karina & brian

we met in wintery breckenridge just in time to see the final day of the international snow sculpture championships last sunday. talk about a fun time! we enjoyed exploring the sights and color of breckenridge, a quintessential colorado mountain ski town. if you've never seen a 20-foot snow sculpture of a giant lemonade stand, then carve out your schedule to see these sculptures at least once in your life! we'll be shooting their july wedding and look forward to being apart of their special day. karina grew up in brazil and most of her family lives there, so their wedding will be a true fusion of culture and religion. we started things off in a romantic horse-drawn carriage.

then explored the town in search of fine textured backgrounds...








then paid a visit to the courthouse.


i love the cross-processing effect of this simple image with brian's button and the stairs.


using an ultra-wide nikon 12-24mm lens to capture a quick candid with an alley perspective.


karina has huge, beautiful eyes that brian claims were the same size when she was little!


a real moment.


and some relaxed kern-photo style portraits :)


here's the huge ice sculture of a lemonade stand (with a blue gel filter in my sb-800 flash).


shooting through one of the ice sculptures:


this is my favorite image of the entire shoot, which has a mushy-gushy romantic comedy feel (in a good way, of course:)