The Talented & Beautiful: Cindy Ollig

Cindy Ollig is both a wonderful friend and colleague that I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and working with throughout the years. During wedding season, photographing the phenomenal and detailed work of The Perfect Petal is something I am always eager for! Cindy is the owner of this one of a kind, bold and beautiful boutique floral shop, where variety and design are the true spices of life. The lighthearted, metropolitan and chic styles of The Perfect Petal are not just fantastic and unique, but trendsetting as well. There you can find personal treasures, gifts for loved ones, and floral for occasions both intimate and grand. Cindy is an incredibly talented and BUSY woman, as she also owns Posh, a “sister store” of her floral shop. Posh is filled with an urban and chic style of home design that will both excite and inspire. If you’re in need of anything special or unique you simply must check out Posh located right on the famous Larimer Square in downtown Denver. I hope you like these portraits Cindy, see you soon! XoXo

Denver Senior Portrait Photography: Kaylen Kahl

Excited and ready to go for her senior portraits Kaylen Kahl was an amazing and beautiful young woman to work with for some awesome senior photographs at Standley Lake Park in Arvada, Colorado.

I had a great time with Kaylen shooting by Standley Lake, on a beautiful summer day. This athletic volleyball player did a great job looking natural and showing off her gorgeous smile! She brought a couple of colorful and fun outfits that were perfect for the shoot! I am close friends with Kaylen’s amazing step mother Elizabeth Kahl, so I absolutely loved shooting Kaylen. We tried, and I think greatly succeeded in capturing some beautiful shots that would work for her senior portraits.

Congratulations to Kaylen for graduating! You did it girl! I want to send her and her family all my love and thanks for allowing me to take these beautiful senior pictures. Good luck with everything Kaylen, I know you’re going to do great things with your future and have an amazing senior year!

Heather Allen: Table 6 Productions

Heather Allen is one of Denver’s premier wedding and event planners and the owner/president of the nationally expanding Table 6 Productions!  In fact, she has been nominated for Event Planner of the Year 2010!!  (Take a second and vote for her!)  Heather and I met about five years ago as a result of working in the same industry, but we have grown closer and closer over the years and I am proud to have her not only as a supporter of my business, but also in my life as a dear friend. It is always an honor to work with this talented woman and of course I was flattered she wanted me to take new portraits for her.  She just got this cute new haircut and it is important that she look like herself when she WINS the award!  :-)   Fingers crossed for you Heather!  And no matter what happens, keep smiling that beautiful smile of yours and know you are one of the brightest stars in the sky.

Mainfesting Your Dreams

When I was making my goals for 2010 last year, one thing I wrote down was “take photos of a national sports celebrity.”  Like most of the dreams I have imagined for myself and visualized (this part is very important!), I really had absolutely no idea how that was going to happen.  The power of the mind is a pretty amazing thing… a few months later, the job materialized and the next thing I knew I was sitting (standing) in the back of Birdman’s cherry red convertible, flying down the road taking photos of him and a beautiful woman

The message? Dream your dreams and you will give them life!  Visualize everything you WANT (not what you don’t want), and remember to have faith in your ability to manifest anything… even if you have no idea how you are going to do it.  It’s really not about how?, it’s what? that is important.

Oh and if you are wondering about all the cool effects on the photos, I got really into experimenting with Kevin Kubota’s new texture tools when I was doing my finishing work on these images and I LOVE them!