughing pictures, and the answer is: my dumb one-liners half the time, and nervous laughter the other half.  It can feel very odd to get all comfy\/cozy with your fiance with two photographers watching&#8230;but nervous laughter is the silver lining of that initial shyness!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We went to Garden of the Gods for their shoot, since they were hoping to get some shots with their dog Willie:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-759\" title=\"garden of the gods portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kp1.jpg\" alt=\"engagement portrait at garden of the gods\" width=\"612\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Everyone gets over the shyness and pretty soon it&#8217;s like you&#8217;ve been kissing in front of two photographers forever:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-760 aligncenter\" title=\"kissyshot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kp2.jpg\" alt=\"engagement portrait in garden of the gods, colorado\" width=\"612\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-761 aligncenter\" title=\"outdoor portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kp4.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs outdoor portrait\" width=\"512\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They had liked how Meg and Matt incorporated their love of music into their engagement shoot, so they brought along their instruments.  Fantastical&#8211;we love it when our couples bring props!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-762\" title=\"colorado engagement portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kp3.jpg\" alt=\"colorado 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-763\" title=\"engagementshoot \" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kp5.jpg\" alt=\"colorado engagement shoot instruments\" width=\"612\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thanks for a great shoot, Keenan and Phil!  We can&#8217;t wait for your wedding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Phil looks ever so slightly familiar (especially when he laughs), it&#8217;s because he is Meg&#8216;s brother! I&#8217;m excited to be shooting brother\/sister weddings this year, and we don&#8217;t have to wait long for Phil and Keenan&#8217;s&#8211;we&#8217;re photographing their wedding later this month! Keenan and Phil are an adorable couple, and Keenan&#8217;s nervous laughter in [&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],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engagement-sessions","tag-colorado-springs-engagement-photographer","tag-garden-of-the-gods"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}