tuesday evening we displayed our work and met engaged couples at superb red carpet bridal event sponsored by the fort collins country club, mountain avenue bridal, and simply elegant wedding and event planning. only 12 vendors were invited to this event, so we were tickled to be considered. we shared a captive audience of about 50 guests with photographer dave russell (fellow pictage user and nikonian). our display was simple: a few metallic prints and albums, our signature square marketing cards (think business cards on steroids), and a slideshow. spray-painted pvc pipe from home depot and cheapo black material from the seconds bin at walmart made our fancy 'pipe & drape' display economical and easy to set-up.... and it also expands to become a large seamless paper backdrop stand inspired by this article (another macgyver trick). we will graduate to bigger and better display in due time... but we like keeping things simple right now :)

brian of piano man music and i got together recently to shoot him and his instrument, the grand piano. brian is an awesome pianist and awesme dj. he's got some awesome original stuff brewing up in his soul! while i was shooting, he was playing song after song off the top of his head. talk creative inspiration! fine music and photography go hand and hand and we enjoy working with him during weddings! here are a few of our favorite portraits using just two off-camera strobes for the creative lighting:


can you FEEL the music?


we had only short time at the church, so afterwards we heading to mcdonald's for their dollar menu. i grabbed these inside with my favorite nikon 85mm f/1.4 lens.:

we met piano man brian kane at a recent wedding and were impressed with what we heard. so we stirred up some coffee talk at a local starbucks and the creative brainstorms flowed. brian is one of the chief bootknockers at the denver chapter of the american disc jockey association and he's got the whole wedding dj 2.0 thing down pat. he's not your cheesy dj, but writes and plays his own tunes during wedding receptions.... a classy act hard to follow. we've got some creative, symbiotic ideas in the works, so stay tuned for something special.