Colorado Springs Family Portraits at Garden of the Gods

The Graham Family is enjoying their first year here in Colorado Springs.  They serve our country’s military, and it was a treat to photograph their first family portraits! We love Garden of the Gods year-round, but especially in these winter months, it’s beautiful even when the rest of the city shows the effects of the season. It’s also our favorite location when family’s want to feature iconic views of our city in their photography. We primarily photograph outdoor sessions, and while you’s rightly expect the months of June through November to be busiest, we absolutely photograph outdoors year-round.

With a new deployment just beginning, we know these family portraits will help the family feel close, even when the miles are between them. We love the closeness, laughter, and fun-loving togetherness shared in their family and captured in their pictures.

Jon and I are so blessed to be in the business of family legacy.

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Jonathan Betz Photography – Colorado Springs Outdoor Family Portraits Photographer

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Erin | Cheyenne Mountain High School Senior Portraits | Class of 2017

Erin is a vivacious, free-spirited high school senior at Cheyenne Mountain High School.  She plays saxophone with the band and competes on the field hockey team.  Outside of school, she loves hiking and English horseback riding.  For her senior portraits, Erin wanted to focus on great portraits of her in natural settings with some great rocks and water and stone walls.  Her preferences led us to match her to the location of Cheyenne Cañon.  It was a great fit, and her senior portraits showcase her natural beauty in gorgeous settings in the canyon.  Enjoy our favorites from her photography session.

Erin, we wish you a great final semester of high school and with all that lies ahead for you!

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Jonathan Betz Photography – Colorado Springs High School Senior Pictures Photographer

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Skylar | Air Academy High School Senior Portraits | Class of 2017

We loved reconnecting with this family over the summer for Skylar’s senior portraits.  We first met them a few years ago when it was his older sister’s turn.  Skylar is an accomplished athlete and was especially excited to create portraits on the track.  His favorite event is the 300 hurdles.  I still smile when I think about how he also shared that he plays football for Air Academy High School “for fun.”  I’ve never heard of anyone playing competitive football “for fun!”  Skylar has big plans for his future – he’s planning for college and running track, and his career path is in aerospace engineering.

He choes our one-hour Senior Session and matched well with Monument Valley Park as his main location.  Jon really enjoyed creating dynamic track portraits at the end of the session.  Enjoy favorites from his senior photography session!

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Megan | Air Academy High School Senior Portraits | Class of 2017

Our past year has held the hardest days our family has walked.  Our business reached it’s 10th anniversary in October, yet that was significantly overshadowed by our son, Tyler, receiving his perfect and forever healing from cancer in heaven.  We prayed for a healing here so that he would still be with us now, yet we trust in and find deep comfort knowing Tyler is healed and whole and in the best place possible.  We miss him so much.  Our business certainly looked different as we journeyed with Tyler through cancer treatments.  We’re so proud of him. Because our time and attention was rightly with Tyler through his journey, our blog has been quite quiet.  We’ll begin to share sessions again, beginning with Megan.

Megan’s is a special session. We believe God creates divine intersections between families, and this family intersected with our family this summer and shares a closeness through shared journeys.  Years ago, they journeyed with their oldest daughter, Melody, as she battled cancer.  Like Tyler, against what we humanly pray for, her healing too was given perfectly in heaven. When we met Megan’s family, Tyler was in the midst of his second treatment plan.  We connected quickly in a deep way from the shared journeys we have walked.  One of the sweetest aspects we love in our business is the relationships we build with our client families. We’re invited to capture incredibly important and special milestones and a part of us too is shared in the process.

Photographing Megan’s senior portraits has been such an honor. Megan dreams big and has a heart to love and serve those around her.  Faith, family, and service are important to her.  She’s active in ROTC and volunteered with the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo for 5 years.  She aspires to study psychology and counseling hoping to address healing from PTSD when her career begins.

She chose our Senior Experience, multi-hour, multi-location session and matched well with Cheyenne Cañon, Mesa Overlook, and the Air Force Academy.  Favorites from her session are shared below.

Megan, congratulations to you for all of your hard work, accomplishments, and upcoming graduation from Air Academy High School.  You have a beautiful heart and wonderful dreams for your future.  We know your parents are so proud, and we pray you know that Melody is so very proud of you!

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Jonathan Betz Photography – High School Senior Portraits Photographer in Colorado Springs

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Dave Ramsey, Chris Brown, and Jonathan Betz Photography

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Dave Ramsey is in town with Chris Brown for their live event tonight, and we are the photography team while they are here.  We enjoyed our time at the lunch event at Johnny Martin’s Car Central earlier today and love the message they teach about financial health that brings financial peace.  We have been listeners and followers of their sound advice, so it was quite an honor to meet both of them today.  They are both down to earth, caring, and passionate about guiding families to solid financial ground.

Thank you to KRDO for being the host station for Dave Ramsey’s “The Dave Ramsey Show” and choosing us for the event coverage today.

It’s especially neat to meet these men because Lindsay is beginning to speak to the photography industry with a message on “Focusing on Your Financial Future.”  Much of that message echoes in the teachings of these guys.  Currently she’s presented at the local and state level…looking ahead to the national convention in 2018!

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Susan Bodlak - November 10, 2016 - 10:34 pm

Lindsay, you are a born speaker and presenter. Ramsey Solutions would be lucky to have you on the team!

Jonathan Betz - November 15, 2016 - 1:31 pm

The speaking isn’t specifically with Dave Ramsey and his team but to our industry of professional photographers. My message echoes much of what he teaches, and I’m excited to build up other photographers and their families by teaching solid financial practices. Thank you for your compliments, Susan!