We have been photographing the Houle family for years and just love them! We’ve always been doing baby photography until the opportunity this winter to photograph their immediate family as well as Mandy’s extended family. We were at Cheyenne Mountain Resort for their photography session and really enjoyed getting to capture family memories at a time when their family continues to grow and change. We are truly honored that we continue to be the photographer for their family!
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We recently completed our winter class covering Post-Production and The Digital Darkroom and so enjoyed it! A big thank you to our participants! One of the overall themes that came from this class was strong interest in our fall workshop on the foundations of photography. It’s fantastic to know what to do to enhance images in Photoshop and how to use Photoshop to do those things that have to be done in post-production, but ultimately, Photoshop cannot make a mediocre picture great…but it can make a great picture truly fantastic. Knowing how to take a great picture in-camera is really the goal, and everyone is really excited for that class in the fall.
If you’d like to be on our contact list for our fall class on the foundations of photography and seeing and capturing light, send an e-mail to us at jon@jonathanbetz.com. We expect the class to begin sometime in October. We’d love to see you there!
As you might imagine, Garden of the Gods is one of the top requested places for portrait sessions and why not?! It’s just gorgeous there, and I never tire of the beauty throughout the entire area. And I’m so thankful that it’s a protected area in our city…otherwise, it’d likely be a golf course! No offense to golfers, but I’m glad that everyone can enjoy such a fantastic place! Jon has some favorite places he loves to take families for their pictures during their sessions, but it’s pretty amazing how much variety and opportunity are all in one place. Enjoy a whole bunch of favorites from a handful of sessions we did at Garden of the Gods during late November and December!
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This session was really fun because Lauren and I were in the same small group for our women’s study at Woodmen Valley Chapel this past fall. Being newer to Colorado Springs, they wanted to have fantastic family pictures to show the beauty of Colorado Springs, so what better place than here?
Welcome to the world, Elkan! It has been so much fun to photograph Dave and Michelle again and be a part of celebrating the birth of their first child! We photographed Dave and Michelle’s wedding on the 4th of July in 2009 and just love their family. We did an outdoor “mini-session” for maternity portraits at Cottonwood Creek Park just before he was born (on a really cold day!!) and then photographed his newborn portraits just a couple weeks after he was born. And he ended up being completely alert and awake for his whole session, which just does not happen much with newborns. He obviously is already quite interested in his world!
Congratulations again, Dave & Michelle! We’re so excited for you guys to be on this crazy and wonderful journey of parenthood!
Red Rock Canyon Open Space is a great area that many people have never been to, so it’s fun to take people to places they’ve never been in town for their family pictures! In Red Rock Canyon, you have a little feel for the red rocks similar to Garden of the Gods but it has a completely different feel and with far less people than Garden of the Gods. We love afternoon hikes through the many trails in the area, and there are great views overlooking Garden of the Gods and Colorado Springs city and beyond. Here are favorites from two late fall/early winter groupon sessions at Red Rock Canyon…
The Musacchia family moved here from Louisiana, and love LSU. They used their session as a time to tell part of their family’s story of arriving to the mountains from LA…LSU colors with mountain scenes in the background. They serve our country in the Air Force and nicknamed themselves “mountain tigers” (LSU’s mascot is the tiger, in case you didn’t know…). And we look forward to seeing them again this summer for a second session!
